RV LIFE Podcast
The RV LIFE Podcast, created by one of the premier companies in the RV industry, is for the RV Community with a mission to Educate, Entertain and Explore the RV Lifestyle. The Podcast will explore all things RV Life: living, working, exploring, learning. With host Patti Hunt, full time RVers, content creators, educators and explorers.
RV LIFE Podcast
Creating Your Bucket List: Unforgettable Adventures and Achieving Your Bucket List
Imagine crossing off attending the Albuqurque Balloon Fiesta or an NFL draft from your bucket list while living the RV LIFE. Today we are live at the Xscapers compound at the Albuqurque Balloon Fiesta talking about how to create, accomplish and celebrate your bucket list.
We've been embracing the open road and checking off bucket list items, from exhilarating adventures to serene escapes. And guess what? It's never too late to start creating your own bucket list and making the most of life.
Ever wondered how to juggle life on the road and still make time for that Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta you've always dreamed of attending? We share our experiences and offer some invaluable advice on planning for such events. We also delve into an interesting discussion sparked off by Tom's question of the week: How many miles should one drive when RVing? As we answer this and many more queries, we hope to inspire you to take the leap and embrace the RV life, with its challenges, its freedom, and its countless unforgettable moments.
On our bucket list is to follow the fall colors, down the east coast, watching the leaves change colors, we will follow Spacious Skies Campgrounds Fall Color Trail Itinerary. https://spaciousskiescampgrounds.com/2023-fall-color-trail/
Join us as we unravel our stories of overcoming the challenges of setting up a podcast, turning down a television series that didn't align with our values, and continuously pursuing our bucket list while embracing the unexpected surprises on our journey. Along the way, we've learned to slow down, savor moments, and celebrate our accomplishments. So, whether you're an experienced RVer, just getting started, or dreaming of hitting the road someday, we hope our adventures, experiences, and lessons learned inspire you to live life to the fullest and enthusiastically chase after your bucket list!
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Do you have a bucket list? This is the RV Life Podcast. I'm Dan Hunt with my incredible wife, paddy. We are here live at the Escapies Compound at the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, and what a compound this is. Now they are all drinking and Paddy and I are not. I mean, you know, all of us should have a bucket list. I have a bucket list and in the last two and a half years that Paddy and I have been RVing, I have checked off about half of the things in my bucket list. We rolled into Nevada, older City, nevada, and they let me drive a train, a locomotive, a Union Pacific locomotive. So how cool is that? So the question that we have is do you have a bucket list item and have you written them down?
Speaker 2:I see, a lot of head shaking bells. We're going to actually ask that question and have you answer it in just a few minutes. As Dan and I said, we have been full-time for over two and a half years and we have done a lot, had a lot of incredible experiences and for me, the highlight is meeting people, community, like the people here at the Escapies Compound is Dan lovingly named it.
Speaker 1:You know. I'm going to just point out that I think a lot of the people here do have a bucket list, because somebody in your family said I want to go to the Albuquerque Balloon yesterday and I want to watch these balloons take off from the field, right? Over there and land right on top of us, like they've done at Coop Bands here.
Speaker 1:So I think you do have bucket list items, one of the things that we teach in some of the lectures that we do is how to really take a hold of those bucket list items and write them down and use them as kind of like a goal setting throughout your week or year. Now that sound means it's time for today's fun fact. Our fun fact is brought to you by Open Roads Resort, with four great locations in Montana, utah and Texas.
Speaker 2:And we are so excited. We were supposed to go to Montana and Utah, to these amazing locations. We were supposed to do that this summer. Unfortunately, plans changed. But when we leave here, we're actually going to their Texas location, which is Dallas, ne, and it's right outside of Dallas, obviously, and they have amazing views, great amenities and they're close to everything that you want to get to in and around Dallas. So let's get to the fun fact. So, for today, the reasons people create bucket lists is number one, to get themselves focused so they can figure out what it is they really want, and number two, to motivate them to get to those dreams that they have on their bucket list. So these are the main reasons that people do create a bucket list, and a lot of you were shaking your head. We talked about a bucket list. We talked about it on tonight. Well, maybe tomorrow because you've been drinking, but tomorrow when you get up, how about you create those bucket lists?
Speaker 1:Now I talked about this in the open. Do you write down your bucket list items? Patty and I clearly write down our bucket list items and then we make little vision boards out of them so we can actually think about them and talk about them. And when we get into an argument I can just point to the vision board and say but I said I wanted to do that.
Speaker 2:It cost too much money. There have been some crazy things left to say.
Speaker 1:So let me see my show of hands. I'm going to say 50 people in the audience. We are outside, just so people know there's a lot of sounds coming through. Actually, a pump truck just jumped across. Oh, a stool bus.
Speaker 3:Oh, a stool, bus.
Speaker 1:We've got comedians here tonight too, and we don't only have just one pump out truck coming by, we've got another one too. So real quick, by show of hands. How many people in this audience of this unscientific survey, how many people in this audience have a bucket list? That's half how many people in the world, less than half.
Speaker 2:We both said something totally different. We're going to count after. We're going to get this counted.
Speaker 1:Live television, live radio. So some people have now the people that did raise their hand. How many of you actually write down those bucket list items and share them with your family, spouse, friends?
Speaker 2:Two, so we're going to talk about that and change that number today.
Speaker 1:Oh, you want to go to break it.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Okay, this is my incredible wife who keeps me on track. Patty Hunt and we are going to take a quick break and we'll be back right after this.
