This week on the Rv podcast.
Off grid Rv living in the desert we'll
learn how 1 rv
has found his own piece of paradise in
Arizona. And the latest on the brutal knife
attack on an elderly Rv couple at a
Nebraska arrest area that left the husband dead
of the wife fighting for her life.
There are a lot of people who are
very disappointed. About rising
internet costs for on the go rv viewers.
All, this plus the Rv news of the
week and your questions,
coming up in episode 05:03
of the Rv podcast.
Hello, everybody. I'm Mike Went Lemon. This just
my lifelong traveling companion and bride, Jennifer. Hello,
mister Wright.
Just a quick reminder that this podcast they're
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So it's a delight to be with you,
and this is gonna be another very busy
week for us,
starting
with the announcement of our latest Rv lifestyle
travel guide ebook,
our 20 third,
and this 1 is called the ultimate Rv
guide to Yosemite National park. I feel like
I should have. Something that's throw in the
air? Or I could
yeah.
Something. Yeah. Can you believe...
I mean,
23 books. Did you ever envision that when
we started this over a dozen years ago?
No. I never did imagine that. But I
think it's exciting. And, just great reviews. We
thank those of you who who've have been
reading it since we announced it on Sunday
night on our, Ask us anything program.
We are very excited about this books. It's
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This offers everything you need for an incredible
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Rv enthusiasts or if this is the first
time,
this guide will help you make the most
of your visit,
we are really excited about that.
And then,
this weekend, starting Saturday. Yeah. We're gonna release
our latest Rv review series.
This time looking at 1 of the fastest
growing segments of the motor home industry. The
small class a.
These have been incredibly pal filler in recent
years with most rv ears wanting more room
or just not too much room.
Small Rv are under 30 feet long. And
we just finished finished testing 3 representative models.
Starting Saturday, June 20 ninth we'll release them.
Back to back. We'll review the thor axis
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The Win Vista National Parks edition Sunday, June
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So what are we gonna review next? We're
going to review... We're gonna be testing 3
new class c models. In fact, as you
read this? Oh it be camping the same
spot in the same campground, so the reviews
are done in similar surroundings.
We do our reviews a little differently than
most youtubers that you see reviewing Rv.
Instead of, you know, 15 minutes on a
dealer lot or at an Rv show Jen
and I actually drive them.
We camp
overnight in them.
And then based on experience,
we share our thoughts. On
experience based on real use.
So we have bunch more reviews in the
planning stage and 1 of the benefits of
having our home base here in Southwest, Michigan
is that were just a short drive from
Elk carte, Indiana. The Rv capital of the
world
and we'll be checking out a lot of
new models in the weeks ahead, and we'll
be visiting various manufacturers and try to give
you an early peak at what's it's coming
for 20
25.
Now besides the Class C's, we have more
class b's to show you and some slightly
larger camper van known as b plus models.
So stay tuned.
Yep.
If you have a comment or a question
or you have a particular Rv you'd like
us to review,
send it to us in a private email,
Mike and jen at rv lifestyle dot com.
Okay. We're gonna take a quick break and
when we come back, we've got Wendy Boy
and the social media Rv buzz. Stay with
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Welcome back and now for the social media
buzz.
Wendy Boy is our social media guru. She
kinda keeps everybody on track and coordinates our
team of moderators,
and she reports on all of the hot
issues
most talked about over the past week on
social media in our Rv lifestyle community group
and in our Rv lifestyle Facebook group. Here's
Wendy. Hi, everybody. Over in our Rv lifestyle
communities general discussion space. We had a recent
post from Christy and Gary, and they were
getting their very first Rv. And as you
can imagine, they were super excited,
but They had been reading some Facebook post
where people are sharing horror stories. So they
were also getting really nervous and finding themselves
flip flap between super excited and super nervous
And so they asked the group if you
could give us 1 piece of advice that
you truly wish someone had given you before
you chose this lifestyle, what would it be?
And they got some great
tips here.
Bob and Ro. They said make sure you
keep your sense of humor and your patience
and in the beginning, there's a learning curve,
but it's gonna be great. Susie suzanne, she
suggested that they take a shake down trip
really close to home maybe even in their
own driveway.
Learn their rig, learn how things work, make
some lists for hooking up, unhook, setting up,
you know, tearing down just to gain their
confidence.
