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Speaker 1: Well, hello once again to RV Talk Radio. I'm Abscriptor,
your host, and welcome to episode five. And yep, we
got all kinds of little things to talk about today.
I think our primary subject today is going to be boondocking.
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Speaker 1: To just shoot the breeze a little bit about boon docking,
and not that you can boondock, but the concerns of
boon docking. The first thing I want to remind you
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Rob at RV talk radio dot com. So getting onto
the subject of boondocking, I just want to kind of
bring it up as a subject and I don't have
a main thing I want to talk about, other than
I seem to have stumbled across a couple of things
that kind of have me concerned. I just recently saw
an email video actually about the police department and the
game department having a hard time with homeless people going
into campgrounds and setting up camp and they're not paying
a dime and they don't have the manpower to get
those people out of there, so they go in. They
they cite them, and they might leave for a day,
ensue the authorities leave, they.
Speaker 2: Go right back.
Speaker 1: And the problem is happening is the fact that they're
taking really nice places to go camping, but they're leaving
garbage and waste all over those kind of campgrounds. And
a particular report I saw was down in Sacramento, California,
and it's really sad, and I'm kind of curious how
often as a boon docker, if you have ever boon docked,
come across some of this where somebody's definitely had their
rig there for a long period of time, they're accumulating
a lot of stuff around it. You may be seeing garbage,
even human waste, or anything that indicates that someone's been
living there, which we're not supposed to be living in
some of these boon docking areas, and so it'd be
really interesting to hear your stories about that. And my
other concerns about boon docking is, well, it's actually a
terminology I keep hearing, and it's not just with van dwellers.
I've seen it with smaller rigs and some actually bigger
rigs sometimes. And stealth camping is the concept of parking
overnight at places that are not normally for camp that
are in a gray area or not even mark for
saying it's no over night camping, and I.
Speaker 2: Always worry about it being abused.
Speaker 1: And I know that the RV industry is growing and
there's a lot more interest in van dwelling and small
class c's and tour vans and people working from those
vans and RVs, which is pushing the envelope for stealth camping.
And you know what that's going to do is eventually
it's going to get more and more notice, which means
another possible freedom.
Speaker 2: That we may lose. And I would be.
Speaker 1: Concerned or interested in hearing how you feel about that
and some of these stories and realities that you've seen
while you've been out boondocking or stealth camping. And I'm
not saying it's a bad thing. I'm just saying that
there's always seems to be people that abuse it, and
those people are the ones that ruin it for the
majority of us. The other concerning area is people that
use some of our privileges we have with like Walmarts
and I believe some other companies a kind of lenient
in that area where you can if you're driving all
night and you're trying to get to a destiny and
you just need a place to rest. I know, like
I've seen people use rest areas. I've seen them use Walmarts.
I think sometimes you can use like a Cabellas or
pro Bass shops. I believe some folks have also used
like home depots and lows and places like that unless
they're marked. And if they're marked, my understanding is isn't
necessarily the store that's marking it saying overnight camping. It's
the ordinances of the city that usually dictate that, because
a lot of stores actually feel like they benefit by
having our veers there. But of course, and I've seen
on videos time after time, there seems to be people
that abuse that and so once again, I'd love to
have your phone in or email us once again at
rob at RV talk radio dot com and tell us
your stories and we'll share them. If you call us
once again, just make sure you give us permission to
play your phone call back, and we'll put you on
the air of some of the stories that you've heard
about or seen or even witnessed about either boondocking or
stealth camping. So I'm gonna on that subject. I kind
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I want to go on to is a new subject.
Is something I want to do on a regular basic basis.
Speaker 2: Here is safety.
Speaker 1: So here's my little safety tip of the day, Robs.
Speaker 2: Safety Tip of the Day.
Speaker 1: I know that was a little corny, but it gets
the point across. So on each show, I think it's
probably a good idea to kind of talk about some
safety things. And once again, you guys can always share
safety things with us too, So this is going to
be my little safety moment.
Speaker 2: So some of the things that.
Speaker 1: I keep seeing over and over and over again are
a few common sense things that are getting people hurt
or even killed. And the first one is tires. I
cannot express enough of making sure you take care of
your tires. And one of the things I've really noticed
is if you're going down south into the hotter weather,
tires or rubber seems to break down faster, and so
you really need to start watching your tires. I saw
a video the other day of someone captured a guy in.
Speaker 2: A beautiful, beautiful.
Speaker 1: Motor home and he was in the passing lane going
by someone and they blew a front tire and that's
bad news on a motor home. And he went off
into the middle part of the highway and eventually couldn't
sustain the speed and it rolled. And that was probably
half a million dollar machine, and lord knows what happened
to the people inside. And it's got that's tire safety.
So anytime you have a chance, check your tires. And
if you have the chance or have the money to
put pressure gauge monitors on your tires, which is a
little electronic devices you can put on your tires that
we report to you at the command center or the
way you drive, telling you the.
Speaker 2: Status of all your tires.