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Speaker 1:It just works. Music. You're listening to the RV Life Podcast. I'm Dan Hunt with my incredible wife, Patty Hunt. We are live at the Escapies Compound at the Albuquerque Balloon Piesta Not a balloon in the sky today because, well, it was a little bit windy and cold this morning.
Speaker 2:So a couple of them got up. They actually flew today. You just left, Rowan I just got to be honest here. They did fly, but how many people saw the balloons today? See you all in a little bit slow, okay.
Speaker 1:Well, when I went to the pilot briefing yesterday afternoon, they said it's going to be a red flag tomorrow morning, so go ahead and sleep in. That's what I did. This is the part of the show where I usually edify our guests, and today I'm going to edify you guys right here. Together, we travel hundreds of thousands of miles a year. We live at Campgrounds, cracker Barrels, walmart and BLM Land. We spend hundreds of dollars on gasoline and diesel and we get our mail a few days later. Then it's delivered. We have a great life and we're living every minute of it, and we are a part of the greatest community of people in the US Our beer.
Speaker 2:And, as Dan said, we're doing things very differently today, and this is where we would welcome our guests, and we want to welcome all of you, the Escapies community, to the RV Life podcast. Welcome, thank you.
Speaker 1:Okay, I also have to just do some self promotion here. We have in the audience today some celebrities that have actually been one-on-one guests on the RV Life podcast. So Dave and Jacqueline Dave has stepped away for a minute, of course, but Jacqueline you're still there and we just did a show with Dave and Jacqueline at the Hershey RV show. It was incredible. Now I heard they sang the RV Life song to you guys the other day. What a great song that they wrote and performed in the back. They recorded it in the back of their RV at an RV site.
Speaker 2:So that was pretty darn cool, okay so now the teacher and me who said they had that bucket list, let's show your hands again. You have a bucket list. How many of you had the Albuquerque Balloon fiesta on your bucket list? So you got one checked off. Okay, now how many people have other bucket list items? Dan's going to come out and get a couple of your bucket list items and if you want to go home and steal something that somebody said, feel free to add that to your list, right?
Speaker 1:The best way to make a list is copy other people's list. Copy and paste. What is your name, sir? Where are you from?
Speaker 3:Bruce, I'm from just outside of Vancouver, bc, canada. Okay, so tell me one other bucket list item other than being here with me right now.
Speaker 3:Well, my list is pretty simple 30 years ago my wife and I bought an RV and we dreamt about traveling on the road most of the time. And three years ago we started that dream and we travel so far. We started on the West Coast, we moved in just about back to Utah covered, but then this year we got a chance to come here. So we're here and next year we're coming back to New Mexico and we just keep slicing the states down 200 miles wide at a time. That sounds amazing, yeah.
Speaker 2:So, while Dan's moving to the next person, I want to just talk to our listeners on the podcast and I'm going to invite them to chime in by going to social media, and all of you are welcome to go to the social media and share. So we have RV Life Podcasts, instagram and Facebook and I'd love for our listeners and any of you guys to put your list, put something on the list and, again, this is how we're going to get those ideas from each other to add to our list.
Speaker 1:So go ahead.
Speaker 2:Do you have somebody else?
Speaker 1:to stand. I'm going to cheat a lot on my list because I have a list of maybe 10 items, but then after those 10 items I'll go someplace and do something and that then comes on my list. We went to Florida and I had an opportunity to go up in a glider. Now I'm a pilot of fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters, so going up in a glider with no engine was kind of a different kind of thing to do, but it really was a lot of fun and I added that to my bucket list item after I did it. So I added and checked it up Jacqueline, you're here with me. I'm going to come to you because Dave wasn't here when we introduced him. So tell me about what your bucket list items are.
Speaker 2:Absolutely so. Dave and I are fortunate enough to travel around the US, canada, a little bit of Mexico, and play shows. My bucket list item would be to travel around and follow another band on their tour and see all of their concerts, and I think that'd be great. I don't know which band yet, though that's cool.
Speaker 1:Okay, now let me ask you this question. Dave and I were talking about this yesterday, so have you ever played to a really, really, really big crowd Like the first time I walked out on stage to MC a show and there was 40,000 people in the audience? It makes your heart jump a little bit.
Speaker 2:But I will. I thought it was really funny. We did do an event in Hershey. Jacqueline's favorite part was the green group with private bathroom. I didn't get back there, I didn't even get back there. So I'm glad you enjoyed it, bucket list item right there right.
Speaker 1:Now tell me, do people ever come up to you and say oh my God, I want your?
Speaker 3:autograph yeah, they do.
Speaker 2:They have some fives. Everybody has to go ask her for her autograph.
Speaker 1:How does it make you feel?
Speaker 6:They've said like a natural woman.
Speaker 2:That means that one.
Speaker 1:Okay this is a GV.
Speaker 2:So I'm going to talk about it with somebody else Tell me about your bucket list items.
Speaker 3:I'm from Chilliwack, BC, Canada. Bruce is a neighbor and we're just cruising around the south here. This year We'll get to the east coast in the fall to see the colors.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's beautiful. We have to talk after. I'm from the east coast. It's beautiful.
Speaker 1:There's a group of campgrounds called Spacious.
Speaker 2:Skies.
Speaker 1:Spacious Skies Campgrounds. They have campgrounds from Maine down to Georgia on the east coast and they have a tour that if you start in Maine you can see the fall colors all the way through as you go through their campgrounds and they have some great discounts for RV life podcast listeners.
Speaker 2:Yes, and if you want to go up in the spring, then you can see the flowers and the trees bloom.