In Brenda and Mark, they said, remember there's
gonna be good days and there's gonna be
bad days, but the bad days can be
fixed. And they suggested that Christy and Gary
just keep their rig while paint, have those
checklists, pack some tools,
and not be afraid to ask for help.
So great discussion later. Also in the communities
general discussion space, greg,
with very hot weather, the our air conditioning
in our Rv is seldom keeping up. What
can I do? And boy, It sure has
been hot out. Hasn't it in much of
the country. So this Scott people talking and
there were some good tips here. Mark, he
suggested
taking the inside cover off the air conditioner
and putting duct tape over all the seams.
She said manufacturing can be really sloppy. And
when he did this, it made a big
difference, and he also suggested getting some foil
to put over the outside windows to help
with the heat,
And Richard, he installed AW0
silence on his 2 acs and he said
not only is it cooler inside. It's also
quieter.
And, Randall, he had a previous travel trailer
where he used a dehumidifier in the hot
days, and he said it made a huge
difference. So there's a couple of the good
tips that were in that post.
And then over on our Rv lifestyle Facebook
group, we had a post from Kay, and
she said getting ready to stack the camper
what are some must haves and some tips,
tricks and hacks.
And this was a really fun 1 to
read because there just were a lot of
things that put people shared, you know, some
you had your joe stir who said, y.
What do you need? You need to bring
your alcohol.
But then there were things like those items
that you need when camping that you might
forget like can opener or a fly water,
maybe a flashlight, bug spray, lighter match.
And then there were also those things that
you should have for your safety.
Like a fire ex,
some basic tools, first aid kit.
And then are things that are just helpful.
Like, maybe a nice rug for outside your
rig or a portable and rechargeable vacuum cleaner
or even a ice maker if you have
room.
And then there were these hacks that were
fun to read.
1 of them was from Ginny. She suggested
getting a shower cap app and putting that
over the smoke arm in the Rv kitchen.
She says she puts that shower over a
smoke alarm and then it doesn't go off
when she cooks. And if she doesn't use
it, the alarm goes off when she cooks.
And also tied to the kitchen was 1
from,
1 about the stove, and it had to
do with putting a pizza stone
inside your stove, and that was from Lisa.
She said it just really helps if you're
gonna be cooking while you're out there rv
being, it helps to keep things from burning
and maintain a steady temperature. So those were
2 of the hacks that were very helpful.
And this for me this week, I'm Wendy
Bo, and I'll see you over in the
Rv life's style community or Facebook group? Well,
man, they really had to use those air
conditioners that, Wendy talked about
this this past week. Yeah. That's so good
sharing about how to keep your Rv cool
when it's so hot outside. So people
different things that they do to under are.
When the mid section and the northern plains
all the way to the East coast last
week and crazy weather this early in the
summer.
And also, you can't go wrong for a
newbie.
You know when they say hell, what do
I need to know because experienced our ears
wanna share.
The things that they have learn the things
that they've forgotten when they take off, remind
you about those checklists. Yep. And and if
you wanna be a part of all that,
we urge you to join our Rv lifestyle
community group, and it's,
community
dot rv lifestyle dot com. You will find
a very friendly
warm welcoming
helpful group
and we would love to have you be
a part of that group with us. Again,
it's community dot rv b lifestyle dot com.
Alright. When we come back, we're gonna take
you to Mo mojave County,
Arizona in the middle of the desert where
we met an Rv
who is building an off grid Rv
paradise out there for himself, and we'll show
you how he's doing it and talk about
it. In our discussion of the week coming
up after this.
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Welcome back time now for our discussion of
the week.
Not long ago, during a trip to Arizona,
we met an Rv nick Eric Ja,
who is transforming
5 acre 5 acre parcel of land he
bought in the Arizona desert into an off
grid paradise.
He showed us how he's doing it,
drawing power from the sun, making a garden,
turning 2 old shipping containers into an office,
all while living, in his travel trailer. Now,
Eric is a city person. He grew up
in detroit,
lived in New York for a long time
and then took a job as a salesman
for a land development company based in Las
Vegas,
And he liked this land so much He
bought 5 acres for himself.
It's about an hour or a little more
nat
from
Las Vegas, Nevada, in the middle of the
desert.
