Beyond the Wheel

Are you dreaming of RV life or are you already living the RV dream? Full Time Freedom Week will help you succeed in life on the road. On today’s show, we talk with Julie Chickery and Lindsay McKenzie, two of the four founders of the event. Full Time Freedom Week is the largest online event for RVers and this year’s event is going to be bigger than ever! Full Time Freedom Week includes over 30...

Covering RV Travel in a Podcast Today we celebrate one year of the Beyond The Wheel Podcast. We can’t believe it’s been a year already! Sean and Kenny take a trip down memory lane and discuss how and why the show was created. Also, what they like most about each episode from the last year. If you are a fan of RV travel, you will enjoy the podcast. If you are a podcast fan, you will enjoy hearing t...

Did you know that there are 20,000 RV fires every year? Most of those fires occur while the RV is stationary. On today’s show, we are talking with Nichole Wheeler from Proteng, a company that develops a fire suppression device called THIA (Tube+Heat=Instant Action). The great thing about THIA is that once it is installed, it’s completely automatic. There is no running to a fire ext...

Caravanning Have you caravanned? Sean and I both tried caravanning for the first time this year. On today’s show, we are chatting about what we learned about it and ourselves. Sean & Julie caravanned with Dan & Lisa from Always on Liberty while Kenny & Sabrina caravanned with Jon and Nadia from Roaming Remodelers . They each have some funny stories about the experience and some helpful...

Electric RV Two words come to mind when discussing today’s guest, knowledge and passion. Jamie Sorenson is the show’s first returning guest, and he is here to talk about how Winnebago is charging into the future with their all-electric vehicles. Currently, Winnebago is making all electric vehicles for blood drive mobiles, mobile classrooms and medical applications, but this really is just th...

You may know Joe Russo from the very popular YouTube channel “We’re The Russos”, but did you know that Joe is also a successful author? He published the first book, Take Risks: One Couple’s Journey to Quit Their Jobs and Hit The Open Road , last year. This year, Joe has the second book of the series coming out. He named this book,  Tales From the Open Road: The Adventures and Misa...

Speaking with us today is the owner of Trailer Valet, Ted Chen. While we were at the RVX show in Utah, we saw a product that really caught our eye. There was a guy with a small remote-controlled tank, and he was using it to move a travel trailer around a display area. It looked unbelievable, so we had to stop and talk with the Trailer Valet team. Turns out they make a variety of small equipment th...

Campground Etiquette Campground etiquette is a hot topic. Today we will dive into what we feel are the dos and don’ts at a campground. Campground sites can often be close quarters, and we feel it is important for everyone to respect each other’s areas and our own. Sometimes this becomes even more complicated when traveling with kids and pets. Campground etiquette comes down to respecting othe...

Do you own property? Have considered using it to host RVers for income? Are you an RVer looking for a place to stay? Well, now there is an easy way to do this for both parties.  RVWITHME.com is a website that will allow you to list your property in just minutes or for you to find properties for RV stays, such as farms, golf courses, homes, casinos, and more. The site even shows some good...

Space and weight are so important when RVing and it’s one of the many reasons we love Better For Your drinkware. Jason and Rose, the owners of Better For Your, walk us through the process of how they came up with idea for selling drinkware, the process of using Amazons FBA program and how much time and thought goes into the design of each of their products. Spoiler alert it is more than you would...

What if we told you that you could run your small 2000 or 2200 Honda generator on something other than gasoline? Would you believe us? In this episode we talk with the owner of Hutch Mountain, Clayton Hutchinson. Clayton has a background in alternative fuels and created a conversion kit to convert your Honda generator from gasoline to propane. Clayton talks about how his company came about, why he...

Keeping up with our tradition of no guests for every third show, we sit down and chat about Sean & Julie’s new RV. They downsized from a 44ft 5 th wheel to a 29ft Arctic Fox 5 th wheel. Sean lets us know why the big change and what attracted them to the Arctic Fox. We also talk about our RVX experience and how much fun it was to sit on the floor while interviewing the CEO of KOA Toby O’Rourke...