Speaker 5:Okay.
Speaker 2:Dan. I got a no that was your one more Work with me.
Speaker 3:The dog's got a bucket list.
Speaker 2:I got Jason. You got a name tag on it.
Speaker 1:You like name tags.
Speaker 2:And Jason's got a dog.
Speaker 1:So Jason's going to give us his bucket list item Great, you win.
Speaker 4:So I'm Jason, I do full time and I actually keep my bucket list on Google Drive and I strike through points to see what I've done. One of my favorites is to go to the Take my two adult kids to the baseball hall of fame, and we're going to go in a few years when full-hostin Malina get inducted together, that's awesome, that's what it gets.
Speaker 3:That's a great wish list.
Speaker 1:We may get inducted together, okay, so.
Speaker 2:I got you back. I need a big stacker, I need somebody to kind of Once he's gone there, you go, dave, thank you, just tackle it to the ground. But we talked about making the list and we're going to talk about why it's important, and I just wanted to share. You know, as Dan said in the beginning, what do you want to do before you die and why this topic is very important for Dan and I.
Speaker 2:In January of this year, my mother became ill and I am so grateful for this lifestyle that I said bye, dan, got on the plane and flew back to Virginia and spent six months with her while she was in her last days and having that opportunity to talk to her and hearing her talk about the things that she never got to do.
Speaker 2:And so that's what inspired this topic of you know, really looking at what do you want to do and as we go through this and we're going to talk about these things, it's not just the big things, it could be some of these little things, and we are going to come back out. I might not let Dan back out, but maybe I'll come back out and share, because you know, whenever we're sitting around a campfire and somebody says oh, I just went to Kentucky. The caves in Mammoth are amazing sounding, so I certainly put that on my bucket list. So it's an ever growing, evolving kind of thing. So I guess the message here is it's never too late until it's too late. So for us sitting here it's not too late, and you're never too old and you've got to enjoy the journey. That's what it's all about, right?
Speaker 1:Okay, before we go to break, which we're about to go to break, when I look at my little script here, I'm going to take a picture of all of you Because my bucket list and when we started doing the.
Speaker 1:RVLay podcast. Normally we do it in our RV at our dining room table and we have everything set up and everything's in a controlled environment that working properly. We are not in a controlled environment here today, dave and Jack. You guys know about doing pop-up concerts all over the place and anything can. If anything can happen, it will happen in this industry. Dave and I were looking. We pulled these speakers out of the RV. They travel with us everywhere we go. Dave and I have a lot of years of experience between the two of us with speakers and all that kind of stuff. We couldn't figure out what we were going with. I mean the two of us together and a couple of other people in the audience we have somebody that's up to self-art stage manager and we have a producer, thomas Bayes, assistant producer, so he's our assistant producer today.
Speaker 4:Thank you, so I'm going to stand up and take a picture of all of you guys, because you guys are one of my bucket list items.
Speaker 1:I love doing this podcast. I worked a lot of years in radio where I go into a little TT room and the only input I have is when I do something wrong. The phone rings and the stage manager yells at me. So today you know we've got to a point where we have this podcast and the internet and we get it out over there. We are very, very proud to say that the RV Live Podcast in its first six months we were told by Buzzsprout, who distributes our podcast for us, that we're in the top 5% of all podcasts in the world.
Speaker 2:I didn't have that on my bucket list because I certainly didn't expect that to happen, so I guess I can put it on there now, y'all want to smile, smile, very nice smile, thank you, okay, but after the break.
Speaker 1:I'm going to tell you we're going to talk about how to create a bucket list, how to activate that bucket list and ideas to add to your bucket list. We're going to call over all of that when we come back from the break right after I hit this podcast. Now let me ask you a question. Did anybody in this audience purchase their RV from NIRVC? I got one. Were you happy with your sales process?
Speaker 2:Well, that's not a great thing you just opened yourself up she went don't take that thing.
Speaker 1:I took a chance and I just went with it.
Speaker 2:That's risky. Say that again. Nirv service oh, okay, so they're using NIRV. Wow, that was a nice catch. For those of you listening to the podcast, Dan is throwing t-shirts and she had a nice catch and the gentleman over here said he uses NIRVC for service. We're very grateful to them because when Dan finally met me in Virginia, we needed a place to store the RV. We sent it to me a couple of weeks and four months later we went back and picked it up. They let us keep the RV at NIRVC, so we are very grateful to them.
Speaker 1:And for those of you that don't know about National Indoor, they have facilities all around the company. Six or seven, eight, nine. Now they're six or seven.
Speaker 2:You're a little faster than that.
Speaker 1:The owner is just an incredible human being. He knows more about the RV industry than anybody I have ever met. He has a concept, a marina concept. So for people that, let's say, you live in Albuquerque I'm not sure anybody who lives in Albuquerque, but if you live in Albuquerque and he had a center here, which he does not but when you go out in your RV for a week or two, then you bring it back to your spot at his facility and then they service it, they clean it, they get it ready to go for your next. It's like the marina concept when you have a boat, you always bring your boat back to the same marina after you've used it for a day or two or three.
Speaker 1:Well, he put that concept in and I just thought it was genius and the people there are just incredible. They really really are. They're people that care. I believe it starts at the top and it just trickles down through the whole organization. We know a lot of those people personally. And for Patty to be able to spend the last two months of her mother's life with her six months of her mother's life with her.
Speaker 1:Yeah, time, time just kind of all blurs together, yeah, when that kind of stuff was going on. But so many of us just get on a plane and go to a funeral. When a friend or somebody dies and you go to their funeral. Well, spending that time with that person before they pass is so, so important and NRRBC gave us the ability to do that.