And Eric says he is learning as he
goes, and he says that if he can
do it, anyone can.
And we got him to sit down and
have a discussion and end tour
of this off grid paradise that he's making
right out there in the middle of the
desert. Here's Eric.
I'm a few miles off, route 66
in middle of Mojave County, Arizona. In the
desert,
And I've come to visit Eric Gary is
a guy of interviewed before. He part of
a land up with the company out in
the west.
And
what I wanna talk to him is about
living off the grid in the desert on
our vlan.
This
standing in front of his small little 20
foot mighty light trailer where he has been
living, But he's doing so much more. Here
he comes now. He's
pulling up into his red
4 months.
We're in a cowboy I hat. Hi, Eric.
Hey, Mike. How are you? Dis everybody to
you, man, and thank you for making some
time to talk on the the podcast about
living in your own Rv land in the
desert. And I know you have... This is
a working in progress that we're at.
You are... You've been staying in your in
your tow.
How long have you been out here? I've
been going... I've been out here for a
year and a half now,
staying in my mighty light, and Yeah. It
served its purpose.
I have hook ups and
you know, it's a work in progress. Now
we should point out that you are off
grid. We say you have hook ups, but
you put in a a septic field.
So you have sewer.
But I thought we could
have you show and tell because we are
on a podcast.
All about some of the other stuff that
you've built.
And are in the process of building. And
as I look around, I see,
some containers,
shipping containers.
You have 2,
and you have plans for a third. What
are you gonna do with shipping containers? Yeah.
Absolutely Mike. So, this has always been a
dream of mine, and I am actually building
a container home,
we have,
my rooftop deck. We have
a garage, living room, bedroom.
As well as,
an office space that we're doing.
I have a standalone
luxury bathroom,
all running on solar,
How much solar do you do you need
to be pretty much self sufficient off the
grid? Well, with 300 and Think, 38 days
of sun's sunshine out here,
solar is the perfect solution. For the solar
system I have, you know, very robust, and,
I like to say it's lean and mean.
You know, I can run my star length,
my bathroom, my water pumps, my heaters,
cement mixer, all of these things were being,
you know, utilizing 1 little system. Now what
is it about the desert that has so
captivated you enough to build an off grid
ranch out here? Well,
the peace and quiet number 1. You know?
I mean, if you if if you just
come out here in the morning or it
it actually doesn't matter what time of day.
I mean, it's just There's a calm about
the desert that you just can't find anywhere
else. You know, you have mountain views, 360
degree
views around
the sunsets, you know, every night. It's a
different show. You know, to go out there
and I put on my deck and you
know, see that's the sunset. It's just
amazing. Let me talk about a couple of
things.
You have Star Link. How does Star link
work for the internet. Start travels with it
not working? Star link is phenomenal out here.
You know, III work from here as much
as I can and the only... Way I
can do that is with my star link.
So what do you what do you do
about water out here. Let's talk a little
bit more about how you've been able to
pull this all the together? Yeah. That that's
a that's a great question. So, water was
1 of my concerns, you know, initially, and
then, you know, I have learned because I'm
a city guy.
I have learned
to do when everybody else does out here.
I have a 2500
gallon water tank.
I choose to have my water delivered.
It's about 200 dollars for 2000
gallons of of pot water. How long will
that last? Well,
my first try. It lasted over a year
of me just coming out on the weekends.
Really Absolutely. Absolutely. And it... And you don't
have to take real quick showers? Nope.
That's for sure. Yeah that's for sure. Yeah
how do you keep that much water from
spoiling?
You know, they're special tanks, the water does
not go bad. You don't have to put
any chemicals into the the water. And
you know, if as long as you're using
it. I mean, it's gonna stay stay stay
good in that tank for probably 2 years,
3 years. And you were timing a little
while ago about it something that you're you
have coming that will actually pull water out
of this desert area.
Yeah. That's a a great new project coming
out of Scottsdale, Arizona, it's called hydro panels.
They look like a solar panel. They put
1
unit produces enough drinking water for 2 individuals
to to survive on and live on. Like
that crust.
3000 dollars.
Really? That's correct. And yes. Totally sustainable.
Yeah. Yeah. It's... Again and like I said
they're made right here in the Usa, out
of Scottsdale, Arizona. Alright. So we saw the
water problem.
