The RV Lifestyle Blog

Our Most Epic RV Factory Tour Yet!

by Mike Wendland | Feb 15, 2019 | Models, People & Places, Videos

We journeyed up to Winkler, Manitoba, Canada to get a Leisure Travel Vans tour from Dean Corrigal and ended up driving out of there in a brand new 2019 Wonder Rear Twin Bed Model, which we will test out for the next month or so. We've never spent time on the road in a...

Our new RV ride: The new Wonder RTB from Leisure Travel Vans

by Mike Wendland | Feb 11, 2019 | Videos

Last night on our regular Sunday night Ask Us Anything live stream on the YouTube RV Lifestyle Channel we shared the new RV we'll be riding in for the next month or so – the Wonder RTB (for Rear Twin Beds) model from Leisure Travel Vans. Jennifer and I visited...

Driving in a Blizzard

by Mike Wendland | Feb 10, 2019 | Observations

We have officially had our fill with winter. It's time to move on – to Florida for starters. We just returned from a 1,200 mile trip from Manitoba to Michigan and experienced snow and sub-zero temperatures the entire route. I thought I had seen blizzards...

How they are built: The Coachmen Galleria Class B campervan

by Mike Wendland | Feb 7, 2019 | Models

We continue our video series visiting various RV manufacturing facilities around North America by traveling to Middlebury, Indiana near Elkhart to see how the new Coachmen Galleria Class B RVs are built. We visited on the coldest day Northern Indiana has experienced...

Jennifer’s RV Tip: Making campfire donuts

by Mike Wendland | Feb 4, 2019 | Jennifer Wendland

When we went camping last summer near Sliver Lake Sand Dunes in northern Michigan, we stayed at a family friendly campground with two of our three grown kids and their spouses, along with four of our eight grandchildren. It was not the type of place we normally camp,...

Groundhog Day – a great excuse for an RV trip

by Mike Wendland | Feb 2, 2019 | People & Places

Happy Groundhog Day, everyone! For this auspicious day, I thought I'd dig out one of our favorite stories from our video vault: A visit Jennifer and I made to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania several years ago to witness the annual spectacle of a groundhog named Phil...

Off the Beaten Path” The Sound of Music in Vermont

by Mike Wendland | Feb 1, 2019 | Tom and Patti Burkett

Do you remember that scene when Maria runs across the mountain meadow singing “the hills are alive?” We never knew the Sound of Music was based on a true story. When the von Trapps left Austria in 1939, they were assisted by their family priest...