Speaker 2:Okay. So let's get back to creating that bucket list. So a lot of our viewers travel with others and we have I hope that's water. There was something squirreling out of the back of that tank. I hope it's water. Oh great, Okay, Alrighty, then this is desert camping. So what's one of the first things that I think is important for creating a bucket list? And that's discussion and sometimes a little bit of arguing heated discussion, whatever you want to call it, but like everybody getting on the same page talking about what do you want. I know that. You know there've been things that Dan's wanted to do that I've just gone along with, and things that I've wanted to do that he kind of goes along with. I think most of what we decide on doing, we both want to do. How many people, like, had this discussion before they got out on the road? I have not a lot of sort of a couple people. Is there anybody?
Speaker 1:that did not want to come to the Albuquerque believe yes, from one side of the couple.
Speaker 4:Nobody's going to admit to that.
Speaker 2:They might not want to get up at four o'clock in the morning, I've got a shirt, if you admit to it. Back there. You're not getting up at four o'clock every morning. She is not. I'm with you, I'm with you, I'm with you.
Speaker 6:Whoa.
Speaker 2:Somebody's going to get hurt, we'll get you one. I'm with you, though I'm exhausted. I think that's an important part of it is talking about the things you want to do. When we started, when Dan and I started out, it was already COVID.
Speaker 2:Like so many people, dan, called me up to his office, I was living in a 3200 plus square foot house with a pool, a hot tub and a walk-in closet. He calls me up to the house and he says I didn't care about leaving the house. The fact that I stayed there was not that big a deal. Somebody calls me up and he says let's sell everything and buy an RV. I just started laughing. This was the start of the conversation, not the way to do it. Let me protect myself and accept this. There's no protecting yourself.
Speaker 1:I was working on a show in Bally's Las Vegas. They called us into a meeting and they said we are not going to reopen our stages for a year after the government says COVID is over. I'm sitting in my office and I'm looking at $5,000 to $8,000 a month going out. I've just been told that we have at least 12 months before we're going to go back to work. That just didn't work for me. I have always wanted to live on the road.
Speaker 2:I've always had that dream of wanting to live on the road. That was not something that had been shared prior.
Speaker 1:I kind of shared it because every time we went by an RV dealership we would just stop and go and look and sit in them for a while.
Speaker 2:This was not how to share. He said it'll be great, we'll go to every national park in the country. This was the idea behind it. I was like I'm not sure. That sounds exciting to me. Yes, I probably want to go to some, but I don't necessarily want to go to others. Obviously, I fell for whatever he was feeding me. Here we are over two and a half years later. How many national parks have we gone to? Take a guess.
Speaker 1:Zero.
Speaker 2:Not a single one. People say why I got Chastise yesterday dinner for that by Joe. He was like really was not happy. We always find something cool, something exciting that I hadn't even thought of. We have yet to get to one.
Speaker 1:For those of you that don't know, we also have a YouTube channel called Exploring Through Our Lens. Because we have a YouTube channel called Exploring Through Our Lens, we're not allowed to shoot in national parks at all. I was told by one of the PR people from the National Park Service. She was the Western Regional PR person. She said by our rules you can't even shoot personal pictures. I can't go into Yosemite and shoot a picture of her with Yosemite in the background. We have been declared villains you too, by the way.
Speaker 2:Yeah there's.
Speaker 4:Dave Shaker's hands you have been declared.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so national parks have not been on our list, even though there's some beautiful things out there.
Speaker 2:Right, we will get to them. We just won't shoot. We'll get to them. And certainly part of this is, like I said before, enjoying the journey. Sometimes the journey has been more exciting, more fun than the actual destination.
Speaker 2:We stopped off somewhere. We've done things that I never would have thought to do. We were in Tennessee. We were going to Nashville, stopped before or after Nashville. We never got to Nashville. We stopped in this little town called Bonoque, with Tennessee. Anybody ever even heard of it? It's somewhere off 40. It's an amazing little town. Put it on your bucket list. We stayed. It was a harvest toast. And we stayed with this couple that raises a long horn cattle. They're like puppies. So we took us out there and they want you to pet them. Their horns are this big, seriously, they're like puppies. And then he comes pounding on our door six o'clock the next morning. He said you got to come with us. You got to come with us. Listen, dude, I haven't had my coffee yet. This is not going to work, so we go with him. We saw a cat being born, like you just don't. You know, it's like those are the kind of things that are just amazing. But you don't necessarily have all the bucket list, right you just?
Speaker 1:you just want my bucket list now?
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then you check it off. So your homework, right today, writing it down, talking about the things you want to do, and then sometimes we'll talk about that. One of us will say we want to do that we didn't realize. So you know, keeping that going, keeping that conversation going, keep adding to it.
Speaker 1:Going to the Reno air races was one of the things that was on my bucket list. Patty had no interest in it at all. This is where I learned a very valuable lesson that when you get married, your bucket list has to change just a little bit.
Speaker 2:Well, I did go right, but she did go she spent the five days there.
Speaker 3:And dry camp for a week and because we do video with your showers every single morning before we got up and went out.