What I wanted talk about is you... You
have in this bathroom in shower. You got
all that gray water. You
obviously rec circulate that. How what how what
does that use for? Well, you know, water
is such a valuable resource in the desert.
That we want to make sure that we're
recycling it. So
all my gray,
from my systems
goes into 55 gallon, drum we have buried
in the ground,
which I can use for, you know, whether
it's washing,
you know, my Atv or
like, gardening and flowers
Let's take a quick look at that
at this bathroom. It is a... As I
look at it, it looks like
looks like a shed. Was in the size
of it is,
it's about 10 by 08:10 by 8, And
it's a big door with a lock on
it. And as we walk inside,
there is a glass shower,
full shower, hot water. Right? I saw the
propane tanks throughout it?
He's turning on the water out pump, and
it's lots of pressure,
a window and the side,
that cabinet,
a real flush toilet.
It goes into a septic field. Yeah. You
put a septic field in for up to
a 3 bedroom miles house Right? Yeah. 3
4 bedroom mile. So this is pretty good.
Now, this gray water that comes from the
shower. Is that gonna be used for your
garden?
It's gonna be used for some of the
gardening.
Here is 1 of these tanks. This one's
a hundred gallon tank. This is 500. We're
gonna be replacing the water tote here.
Okay. This is gonna be the permanent
water solution for the bathroom unit.
And we're gonna take this 300 gallon tote,
and we're actually gonna put that over by
the garden
with its own solar system and drip system
on a solar timer.
So when I'm in Las Vegas,
my plants will continue to
be watered and taken care of. And this
this black tank here will will be...
What will this be used for? This is
gonna be, for my shower and bathroom unit.
Okay. And this is a tote that you
can you can throw up on a pickup,
I guess and move over. Exactly. And this
will this will do the the,
this will do the garden.
While we're right here here is
his outdoor,
battery and power center,
all the plumbing is in. I'm looking at
lots of the lines running.
A lithium battery.
And I wonder if it's a solar show.
I'm looking here was
2000 watt inverter,
And his solar charge controllers says show how
much you're getting to there now?
Charge current 8.4 amps, hundred and 20 watts.
Hundred and 20 watts coming right now through
those solar panels. That's gonna charge this
life pull 4
260
amp hour or lithium battery that you have.
Water pumps
all set for all of your stuff. Correct.
And it's hard to believe how you have
developed all of this. Up on the top,
I'm not gonna go up there, but up
on the top of the
the storage container you've built a little observation
deck. Yes. This was the crown jewel for
me. And what are you gonna... I would
imagine that's a great place to have a
couple coffee in the morning. Cup coffee in
the morning and the survey in the evening
lot that sun goes down. But, you know,
most people are 1 I should say 1
of the reasons everybody comes out here for
these views and having a deck to enjoy
the view was very, very important to me.
And the in the background
is the
is the big... Is the main water tank,
which is the 2500 gallon. Correct. Correct last
fair. And I... We have to go back
and take a look at your garden.
There is a small garden. Now,
we live in a really nice climate out
here. But tell me about
what you expect to grow, and,
you were saying back and you through your
camera system, you can actually
activate the the drip and the irrigation? Yes.
So we're gonna do a solar system You
know, as you can see, I do not
have a green thumb.
So last year, our last summer,
I threw a bunch of seats out here
just to see what would happen. Was watering
it once a week. And everything grew like
crazy.
The peak of summer,
watering it once a week, really didn't work,
So everything did die eye unfortunately, but, the
fact is everything will flourish out here as
long as there's water. So we are gonna
be taking that 300 gallon tote and, have
a drip system running on solar and a
timer.
So it's gonna water all the plants and
and vegetables in the morning and that night
when I'm in Las Vegas.
It's pretty neat. And and there's quite a
community developing out there around Eric, and,
this is perfect lead into our commercial from,
our, larry Eric land company, which is sponsoring
this part of the Rv podcast, but
really nice out there. And we do? Yeah.
I I know... I mean, we've always liked
the desert,
but to actually be able to stay in
it for a long period of time. It
is so peaceful. And so beautiful.
And that little parcel of the land is
a as Eric said is a is a
little higher than most of the desert, so
it doesn't get quite so warm actually, it
was cooler out there last week than it
was here in in Southwest Michigan.
