Learn To RV: The Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Veterans Day is Wednesday November 11th, and Learn to RV is celebrating all month. Jennifer sits down with Steve and Ashley Gallaher of Campfires and Motors, live from the first-ever Open Roads Rally in Tennessee. They cover how to get onto a military installation with your RV, how to find and book FamCamps, and which discounts are worth asking for. In this episode Who actually ge...

Send us Fan Mail It's 4 p.m. on a Friday, you're two hours from home, and your slide won't go out. Do you call a mobile RV tech, wait five days, or grab a wrench and screwdriver?  ASE master certified mechanic and Army veteran Jeff Malatesta of RV Diagnostics joins Jennifer and her guest co-host, Ashliy Sutterfield from Wander About Fulltime RV to share the three questions he asks b...

Send us Fan Mail This season, Community Spotlights are woven right into our main episodes. Jennifer sits down with Mary Walker of Life in the RV, who went from a 3,500 square foot house to full-time RV life nine years ago with her husband Tim.  Mary Walker discusses her experience transitioning to her super C RV, sharing insights and tips for those considering their own RV journey.   Finding the P...

Send us Fan Mail Join me as I navigate the Top Host contest and beyond. Hey there, I never envisioned starting a podcast. Until the summer of 2025, it was just a thought. A friend nudged me into it, and here I am, Jennifer Schillaci, a homeschool mom living in an RV, now in the third round of a national search for a podcast host. My Unexpected Journey When I entered the Top Host contest, I didn’t...

Send us Fan Mail Fall RV travel doesn’t mean waiting for the leaves. When you live on wheels, you can go find it. 🍂 In this episode, Mr. Road Trip himself, Rick Steelman, joins Jennifer to share his “WOW calendar” (Wacky, Offbeat & Wonderful), a running list of fall and holiday festivals, RV rallies, light displays, and roadside oddities from October through December. Plus: fall camping, leaf...

Send us Fan Mail Recorded onsite during 2026 Hershey RV Show Jennifer sits down inside a 1937 Hunt Housecar at the Hershey RV Show with Brian Artherton of the RV/MH Hall of Fame Museum & Library. The unit was built by a Hollywood cinematographer who was tired of working out of a hot tent on movie sets. It’s believed to be the first RV with a built-in shower and toilet. Brian shares the history...

Send us Fan Mail Jennifer is Team Fall Festival, cider in hand, and she's outnumbered. She brings in three of the biggest Halloween fans she knows: Ashliy Sutterfield of Wander About Full Time RV, and Jeff and Monica Grant of Dean and Gertie Explore the World.  They cover where to trick-or-treat in an RV, how to build Halloween traditions when you never park in the same neighborhood twice, an...

Send us Fan Mail Staying Active on the Road: Real Talk and Tips How to make fitness a priority while traveling  Traveling in an RV can be a whirlwind of excitement, but it often comes with the challenge of maintaining an active lifestyle. In this episode, Jennifer, Ashley, and Joanie dive into the realities of staying fit while on the road, sharing their personal experiences and practical tips tha...

Send us Fan Mail This year marks America's 250th birthday, and the RV Industry Association built an entire initiative around celebrating it on the open road. Jennifer sits down with Monika Geraci, who leads PR and communications for Go RVing, the RV Industry Association, and the RV Technical Institute.  Let's unpack what the RV 250 is, how it started, and where it's headed. Monika b...

Send us Fan Mail Hey there, fellow RV enthusiasts. Today marks a special milestone for us... it's the hundredth episode of Learn to RV! It’s hard to believe how far we’ve come since the early days less than a year ago, when we weren't even sure if starting a podcast was the right move. A Journey Together   As we reflect on this journey, it’s clear that this podcast has transformed into a...

Send us Fan Mail Today, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Jenny Herman, host of The HighlighterHer Network, where she highlights inspiring women in business. This episode was unique, as Jenny's son is curious about RVing, so we tackled his questions together in last weeks episode   From Reluctance to Passion   Jenny shared that she never planned to become a podcaster. In fact, it was he...

Send us Fan Mail   Role Reversal — A Mom's Questions About RV Life for Her Son This episode flips the script. Jennifer sits down with Jenny Herman, host of The Highlighter Network podcast, whose RV-curious son has her full of questions — and for once, Jennifer takes the guest seat, fielding a parent's real-world questions about sending a young adult out on the road. Jenny asks the questi...

Send us Fan Mail Every day is an adventure... even the eight hours stuck on the shoulder of Highway 101 with a collapsed trailer tongue dragging metal on asphalt. In this Community Spotlight, Jennifer sits down with Amy and Mike Morris of Today Is Our Adventure — a Navy-retiree couple who sold everything, hit the road during a cross-country PCS, and never looked back.  They talk frame flex and why...