Speaker 1:It was quite the experience to meet the blue angels in person and then have them fly over you at 10 feet. It was an experience and a half Kind of like, you know, watching the other day when you had the competition set up right over here and the balloons flew in and dropped their little beanbags on board. The person that we are camping with actually won that day, so when he dropped his beanbag he dropped it right on the target, so that was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2:Okay. So now I'm going to ask does anybody come up with a bucket list item that they hadn't thought about before? Okay, so you want to go out? I'll let you go out, but you have to come back. You're right. And for those people, for our podcast list, dan is now going up into the audience to find out what people may have added to their bucket list item, to their bucket list, my name is Tim Faines, I'm from California, missouri, and on our bucket list was a motorbike we had.
Speaker 3:We've been using it at camp, but we didn't have a motorbike and we bought a motorhome. We took delivery of it in Las Vegas and we went to the NFL draft while we were there.
Speaker 4:Wow.
Speaker 3:And I had no idea we wanted to go into the NFL draft. They had shut down Las Vegas Bull Barb. They had big thing going on. It was amazing and Debbie and I looked at each other and we called our motorhome the Magic Motorhome, because now the bucket list is now developing and it was that motorhome that the bucket list keeps going. We did this a lot of national parks down the street Never on the bucket list before it just keeps going.
Speaker 2:That's awesome, and you know how many people. Yeah, give them a round of applause. How many people had our being on their bucket list? Just a couple Before they got there, Before you went right, More than half of the people in the list. How is he counting? You picked your game. Take your glasses off.
Speaker 6:You know, yesterday we're shooting the television show.
Speaker 1:We're out at the balloon, we're getting ready to put the basket back in the truck. I sent in the driver. I said you're about six feet away and I put my hands up this. He keeps them back. Then five and four and she's like how can that be six feet? So I laid down between the basket and the back of the truck.
Speaker 3:And I'm six foot two.
Speaker 1:And my head was just barely on that lift gate for the back of that truck.
Speaker 2:That is one of my I can't, but I can't. We've lost it, okay, so let's try that again, okay, thank you for our listeners. I have lost it. I couldn't even pull it together.
Speaker 1:Now we said before the break, we talk also about how to accomplish your bucket list. It's one thing to say I want to. It's another thing to say I did. I did go to be an FL draft, and what an experience that is. I did go to the major league baseball draft. What an experience that is, because it's not just about calling the name out.
Speaker 4:And one of the things that NFL did this last year.
Speaker 1:this year's draft is they let interns actually do the reading of the picks. So instead of P was all out there saying Pick number 32 is Dan Hunt, they actually let the interns do that and he still decided to watch. I thought that was just a great thing to do to get those interns involved in the draft this year.
Speaker 2:I think what I'm seeing and, again, we have some ideas of what we want to say. But this is totally not scripted. I think when I'm hearing and seeing and if you guys agree or disagree, let me know Disagree with me, but I think this lifestyle has lent itself to. Even though you have the bucket list, there are so many things I know for us that we've done that we never thought of, and I'm hearing that from a lot of you. Are you just kind of finding things that are like wow moments that you never would have thought of? I'm thinking we put those on our bucket list and we check them off, right. I think that's great.
Speaker 1:Have you ever been to Lorraine Caverns? That's my girl.
Speaker 2:Yeah, in Virginia. In Virginia what?
Speaker 1:an incredible experience that was Now we went in there and they actually closed the whole thing for us so we could go in and shoot and not be disturbed. I thought that was a little much. But right next to the Lorraine Caverns there's something that I just always wanted to do and have never done, and that's go into a hedge maze. Have you ever seen a hedge maze?
Speaker 2:You know, I have four mazes right, Unless you live in a desert and they don't exist.
Speaker 1:But we went in and she was a little bit nervous about going in. So we talked to the owner and builder of this hedge maze. He actually modeled it after something in England. I guess they're pretty famous in England those hedge mazes, and I mean you could go in this thing for an hour or two or three and never get out.
Speaker 2:It was amazing.
Speaker 1:We had the owner, so he knew how to get out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we just were doing it quick, but it was really amazing. You know, thinking about it, I just was like, okay, this is for kids, you know, and again, I think a lot of us that live are, you know, or the, how many people are full time. Okay, yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1:There you go. That's more than half.
Speaker 6:Anybody with me out there?
Speaker 2:that that was more than half More than half of the people are full time, that's right, you mentioned it too much and you probably need to take your glasses off. You've got one person agreed. Then those of you that are part time, sometimes whatever that looks like right, but I think this, whether you are part time or full time, just lends itself to finding those things, and again, I mean in the beginning.
Speaker 2:You know, as I said, I think that so much of what we've enjoyed and so much that's been amazing is meeting people. Right, I mean, I never would have had that on my bucket list, but we've met so many incredible people that have become incredible friends. We left here and had dinner with six couples at the house we're staying at we started when we started out on our journey. It was a Boondockers welcome. We went to. They looked five miles from here. Great, she lets us come stay. Full hookups Can't beat that. So we are now mooch docking instead of boondocking, and it's just the people that we've met is probably one of the biggest things, that most important for us.
Speaker 1:Now I'm going to say, before we started our being, she hated people. I mean, really she cannot like people at all. Now you know, she's the life of the party, where the last people believe the party. Usually it's just all kinds of fun. Well, I think I'm going to take Jacqueline's idea and instead of you following somebody else around, we're going to follow you around and do our podcast.
Speaker 2:Right after you guys do it, after you perform there, you go. I think, after this, though, we're going to need this area is great, because that's part of it too. So, enjoying the journey. When we started out, how many people did this? We started out, we're full time. We had to do everything. Like let's do everything, we're in this area. I guess I felt like we'd never be back again. So we're doing everything. After the first three, four weeks, I was exhausted, and then we just decided, hey, we need to slow down, take our time, enjoy the journey and just like, sometimes, what you see around you.