Alright. When we come back. Right after this
message about
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Welcome back, and now it's time for the
Rv news of the week. And
we've got a very tragic story to open
with.
An the Rv couple was staffed,
2 days into an Rv trip. To visit
their son in the West Coast,
and this happened in vault places Nebraska.
It was a failed robbery
and they had stopped at a rest area
along West brown
I 80
near Grand Island
in Nebraska.
They're from Missouri,
they've been married 46 years they were on
their first Rv trip since the pandemic. And
expecting the drive to Portland, Oregon to take
3 days,
but on day 2, around 7 in the
morning, Since last Wednesday,
they were attacked.
Gary Weaver, 72 died from stab wounds
and his wife, Mary Weaver 71
is hospitalized and now stable condition.
Witnesses
heard their attacker demand the keys to their
jeep, which they they were towing.
And then this 22 year old man allegedly
went into the Rv
and stabbed Gary,
and then Mary.
And this was all caught, much of it
on a trucker dashcam cam in the rest
area.
Now it wasn't clear if the weaver spent
the night at the rest area as many
of us do on long drives,
but since this attack happened at 7AM, I
I wouldn't be. Surprise if if they did.
And the 22 year old fled after stabbing
them and led police on a chase
before being caught.
Some 20 miles away with the help of
a police dog.
The weaver... They've traveled all over the country
in their Rv
according to their daughter.
Our hearts go out to the Weaver family.
No. Wisconsin, another big story,
and, boy, this is something
I never thought I'd see.
Wisconsin Department of Natural resources is telling people
not
to harvest the Sa aca.
At the state parks in a press release
after receiving numerous reports of people collecting these
rather gross looking Red eyed insects.
At big foot beach state park. Why at
earth would people be
harvesting them? This is the year the Sa
aca, a cup apocalypse,
record brew emerging in parts of the country
and many as 1 point fell 5000000 Sa
per acre at some places. And brew
13, which emerges once every 17 years is
the Sa aca brew in Wisconsin,
but why would people harvest them? Well, rumor
has it Sa aca do have a high
nutritional values So, you know, maybe people are
gathering these bugs for pet birds or reptile.
But the Wisconsin Dnr
used the word harvest.
And I'd really like to think people are
not eating them, though they are safe for
human consumption. You know, either way, it should
be common knowledge
that you can't take plants or wildlife out
of state parks, and wildlife
does include insects.
So
we interviewed a Sa k expert earlier this
year and learned a lot of interesting things
about this unusual bug. We'll we'll put a
link to it in the in the show
notes for this episode. You can find out
show notes always at rv lifestyle dot com
slash podcast, but don't you dare try which
see or sugar me adding Sa
I bet there probably nutritional good and not
a lot of calories in them. I would
think they'd be grateful that people were picking
them up health clean in them up because
as I understand that they get pretty thick
and stinky and... I don't know. But, I
mean, rules are rules. Rules are rules.
But
don't harvest ci aca for you too
Well, this is that time of the year
when wildfires start to,
become,
pretty commonplace in parts of the Southwest and
we wanna remind everybody to make sure
you are closely following warnings
and weather reports as you out there camping.
There's been a bunch of fires already. The
needles fire burned at least 200 acres
in Southern California along the Arizona border causing
evacuation last week.
Fire restrictions are now in place for the
Grand Canyon national park,
and a fire north of Sacramento in Ka
County burned about 20000 acres was near the
east park reservoir campground out there.
In New Mexico,
the Fbi is offering a 10000 dollar reward
for information by whoever was responsible for starting
2 wire fires,
the south fork fire and the salt fire
both in the southern part of the state,
and they killed 2 people and destroyed hundreds
of homes.
New Mexico campground round, the River ranch Rv
park escape the fire, but then,
they suffered a flash blood caused in part
by the fire destroying vegetation followed by heavy
rains.
Our viewers of the water, by the way,
came into that campground so fast. So powerfully.
It moved propane.
It turned over heavy 15000 pound Rv,
left 3 inches of mud in the campground
laundry room in Bath house.
Do you know that about 87
percent of all the wildfires are caused by
people
and many of whom
we're camping at the time.