When we think of the Escapees RV Club, we think of community, education, and great service. Travis and Melanie Carr, President & Vice President of the Escapees RV Club stop by the show to chat about the club’s long history of helping the RV community. From the early years with Travis’ grandmother starting the first newsletter all the way to present-day services, such as organizing fun ed...

Welcome to a very special live recording of Beyond The Wheel. If you own an RV most likely you have seen a KOA during your travels and maybe even stayed at one. We really enjoy KOA campgrounds for the ease of use of their website to book, always having friendly staff, and their beautiful campgrounds that are always kept clean and in great shape. We literally sat on the floor with the new CEO of KO...

Heavy duty lift. Rving should be for everyone and Winnebago is trying to make that a reality with their Accessibility Enhanced Vehicles now available in dealer stock.  We are so glad to see that Winnebago is being proactive in this area. We hope other manufacturers will follow suit. History of Winnebago’s Accessibility Enhanced Vehicles Winnebago has been making Accessibility Enhan...

With today’s RV’s having so many options and features combined with the standard build of plumbing, electrical, and mechanical all in one vehicle, it is no surprise that breakdowns and repairs are not a matter of if, but when. That is where Wholesale Warranties comes in. They have multi-level customer-direct warranty packages. There is a level of protection for everyone. You may be surprised by ho...

Quartzsite Today we sit down and chat about how great the Quartzsite meet and greet at the Battle Born Batteries booth went. We were surprised by the number of people who came out to see us and surprised by how excited they were to meet us. Both of us describe our overall experience of the Quartzsite event and what it was like for both of us being first-timers there. We also had a chance to meet C...

Do you enjoy dry camping or boondocking? Did you know there is a company that makes a component that will allow you to operate your A/C unit from your inverter or small 2,000-watt generator? Micro-Air has such a device called an EasyStart. It was originally developed for the Coast Guard to operate their A/C units while out at sea, but now it is available to the public. This easy-to-install device...

During the big RV show in Quartzsite, Kenny & Sean had the opportunity to visit the Battle Born crew in the Big Tent. It was the first time at Quartzsite for both of us. Kenny was brave and stayed in his RV for 5 days at one of the LTVA locations. I was not as brave and drove in for the day from Tucson. My impression of Quartzsite, just being there for the day, was it seemed like chaos and not...

What is GoPetFriendly.com Do you travel with pets? Thinking about starting? Anyone who has ever done this knows it is not an easy task. It can be a chore to find pet-friendly places to visit and locate pet-friendly restaurants, parks, hotels, and nearby vets. Luckily, someone is doing all the leg work for us. That is Amy Burkert from GoPetFriendly.com.  For almost 10 years, Amy has been...

Do you tow a travel trailer, boat, or flatbed trailer? Are you tired of looking for a place to store your hitch, other than the ground, when it’s not in use? On today’s show, we talk with Gary Bussell owner of Hitchport, LLC. Hitchport makes an easy-to-install hitch storage mount that solves the problem of where to store the hitch and spring bars when not in use. With Hitchport there is no longer...

RVing full-time has changed how we celebrate the holidays. How are the holidays different when your full time? That is the topic in today’s episode.  Today, we keep our tradition of no guests on every fourth episode, so sit back, relax and enjoy the chat.  RVing During the Holidays Sean and Julie have been full timing for over 4 years. In that time, they have seen their share of hol...

Do you still have some last-minute shopping to do for the holidays? Then this podcast is coming to you just in time. We have Eric and Tami from TechnoRV on the show today. TechnoRV provides technology solutions for RV’ers. They sell leading RV technology products, but they do so much more than just sell a product. They want customers to have a full understanding of the products they sell before th...

Today we welcome Tom Johnson onto the show, President and co-founder of JG Lubricant Services . Taking care of your RV should be a top priority, especially when you are living in one and something that gets overlooked often is the overall health of the fluids in the RV. Tom sits down with us and goes into great detail of why it is so important to have a regular fluid analysis performed on our engi...

4 Paws Kingdom Campground & Dog Retreat On today’s episode, we talk with Connie and Sandy from 4 Paws Kingdom Campground and Dog Retreat. This adult-only, one of a kind campground located in Rutherfordton, North Carolina is designed to cater to dogs and not just some of them, all dog breeds are welcome. That’s right…no breed restrictions. Connie and Sandy describe what steps they t...