Speaker 2:I was in Pennsylvania. We stayed in Pennsylvania after my mom passed. I said I just need time. We stayed there. I went and had a massage. That was my treat and this woman says to me you know, you should see my other facility. She said this might sound crazy, but there's this amazing treat. I know it might sound crazy. I said no, that doesn't sound crazy at all. I love trees in nature. This is the oldest sycamore tree ever. It's from like 200 years ago, maybe more, and it was just amazing. You don't think about those kinds of things, right? I mean, it's just not something to think about, but that was amazing. I go home I said grab your camera, grab the GoPro, grab the drone. We're going to take pictures.
Speaker 1:So we will post some of those pictures on our Instagram page so everybody can see what she's we meaning she will post some pictures on our Instagram page and then I'd love for all of you to go on and comment about it and say we heard about that at that escape, these compound at the Albuquerque Balloon. Now I'm going to tell you a little story about how to accomplish a bucket list. When I was a little boy, my father got me a book, and this book talked about a place called Meteor Crater. It's right on I-40. So I read this book and he would read it to me every single night and I got obsessed with Meteor Crater.
Speaker 1:And then one day we lived in Los Angeles like we're open Los Angeles, by the way my dad came to me and said you know what we're going to do? We're going to drive all the way across the country to see your grandparents in Euclid, ohio, which is basically Cleveland Ohio. So we got in the car and day one we drove to Las Vegas and my parents went out drinking, and my mother especially was very, very hungover the next day. But the next day was the day we were supposed to go and stop at Meteor Crater, but because my mom, we didn't get started, we never made it to Meteor Crater. So then it was one of those 12 o'clock stopovers, so we never even stopped and we drove right by it.
Speaker 1:Fast forward 35, 40 years. We buy an RV and we leave Las Vegas and we're going to Pennsylvania to see our kids. We were originally from Pennsylvania, both of us from Philadelphia, so we drove on 40 and don't you know, without doing the research and normally I do all my research and I would have seen it on RV Trip Wizard but we did not that first trip, I did not plan it into the stop and I see the signs for it. I'm like let's stop.
Speaker 3:She says no, come on, we got to stop there.
Speaker 1:She didn't even really drink.
Speaker 4:And she just kept saying no, so we drove right by Meteor Crater.
Speaker 1:We got to the lot to Philadelphia. We're staying in Philadelphia, and we get a call that says you need to be back in Las Vegas for a television show in four days. So what do we do? We hightail it back across the country from Philadelphia back to Las Vegas. We get there in four days and what did we pass? Made your credit. Yeah, we get there and Contractually some problems happen, blah, blah, blah. They wanted us in this TV series, they wanted conflict, they wanted us to fight all the time and we don't do negative. So we actually turned down a TV series because we will not do negative.
Speaker 2:Not that we don't fight. Let me be clear. We have to be reminded sometimes that they are people, all sort of thin, but yet we're not doing that for a TV show so we got back in our RV and we went back to Philadelphia and we drove right by Media okay, but honey, it's on the list, it's on the bucket list.
Speaker 2:So, and again, prioritize certain things, add certain things to it, but have fun with it. I think that's the big thing, you know, like, make a plan. I don't think so much for the RV community. I think the RV community is different. And Going out, doing things, experiencing things, seeing things. Our purpose in Doing the podcast and doing the YouTube channel was to inspire people to get out. So I don't know that you guys are the audience in there. But for those people listening to the podcast that say, oh, I've always wanted to go in an RV we hear it all the time. Even if you don't go out, buy an RV and travel full-time, like like some of us have done, do something, go out, do something. Right, there's always something out there that's fun and exciting that you could do. So get out there and do something.
Speaker 1:Okay, the next. Thing. I have on my list here is do you celebrate when you have Something that you accomplish? If you accomplish a bucket list, I don't know if you accomplish a goal. Do you take the time to celebrate that?
Speaker 2:Most people do not how many people celebrate a win? A goal will achieve good and that's. Not, that is not what. 10 people raised their hands. Oh my goodness, those are reading glasses.
Speaker 1:Okay then, so I want to tell you a little story about the albuquerque balloon gifted ballooning in general. Now, ballooning was created. The very very first balloon Was two brothers from france. A tradition started very, very early on that they would take a bottle of french champagne on every balloon ride and that tradition has saved. So today, when you take a balloon ride, you always do a toast. A toast said you went up to the skies and you came back down to the earth safely, and usually that toast includes the first time person getting on their knees in front of the basket and getting Drenched with the champagne.
Speaker 1:But I just thought it was great that every single time a balloon goes up in the air and then it comes down, they have a bottle of champagne with them and they do a toast. That's one of the reasons that I'm going to try to get my rating for hot air balloons. But, um, I think that they really got something there. They really have something there and that is celebrate those wins. Because when you do go to the nfl draft and you get that feeling, that experience of seeing something that is Bigger than life, almost, I mean, and that's the feeling that it is, it's, it's really a production, it's bigger than life toast that you did it, because then you have that accomplishment and you remember that accomplishment and that's what I think is so important.
Speaker 2:Okay now I do want to go back and ask again how many people had the albuquerque balloon fiesta on their list.
Speaker 1:Before you put your hands up, I'm gonna say it's about happy.
Speaker 2:Right, or they're going to go home and put it on your list. How many people went in a balloon? How many people went for a ride?
Speaker 4:I did.
