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RV Navigator

Ken & Martha, The RV Navigators

The digital home for RVers. RVing is not camping anymore. It has evolved into a high tech life style that requires maintaining many technology systems. This podcast addresses the myriad issues that arise while traveling in an RV. The podcasters travel extensively in their RV, so they can share their experiences with listeners in a fun and interesting style. Contact us at rvnavigator@mac.com

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RV Navigator Episode 247 -Alaska in the Rear View Mirror

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2025/10/31

We’ve been on the road 85 days for the round trip to Alaska, but finally we returned home without incident. The final leg of the trip allowed us to visit Jasper and Banff for 6 days before making the final push to Chicago. This month we had a final exit interview with Chris and Jean from an earlier episode as they share their impressions of the trip.

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RV Navigator Episode 246 -Alaska: the Caravan Ends

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2025/10/01

We’ve ended up back in Dawson Creek where we started the RV caravan 63 days ago. After a brief introduction by your RV Navigators, we invite fellow caravaners to join in the debriefing. This is the same group that shared their hopes for the trip 2 months ago. See what they think about this buck list destination in this months episode.**The episode webpage will be slow in appearing this month due to some technical issues with the web site, sorry.

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RV Navigator Episode 245 -ODing on Beauty

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2025/09/01

At this midpoint in our Alaska caravan, we draw on the experiences of our fellow travelers to broaden the Alaska perspective. We are joined in interviews with Chris & Jean and Kevin and Jennifer to gain their insights into Alaska caravanning. As one of our guest commented, we’ve all ODed on beauty. Alaska is lived up to expectations with many stunning experiences for all in our group.

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RV Navigator Episode 244 -Road to Alaska

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2025/08/02

Alaska 25 is this months adventure. We begin our 2 month long caravan to the 50th state. After driving over 2000 miles we are at the beginning of the Alaska highway that is the gateway to Alaska. The podcast will change a bit for the next couple of months as we try to give listeners a picture of the Alaska experience. This is a bucket list trip for many so we are encompassing as many viewpoints as we can to give a accurate picture of the sight and sounds of Alaska. Joins us and our companions

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RV Navigator Episode 243 -Planning the Long RV Trip

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2025/07/01

As we plan for our upcoming 3 month long motorhome trip to Alaska and back, we thought that it might be helpful to share some of our planning ideas. We have done several extended trips over the years, so the planning has become second nature, but many listeners may be contemplating such a trip, so here are some of our tips and tricks for making the trip go smoothly.We will be taking you with us as we travel the 10,000 miles r/t to Alaska. Martha will be blogging daily as we make the journey. Her

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RV Navigator Episode 242 -Hawaii + Spring

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2025/05/31

Ending our April cruise in Maui (Hawaii), we headed home to Chicago for the duration of the spring. We did take a short flight to Orlando to close on our new (to us) house at the Great Outdoors (TGO) that will be our winter home starting in 2026. This house has a nice RV port which will give our aging MH a covered parking space during the off months. We chat about many RVing topics as our attention turns to RVing in the summer. Cooling your RV and fridge topics as well as the latest tech issues

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RV Navigator Episode 241 -Navigating the South Pacific

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2025/05/01

This month finds us sail the warm waters of the South Pacific around Tahiti. We share our many impressions of this area and compare it to our next destination, Hawaii. Many assume that Tahiti and Hawaii are similar destinations but in fact they are significantly different. Hear our impressions and suggestions for Polynesian travel. Of course RVing is always on our minds, so we share new websites, articles and topic of interest from the RVing world.. Project Kuiper (Amazon) is about to launch a

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RV Navigator Episode 240 -New Home for the Motorhome

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2025/04/01

We never intended to buy a house in FL, but this month we ended up with a new home for the motorhome at our RV resort in Titusville, FL. We explain the decision and details in this month’s episode as move ahead on buying this new abode in FL. The sale is not final until mid-May, so we headed North to Chicago just in time to leave on our next adventure, a cruise in Tahiti and Hawaii. The weather being what it is, the MH needed to be winterized while it sits in the cold in Chicago., We’ll not be

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RV Navigator Episode 239 - Insurance swap

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2025/03/05

Just another month stuck in FL -LOL. Your RV Navigators have had several interesting RV projects in the works from getting new RV insurance to looking a new hot skin devices for RVs to speculating about the staff cuts at National Parks. What does the new T-Mobile Starlink direct to cell service mean for the average cell user? These an many other topics are covered in this months episode. Join us and then make a comment.