Nick was about a year ago. We interviewed
an expert who gave us tips and what
all of us can do to real due
the chance of starting a wildfire and
we will we will find that and put
a link to it in the show notes.
So check that out. But speaking of fire,
some firefight fighting. Let's end on kind of
a happy note. This was a pretty fun
story.
Did you see the picture of Archie, the
cat? He was stuck in a tree at
Grand Canyon National Park, making the rounds over
the weekend?
The black and white spotted cat was discovered
stuck in a tree near the math or
campground ground and the south rim.
His front and back caused dangling over a
pine tree limb 15 feet in the air
with a sad and resigned expression on his
face.
Firefighters
came to his rescue with the help of
a ladder they rescued the poor critter. You
really need to look at that picture pictures
so you're gonna appreciate his little face. And
you'll find it rv lifestyle dot com slash
podcast.
They did find his owners by. That's good.
Yeah. While it turned out the 2 year
old cat lived in a residential. Area near
the campground, not at an rv. It was
still a great reminder for our viewers to
make sure you have the tools you need
to make camping
with a cat successful. Like, a good lock.
Keep them from going that side.
Alright.
We're gonna take quick break, and we've got,
Rv questions the week. And Mike and Chen
Rv story time coming up. Right after this.
When we're asked, what's the most important modification
we made to our Rv. It's an easy
answer. Battle borne batteries. Battle borne batteries are
quality safe, reliable lithium batteries
that allow us to stay out there off
the grid longer.
Lithium batteries charge faster They charge fuller they're
longer lasting their maintenance free, and battle borne
batteries are protected by a 10 year guarantee.
Now in our case, they just dropped into
the existing Ag g batteries that we have,
and they'll probably be the same on your
rig too.
Valve battery experts can get those in your
rig just like they dead with ours. They
can also match you up with the right
cabling, the inverter, the charger, the solar controller
everything.
Jennifer
swear by our battle borne batteries, they allow
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about, go to rv lifestyle dot com slash
lithium. Rv lifestyle dot com slash lithium.
Welcome back everybody time now for our Rv
question of the week. You got the question.
I do. We have been using T Mobile
unlimited 50 dollars a month home planned in
our Rv as we travel.
I just heard that they are stopping this
plan that it will now cost us a
hundred and 60 a month. Is this true?
And what can we do about it? And
that question comes from Nicola.
And yes,
It is true,
and there's nothing you can do about. I
mean,
Demo mobile
will tell you that they never meant that
it's 50 dollar a month home plan,
some people paid 60 dollars a month for
it.
To be used by Rv years or no.
Although indeed, many of them like Hu michele
have been doing so. And without any problem.
But that plan
is only supposed to be for those who
are using it in... Is for stationary use
at a home.
Our ears found, they can take along that
hotspot spot and they get unlimited data and
it was really a pretty good deal. 50
bucks a month.
But that is all all being done away
with. The home plan will now,
or soon will. It's still kinda working in
many spots. It will work only at home
And if you wanna take it with you,
you're gonna have to enroll in a new
plan called the Away plan,
which you'd like you say,
is a hundred and 60 a up.
And now they announced this back in April,
and it was supposed to take effect in
May and there were some technical problems or
something and it didn't take effect and now
T Mobile only says, I looked at their
website coming soon.
But the bottom line is that any day
now, you're
mobile use of the old home plan will
be blocked.
You still can use the home plan,
but they are going to be a lot
of very disappointed Rv like Mikhail because many
of you were using that unlimited home plan
for your Rv.
And this is the nature of Internet access
for our years.
1 thing you can count on is whatever
price you have now, you will have to
pay more for.
It's expensive. It's getting more so,
and it's not just T Mobile that's causing
a lot of people to be very disappointed
right now. Star
is disappointing a lot of our views.
I don't know if you heard that Son
announced a a while back. They have a
new program
using something called a mini dish antenna. It's
it's pretty cool. It's actually it's very it's
small, small enough to fit in a backpack.
And
it's it's meant for mobile use or for
people outside of their their fixed locations,
and it was supposed to start sometime this
summer.
Still hasn't quite started. We don't know when.
When they first announced this people got so
excited because at 30 bucks a month,
this new mini rome plan,
it's probably the best deal we ever heard
about. Starbucks. Start is it's awesome.
But now we have seen some of the
details of that plan. And it's not so
awesome.