Speaker 2:Thank you. So again for our hi-cast listeners Nobody. Very sorry, yet Go out. If you do want to go for a ride, they are looking for crew. If you go out, volunteer tomorrow or sunday, you might get a ride. It's not guaranteed, but they are looking for crew. That's a side note. Now, all of you are here for escapees, and what I understand is there's three different escapees, these events here. Is that correct? So go out in the audience. I just want to give a shout out for escapees, allowing us to come in, and I want to let people know that you have the albuquerque balloon fiesta on their list. Escapes and the three different events is the way to do it, but you got plan early, right? She's shaking her head. Amy is one of the hosts and she and she's the only. There's four hosts. She's the only name I remember, so sorry. So when you go over to Amy, talk about who our hosts are.
Speaker 1:I remember Dave, I remember Dave and I remember Jacqueline.
Speaker 2:Oh, she's got a host. Dave's not one of the hosts, so we've got our hosts over here and then we have two others Right here, right there. Oh, there you go. Four people are raising their hands. Not yet, not yet. And then tell us about the, the groups that people can attend, and this fiesta.
Speaker 1:So my first question to you is Was being a host at the albuquerque balloon fiesta or escapees of your public?
Speaker 2:Well, first I have to tell you that we're safer. Okay, and I gotta interrupt because we had and again for our podcast guest, we had Melanie and Travis Carr on the show, who are the co CEOs From memory, and they explained escapees. But you could be an escape, or as part of it, to the N and I are escapees and escapers, so elder is paper, it's also an escapee, okay so, yes, I was on a bucket list, but we didn't want to just come to the show today.
Speaker 3:So we said Holly, we hope.
Speaker 2:And she said well, the last co hosts aren't gonna do it. Do you want to do it? So that's absolutely been a dream to be here and to serve these guys. And, yeah, for our listeners, these people are having a fantastic time About the apple ball oh god, we're never gonna hear the end of that. Okay, so what are the three groups that are here? Damn, went off topic, but okay, we're going with the flow here. So we have the Big group, which is escapees, and they have a pop Over here in the red and white tent. So those are Like catered meals and a more you know high class. They've got the tent, we got the dirt, I've got it. Oh, what's the hop? Hop is a specialized defense Head out program, head out program.
Speaker 2:Okay, mr Paul, so escapees has a group called boomers and they are running boomers and balloons, which is right over here. So they are true, and many of many of our crew actually went up in the room. They were here. I don't know why they weren't here. I might be a call on them. But yes, we have had some escapees still open in the balloon, so if you want to get involved in that, you have to email the street. We got information, so our group is escapeers and so this event is very.
Speaker 2:Okay, because we have so much interest in this event, we split it up into two groups. Okay, this is session two. They just got here, oh, okay, so it's it's. It's double the size of what we see here. Yeah, you'd be correct.
Speaker 4:Okay, I'm gonna say about half of them.
Speaker 2:Oh, my goodness, we do have to describe this for our listeners. They can't see this. We are in a field and it is, I don't know, mild, to the park, right to the balloon park. You can walk there, take your electric bikes, um courtesy shuttle, they have here and they have, you know, are these parts. You can bring generators. You're probably hearing them in the background. There is a pump. So if you need to, be your sure, pump out, you could do that, but the escapees do sell out. You did, the escapeers did sell out. Okay. So for those who have alpha car people in fiesta on their list, this is definitely the way to do it. The people here are amazing. Let's hear from you Like we had so much fun. I'm glad we get to be here, even though we were part of this particular event. So thank you for having us.
Speaker 1:Now, if you at home or in your car or working out listening to the rvline podcast, if you want to come to the alpha car people in fiesta Through them or through escapees so there's other groups that come here Things as well you need to plan on it now. Put it on your bucket list today, because if you don't take action, you are not going to get in. This thing sells out Somebody told me within five minutes of when it went out.
Speaker 3:Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2:Okay, so Dan said five minutes of when it went up. 10 minutes okay so we either cut things in half or we double them from whatever Dan said Okay, now this is the part of the podcast where we usually go to break and then Dan and I do our clothes ourselves, but since we have you here, we're going to bring you with us. So we are going to take a break and then we're going to ask the audience to share questions. Your glasses yeah, I can't see a thing they're right here.
Speaker 2:It's a little bit challenging here today, but it has been an amazing group of people Like you guys are amazing, a little tired, I think. How many people got up for four or five a? Yeah, they're a little tired. I am too. I'm with you.
Speaker 1:Well, we will be back right after this.
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Speaker 1:Okay does anybody have a warranty on their RV?
Speaker 2:No good, about half of you do right, they're not even raising their hand anymore.
Speaker 1:I already guessed out there, but that's a couple. We had them on the show a couple weeks ago and it really made me want to think about how important a warranty can be for your RV.
Speaker 2:Now wait, I got to say the owner of the company, and he was so down to earth and so honest. I got to be honest. It was one of those podcasts and interviews that I was worried about. Like how do you make talking about warranty exciting for 45 minutes, right? This guy was so down to earth and he said, look, a warranty is not for everybody. And I just had so much respect for him, anyway, so I got to do that.
Speaker 1:But Now that sound means it is time for today's question of the week.
Speaker 4:Now we get our questions normally from social media and people come and talk about, ask us questions and then we go out and research them.
Speaker 1:But today, because this is such a good crowd, I do not know what this gentleman is going to ask. I talked to him yesterday and I asked him to think about an RV question of the week. So I'm going to take a chance and I'm going to go out into the crowd and have one of you guys give us the question of the week and I might have to edit in the answer to it. Okay, so, walking out into the crowd without tripping over the wires, and I have Tom Vase. Tom Vase is going to ask our question of the week and do it right into that camera over there.