Send us Fan Mail It's back-to-school season, but for full-time RVing families, there's not always a first-day photo, no bell schedule, and no hallway pass. In this Not Back to School roadschooling panel, host Jennifer Schillaci of Learn to RV brings together three fellow full-time RV moms — Kristina Bram (Traveling with the Brams), Rhea Gibson (Wandering Rocks Family), and Ashliy Sutterf...

Send us Fan Mail Christmas in July: How Gathering of Nomads Is Making Holiday Magic for RV Families Join us for a heartfelt conversation about how Gathering of Nomads is helping RV families experience the joy of Christmas, regardless of their financial or personal hardships. This episode highlights the power of community, faith, and giving, inspired by Kristina Bram’s personal story and Shane Boyd...

Send us Fan Mail There's a truck that shows up in Tampa every year before we even get the booth set up, and it's Jim's. Jim Shutt has been in our corner since before we owned RV Roofing Solutions, since before anyone called us the voice of Learn to RV. He was the very first technician who said "yes" to working with us, and years later, this show, Technically Speaking, was...

Send us Fan Mail The RV Summer Slowdown Is Sponsored by RV Roofing Solutions   Emptier campgrounds. Last-minute reservations that used to be impossible. Rigs sitting in driveways instead of racking up miles. In this episode, Jennifer and Tasha get honest about why this summer feels different out on the road, from fuel prices and industry data to the comparison trap that convinces RVers they’re doi...

Send us Fan Mail Community Spotlight Is Sponsored by RV Roofing Solutions   A used RV with ants crawling through it. A 27-foot Winnebago bought on the spot instead. And six years later they’re still rolling. Our Captain’s Logs are a Chicago-area family of four + three dogs who RV part-time around two full-time jobs, two teenage daughters, and a full school and activity calendar. Tasha sat down wit...

Send us Fan Mail Tracking Weather on the Road Is Sponsored by RV Roofing Solutions   Weather isn’t just small talk when you travel in an RV — it’s a safety issue. Jennifer and Tasha discuss how they track weather on the road, the specific apps that have saved their trips (and maybe their rigs), and the hard lessons they’ve learned from brownouts, water spouts, tornadoes, and hail. From AQI (listen...

Send us Fan Mail Sponsored by RV Roofing Solutions   What would you do if a breast cancer diagnosis landed in the middle of your full-time RV life? Jennifer Skinnell and her husband Mike have been living their don’t wait motto since 2019, and when life threw them the ultimate curveball, they didn’t stop rolling. Jennifer, a creative writer, quilter, and Learn To RV contributor , shares the raw, re...

Send us Fan Mail Slow Travel, New Horizons Is Sponsored by RV Roofing Solutions   Most RVers know how to dump their tanks and boondock overnight at Walmart, but taking that same adventurous spirit overseas can feel intimidating. Jennifer and Tasha sit down with Suzy May of Wander WorldSchool to map out how RVers can take slow, long-term travel global. Whether traveling with teens, as a couple, or...

Send us Fan Mail Community Spotlight Is Sponsored by RV Roofing Solutions   An RV power inlet on fire, a wife yelling, and a fire extinguisher emptied. For Navy-trained electronics tech and master-technician’s son Matthew Putman, that night didn’t end the adventure. It sparked a mission. Jennifer visits with the veteran inventor behind Strain Guard to talk about the failure point most RVers never...

Send us Fan Mail Pesty Buggers Is Sponsored by RV Roofing Solutions   A farmhouse view, wildflowers, a soul finally at rest — and then a trail of nibble marks straight down a sleeve of lemon Oreos. In this episode, Jennifer and Tasha trade their most unforgettable RV pest stories, from scorpions and ghost ants to animals with a taste for roof sealant, then get practical about keeping the pesty bug...

Send us Fan Mail Community Spotlight Is Sponsored by RV Roofing Solutions A year and a half of planning, a camper and a truck bought a week apart, and a launch date set. Then twenty-four hours on the road that would have sent most families straight home. Nearly five years later, Ashliy and Jake of WanderAboutFullTimeRV are still rolling in that very same rig. Jennifer met the full-time RV couple a...

Send us Fan Mail Beyond the Brand Is Sponsored by Tow Tether   If your trailer broke away at highway speed, you’d trust your breakaway cable to do its job. But where did you hook it up? Jennifer sits down with Andy Garcia, co-founder of Tow Tether, to unpack a towing safety gap most RVers don’t realize exists. What began as a fleet compliance fix for a concrete company grew into a simple, made-in-...