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RV Navigator Episode 238 - Buying & Fixing

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2025/02/01

RVin full time this month we travel to the Tampa RV Supershow and have some windows replaced on the MH. Join us for the details as well as the many adventures that intervened.

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RV Navigator Episode 237 - Welcoming in 2025

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2025/01/01

After a busy fall, we spent the month at our home base near Chicago. As you know we don’t enjoy the cold, so after the Christmas holidays we once again headed south for most of the winter. We rang in the New Year in our motorhome in FL with a NYE ball drop party from 7-9 pm - it is after all midnight somewhere! January will find us at the Tampa RV Supershow. If you have a chance to attend, it is one of the best RV shows in the country. However this year has brought some major changes so well if

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RV Navigator Episode 236 - Thanksgving on the Atlantic

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2024/12/01

This month finds us at sea for the entire month. Sail the med and ending in Fort Lauderdale, we skip the long transatlantic flight for 9 days of sailing the open ocean. If have the time, it is very relaxing trip. We want to wish al our listeners a great holiday season as we look forward to the new year. We’ve attached some RV gift lists for your consideration. We wonder if the almost total band on new MH sales in CA will take effect in 2025. CA pllus 5 other states have put strick pollution

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RV Navigator Episode 235 - A Bohemian Adventure

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2024/11/01

We left shortly after the last podcast for a land adventure in Eastern Europe. After 3 weeks of travel, we are ready to share our experiences on the podcast. We’ve been traveling with 13 fellow travelers to the Czech Republic and other close by countries formerly part of the eastern block. The adventure has been eye openning, but we also chat about some interesint RV topics and the latest technology. Have you used whispers(?), do you have plans for snowbirding in the South. These plus many other

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RV Navigator Episode 234 - The Slow Road South

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2024/10/01

Finally back on the road in the RV, we travel to FL on a round about itinerary that included stops in Michigan, Ohio, South Carolina and Georgia before our final stop in Titusville, FL. September is a great weather month in these northerly states so we took advantage of fall (before the colors) to slowly drive south. A major stop along the way was in Gaffney. Not a tourist stop but an important MH stop for this is the home of Freightliner - the maker of our chassis. We found the important of

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RV Navigator Episode 233 - Think small

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2024/09/01

“According to Nielsen's recent podcast analysis, the number of Americans listening to podcasts has increased by 45% in the last five years alone - more than doubling in the past decade to reach 183m people.”https://content.nielsen.com/PodcastingToday Your RV Navigators are waiting for the money to come knocking, but even though we have been podcasting for 18 continuous years, alas we have not been offered the big bucks mentioned in the article above. We continue because we love our listeners

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RV Navigator Episode 232 - Off the Grid

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2024/08/01

This month’s big project was upgrading our battery bank to lithium batteries. We added about 1000 amps of battery power to our rig in the conversion process. The upgrade process for a motorhome involvees much more than just swappng out the physical batteries. We now have all new electitic 12 volt monitoring system. Because we have a diesel engine with 12 volt needs, we have to have the proper interface for the engine side. We also added a solar panel into the mix. A 24 hour test of the new

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RV Navigator Episode 231 - By Land & Sea

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2024/07/02

As most of our listeners know, we’ve traveled most of the US (and Canada) in our RV. We have been to New England, NE Canada on several RV trips. Always enjoyable. Our current adventure is via cruise ship with an itinerary from NYC north through the St. Lawrence to Quebec. Approaching this itinerary from the water side proved to be a different experience. After this topic, we discuss several RV issues including new happenings with Starlink, and a follow up on the Tesla pickup for RV

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RV Navigator Episode 230 - $Good as New$

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2024/06/01

It is officially summer and the camping season has begun - but we’ll let the family RVers have first dibs on the campgrounds. We’ll be home for most of the summer. This month we share many RV topics of interest as well as what’s new with starlink and other on the road internet services.

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RV Navigator Episode 229 - Digging for Diamonds

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2024/05/01

On the road this month on a 2400 mile trip north over 2 weeks. We visited some bucket list and out of the way destinations such as Crater of Diamonds State Park and Crystal Bridges Art Museum in Arkansas. These plus a couple of old favorite camping spots kept us busy for the month.

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RV Navigator Episode 228 - Amazon + Brazil

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2024/04/01

Another month of cruising. This time we are sailing up the coast of Brasil to do a full transit of the Amazon. This river is huge and worth the week we spent traveling to Manaus and back out to the Caribbean. The Amazon is a complete eco system unto itself with Manaus as the hub. A city of 2.5 million at the end of 1500 miles of river made viable by tax incentives for businesses to manufacture in the city. Our 27 cruise started in Rio and ended in Miami after a few additional stops in the

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