Speaker 3:Hi everybody. So many, many, many years ago we grew up with a camping family my brother and myself and we progressed from tents to trailers to motor homes the whole nine yards, and along the way nobody seemed to tell me that I didn't have to drive 12 to 15 hours to get somewhere. So my question today for the team of experts is how many miles should I drive? Or maybe drive how many hours maybe should I drive, or should I not drive at all, and should I stop along the way? That's the question of the day. I'm going to give this back to Dair and I want to thank Patty. To see you, buddy, okay.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'm going to let Patty answer this, because she has got rules. This is a woman that was a school teacher for 20-some-odd years. She's got rules for rules for rules for rules.
Speaker 2:What are the rules? First of all, I'm going to say and I know you're thinking of the 333 rule, but what I'm going to say is what works for you. So how many people drive two hours at a time? How many people drive three hours at a time, four hours at a time, five hours at a time, six more Four?
Speaker 1:hours was the amount.
Speaker 2:Okay, he is like six hours, seven, eight hours. It's such a personal thing. We try I have made it a rule to not do more than 250 miles. Which is what? Three or four hours, Something like that, Something like that. Okay, Well, when we got stuck in Memphis, Tennessee, on the way here, and we were a week late because the RV took a week to get repaired, we were doing six, seven hours at a time. I don't like to travel that way. I'm missing too much, I'm not enjoying the journey, I'm not enjoying the ride and I don't do any of the driving. I just sit in my nice comfy seat. But that's a great question. You just have to know what's more expensive, more comfortable for you. And you saw here you had the range of amount of time. You'll have a range of how long somebody will stay in one place. Right now we need a break. So we are going to stay in one place for a solid week and not do anything but sit in the hot springs.
Speaker 1:That's what I'm saying the High Caliente, which is about two hours. Two hours north of here by Santa Fe, so it's hot springs, hot minerals, friends and mud baths.
Speaker 2:And massages and no phone calls. So again, it just depends Find what your comfort spot is. And again it's a conversation because he'll say oh, obviously you know he pushes everything, so I'll say three hours and he'll say five or six, turns out to be eight. You see how it works in real life. Yeah, finding what's comfortable for you.
Speaker 1:Now, one of your sub questions was should you stop someplace along the way? And my answer is absolutely yes. Next time I go by major creators, I'm going to stop and I'm going to be there for a damn week.
Speaker 2:I'm going to the hot springs.
Speaker 1:As long as we can get in the rest of the three three. Three is travel for three hours, arrive by three o'clock. And stay for at least three days. There's your three, three, three rules.
Speaker 2:So that's the one thing that a lot of people suggest we need to do the RV life pro tip.
Speaker 1:Obviously, you need a horn for that. Okay, there's your horn. That horn means it's time for today's RV life pro tip of the week.
Speaker 6:RV life makes it easy to share your exciting. Rv trip with friends and family via the RV life trip wizard.
Speaker 6:To share a trip with another trip wizard user, first open your trip, click on the wrench icon and choose share trip. Now click share trip with another trip wizard user and enter the email address that person uses for their own trip wizard account and click send. Your friend or family member will find your trip in their own trip wizard account under tentative trips, where they can view, copy or even change the trip according to their own needs. If you simply want to share a view of your trip, even to those without an RV life pro account, simply choose visitor view after clicking share trip and create a shareable link that allows others to see your RV journey just as you planned it. I'm Pat Buchanan with your RV life pro tip of the week.
Speaker 2:Thank you, pat Buchanan, for the tip of the week. So Dan bought RV trip wizard before the RV and before he convinced me to even go RVing. So he was up there in his little office planning out trips that he wanted to do before. So we have been using RV trip wizard for over three years longer than we've been traveling and we love it. And because we had the RV life podcast, we could offer you 25% off if you don't have it. But great tips, one of the things that we do whatever program you use for planning your trips, we send our trip to our best friend and our oldest, most responsible child, so they know where we're at at any given time, except when we go to Oho, calliente, where we don't want to be bothered to like, yeah, we just took a week and stayed in the desert, but it is a great way to plan and it is a great idea to have somebody that knows where you are, at least most of the time. So for our RV listeners, rv life podcast listeners it has been a show today.
Speaker 1:It has been something a little bit different, very different.
Speaker 2:And we want to thank all of you for being here. Thank you so much, and thank you for welcoming us into the Escapers compound. I have two extra large shirts left.
Speaker 1:That's probably enough for about half of you.
Speaker 2:Whoever?
Speaker 1:stands up for an extra large shirt first, gets me to throw it to them.
Speaker 2:There we go, let's close out the show.
Speaker 1:There we go. Hold on. We're going to have one person that has something that they would like to say to the Escapers compound.
Speaker 3:Got it Okay. My friends told me, tell me T. Okay. I've been around the entertainment music business for many, many years and I know a lot of people. I'm going to help the boarder hookups. Hookup. Jacqueline's Dream will be an opener and follow band. I can call the RV people. We can get that taken care of. Wow, they're playing here tomorrow at 2 pm. Live. If you haven't seen their show, come and see it because they are incredible.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:They are more than incredible and make them sing the RV life song two, three, four times.
Speaker 5:And everybody said that.
Speaker 1:I can't get it out of my head. It really is something so okay. You're listening to the RV live podcast. I'm Dan Hunt with my incredible wife, patty Hunt, saying have a great rest of today.
Speaker 2:And an even better day tomorrow.
Speaker 1:At least half of you.
Speaker 5:I've never lost it like this.