Speaker 1: And just the other day, I mean, my wife has
one of something like that in her little mas De
three and she was going to indicate her there was
something wrong with her tire, and she pulled in a
less Schwab, which is one of our tire places up
here in Washington, and sure enough she had a nail
and her tire, and so it was a nice She
probably would have never known that until she eventually she
would have gone out in the parking lot and found
a flat tire. And the last thing I want is
my wife stuck in a parking lot, especially after work
or something.
Speaker 2: What a flat tire.
Speaker 1: So a lot of us also have urvs with slides,
and so another thing that needs to be treated a
lot is the rubber on the slides that protects basically
you from the elements. So there's like silicone sprays things
like that you can put on that rubber to protect it.
And I can't emphasize enough to go up and you're
gonna have to have to get on the roof and
spray all that rubber with a protectant, especially if it's
got sun beating down on it, slides and bugs. If
you don't like bugs, then treat your slides. Get up
there with a lubricant and take care of all those
seals on your slides. And that's I'm talking about. I
don't care if it's the motor home, a fifth wheel
or trailer. And I believe you can also find slides
on campers. And I think even some of the pop
ups have got some sorts of slides in them and stuff.
But check any steal you got or a slide that
has the rubber and get them coated with something to
protect the rubber. I also think for safety today, for
my moment, a couple of moments here. Sorry, I just
I worry about people out there. And one of the
last stories I want to pass is your propane. So
I heard another story of a gentleman who was cooking
in his oven ran out of propane. So it's like okay,
so he goes outside, he takes the tank off, he
runs over and he puts propane in the tank, goes
back to the rig, hooks it up, turns it on
and good to go, and I guess he was outside
talking to a friend and stuff, and suddenly the alarms
are going off in his rig. Guess what he forgot
to do. He didn't turn off the oven when he
ran out of fuel. So as soon as he hooked
up fuel again, guess what, he filled his whole RV
up with propane vapor. Not good, and apparently they caught it,
turned it off, aired it out, and he was so lucky.
Could you imagine what would have happened if he was
smoking or something he set that off. The other thing
I've heard, and you want to be really careful is
you have pets, especially if you've got medium size to
larger sized dogs, and you got to watch your cats too.
They're kind of creepy that way, but they're known to
jump up on things and maybe accidentally turn a knob
on an oven or on your stove. So constantly check
your switches on your stoves, make sure that they're in
an open, locked in position, that they didn't get knocked
to the side, because they are kind of locking a
little bit. But if they get turned a little bit
and then an animal jumps up and some reason taps
one of those could actually turn on the fuel and
while you're sleeping or something like that, or while you're
gone and they're in the rig, that could be a
major danger. So anyway, that's my safety tip for today.
So yeah, I know some of that stuff sounds a
little boring, but it's not boring. It pertains to you.
And you've got your rig and you want to keep
it for a long time and you want to keep
your family safe. Please listen to some of this stuff.
But it's not just coming from me. It comes from
several people. So one of the last things that is
one of my pet peeves about r being, which is
really a problem, and I've seen it more in the South,
is bugs. Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Bugs.
Speaker 1: Now I don't know all the different ones that have
been a problem, but I can tell you two different
types of bugs that I've seen as a real nightmare.
The third one would be mosquitoes. But the main one
I saw when I was down south, especially in Vegas,
and is those darn sugar ants. Ye I know everybody's
going sugar ants.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 1: So I would get in a habit right away if
you know you're going down south to get something that
some raid or something that works good. And when you park.
Anything that touches the surface of the ground is an
invitation to those sugar ants. So spray your tires, spray
all around them, anything your jacks, anything that touches the ground,
spray it and keep those buggers out of your rig.
The other one I heard about, and it didn't happen
to me, actually happened to a friend of mine, is
they got I think they're in Alabama, and they got
infested with ladybugs. And it sounds like it was just
as bad as sugar ants. They had lady bugs everywhere.
So here's something that's really interesting. You might want to
consider two things. One is, always go throughout your RV,
find anything that's an hole or opening for plumbing all that,
and get some wool steel wool and get it around
those pipes. And then use that liquid insulation that you
just spray on and it expands. Looks kind of ugly,
but believe me, it keeps the critters out. The other
thing is in our rig, what we've done is every
opening for our heater and also intake, we put behind
it a screen. So when you look into our registers
down on the floor, you'll actually see a screen just
like a screen.
Speaker 2: Door.
Speaker 1: You'll actually see screens down there, so any way that
critters get into our heating system, they will not get
into our rig, especially mice. So I hope that's some
good advice for you is take the time to do that.
It's not hard. Go get a whole bunch of screen
material and open up those red even the intake of
where they air comes in for your heating system. Put
some screen in there so you will not regret it.
So I think I've shaked you, shaked your your pretty
good on this particular episode. A lot of safety, I apologize,
but I do get worried about folks out there, and
so many of the things that happen to people out
there can be prevented. So I think this turned out
to be more of a safety episode than it was
the boondocking, and I apologize for that, but I don't
apologize for trying to save your life. So I want
to thank you very much for listening to RV Talk Radio.
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to listen to an old, old episode. So I'm Rob Scribner.
Speaker 2: Thank you for listening, and have a great day. Fine
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