A lot of disappointment.
For 1,
the mini dish equipment
is is gonna cost 599
dollars. That's a hundred bucks more than the
standard dish dishes and antenna that they have.
And that 30 dollars a month service
has a lot of catches in it. First
of all, limited data,
there are speed caps
and there are lots of restrictions. In fact,
the 30 dollars per month mini room data
plan
is only available as an add on For
existing 120
dollar per month Star Link
residential customers.
They pay a hundred and 20 bucks for
that for residential service
and they can get the mini days mini
plan for an extra 30 so the total
costs end up being a hundred and 50
bucks a month.
Now, Elon Musk has said that he wants
his star link to be more affordable,
and this new plan sure doesn't seem to
fit that goal. Doesn't. No. It doesn't
somebody at Star link isn't listening to the
boss
or maybe the boss is just blowing smoke.
I don't know. But
you know, the the reality is is that
it's gonna cost you about a hundred and
50 bucks a month. Give or take
for whatever kind... If you want reliable Internet,
it's gonna take it. It's gonna cost you
that much. And you can also be sure
it's gonna go higher
and they're always changing the details.
You have a question for us. We'd love
to answer our email addresses, Mike and Jen.
At rv lifestyle dot com.
Alright.
Story time with Mike and jen.
Well, we all make mistakes, and we all
learn from mistakes. This week, I share 1
of my most embarrassing mistakes. I can't believe
you were ever embarrassed.
We were at
Glacier National Park, and we were holding 1
of our gatherings,
and we were camped at the chewing Black
bone Rv park. That's on the black feet
reservation, the western end of the park. And
on the last evening of her gathering,
the tribe came to visit us. The chiefs
welcomed us personally, and then the tribe treated
us to an evening of music and tribal
dancing, and it was awesome.
It it it was so much fun.
And at the end of their dancing and
drumming
demonstration,
and the performers
all of them in native dress, complete with
head dresses,
grabbed all of us campers that came grabbed
all by the hand and brought us into
a huge circle to participate,
in the final dance with them.
Here's a little bit of what it was
like.
I wish I captured this embarrassing moment but
it happened after I turned off the camera,
but here here's what the... This part was
like.
So anyway, as this dance reached its end,
I turned off the camera, but is at
the height, the drumming and the music, we
all started to move around in a circle
and then we were gonna go move forward
and back together everybody holding hands and that's
when it happened. As we started to move
forward,
Jennifer
suddenly
fell.
She disappeared.
1 of her feet
dropped into a very deep
gop hole and everything stopped.
Loud
gas was heard as the dramas and the
chanting when suddenly silent. Every eye was on
Jennifer,
who had 1 leg knee deep the go
for hole. You you could have heard a
pin drop as 1 second pass and 2
then 3,
or she had a puzzled look on her
face, was she in pain, had she broken
a bone suffered to brain.
But then
as if The hand of God reached down.
She suddenly
would jumped up and
there she was
looking at everybody.
I was aware that suddenly, I had become
the focus of everyone.
I just gave a big smile and shrugged.
And, luckily, I didn't get hurt.
And then the drumming and the chanting be
resumed almost as if nothing had happened.
I'm sure I was blushing.
So what's the lesson I learned from my
embarrassing moment,
the watch where you step. And if you
stumble and fall, get right back up, and
keep smiling if it's possible to get right
back up again, and the show always goes
down, and you might be part of the
show unintentionally.
But you know what? That's
That's really good
a good lesson for life, you know, just...
We're all gonna stumble and fall, so get
up,
keep smiling
and go on. The show goes on. But
at that campground, there were so many gop
holes. They were. There were tons of them,
and when you're
forward written backwards dancing rounded in circles and
I zeta. Grateful sold that I didn't
hurt myself. When I stepped in that hole.
But it was so funny. There was just
this
Everything stopped. And everybody, had looked at it,
and she gets out and this you know,
big grand. You've seen her big grand. And
and then everybody... Okay. Whatever
went right back to. Yeah. Alright. It's our
story of the week.
You got a comment. You got a question,
send them to us. We love to get
them mike jen at rv lifestyle dot com.
And that's it for this week. We will
be back with another podcast.
Next week, and we can't wait to see
you then. Thank you guys so much for
watching. Happy trails.