Congaree National Park, a Most Unusual Campground Rule, and More | RV Miles Podcast Episode 195
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
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RV Miles Podcast 195 | Congaree National Park:
It’s one of our smallest national parks - is it worth a visit? We visit Congaree National Park, plus, proper lubrication of weight distribution hitches, an update on that General RV situation, and more.
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Welcome to episode 195 of the RV Miles Podcast! This week we are headed to Congaree National Park to recap our time in one of the smallest NPS units, plus our campground review that had a rule that, in all the years we have been traveling, we've never seen before. If you've got thoughts on the topics covered this week, let us know in the comments and don't forget to subscribe and give this video a thumbs up. See you next week! - Jason and Abby
Aww. Jason!! I teared up, too. So nice to see your loving, cohesive relationship
Abby is Jason’s fresh tank!!! 🥰🥰🥰
Regretfully, the problem of dumping trash in National Forests isn't a new one. In the 1970's I was a Scoutmaster who took his Troop hiking on the Appalachian Trail in the Chattahoochee National Forest in north Georgia. At the end of the weekend we arrived at the gap where the parents were going to pick us up a few hours early. As the parents of 3 boys, I'm sure you appreciate that you never leave boys without an organized activity. I had a box of large black plastic bags and an Idea. I told the Troop that the patrol that gathered the most trash out of the woods would get ice cream at Dairy Queen on the way home!
What a mistake. In less than an hour they filled up 30 large black plastic bags and were still dragging trash out of the woods and piling it near the trash cans. When the first parent arrived I had them drive me to a nearby store and bought two more boxes of bags. We filled 90 bags of trash that day - and could have filled more.
Talk about a practical lesson for the Scouts!!!
Thank you for your service. Other RVers have also cleaned up their campsite, made foul, by other campers. We always carry out what we carry in, plus a bit more, if needed.
Jason, what a thoughtful thing to say about your wonderful wife!! You made me cry too!!
So sweet of Jason at the end.
That was awesome Jason!! and I’m with you Abby I’m satisfied with a Starbucks and hanging out with the family ,happy Mother’s Day to you
Those cypress trees have “knees” which are specialized roots. These roots are the trees way of absorbing air since their other roots are underwater.
Enjoy your shows.
When you guys smile you light up the screen. And it’s thanks to you all that I bought a bunch of LLbean gear this last year. So pass that on to your sponsor:)
Happy Mother's Day! 💐
Happy Mother’s Day! Enjoy your content.
Thank you!
I appreciate most of your videos, short and long. Listening to the longer videos gives me a more comprehensive understanding of RV life. Thank you both for your contribution. BTW - Please keep the gnome in your videos; he's a great addition.
I have enjoyed your podcasts. Our family are first time RVers and will be starting out as soon as school is over. Your information has made planning our first venture much easier. Thanks to you both and keep the episodes coming!!
Oh my! Some useful things here, and a bit more 'drama' than I'm accustomed to. Thanks for sharing.
Abbey, Ihope you are keeping a journal about all these little tidbits, campgrounds etc. One day your children will love reading your thoughts, because we know children and adults view their world a little different. Enjoyed this video as it brought back some good memories from our first “young and dumb” cross country trip with two kids under 12, in a pickup camper in summer to Calif, no air cond. in either the camper or truck, dry counties, no Sunday beer sales. Boondocked on the Eel River in the Redwoods and Bigfoot stole our cookies 🤣, our story and sticking to it. Best National Lampoon Vacation ever. That was over 40 years ago. We started going in our 20’s and no plans to stop, 👍🇺🇸
Abby and Jason great update video! Thanks for the update! Happy Mother’s Day to you Abby! Safe travels! Zoe and Ramón
Thank you! -Abby
This was one of my favorite episodes! As always you’re fun and informative but Jason... Wow, when you chose Abby for your fresh tank I even gasped and teared up right along with her 🥰. You guys are awesome 👏
Thanks so much!!
With the General RV thing, some of the paperwork says 240 months of payments and one says 119 plus a huge balloon payment. Their statement was COLD. They have no plans of helping these people. That's unfortunate.
What a great community and business you found!!! Love them giving food to the needy just to be generous!! So happy to hear these stories!!!
"It's Mother's Day. The least I could do is make you cry."
Jasons fresh tank was the best!!
Happy mothers day abby. awww. Love you, God Bless ya
Happy Mother’s Day everybody!
Happy Mother’s Day 👩 Enjoy a fabulous day!!🎁🎉🎈❤️
Thank you, and a very happy day to you as well. ❤️
Great job, Jason.
We spent a couple days in Glacier in 2017. We thought we were doing the good thing by taking the shuttle but ended up spending 3+ hours just waiting in line for shuttles on the way back to the west entrance late afternoon/early evening. I am 100% supportive of needing reservations to access the park in order to limit number of visitors even beyond 2021. Just don't make concrete plans to go there until you have your ticket or camping/lodging reservations :)
Hi Guys, love all your content. General RV:: I have worked in several roles and what happened seems obvious to me. I have to say, know your finances and what you can afford before you shop. This is the result of executives, not people on the front lines. The lending company wants to make loans and the RV dealership wants to sell RVs. When I was a lending officer we were REQUIRED to give a counter offer financing if the customer had committed to buy and the paper came from a dealership. Big down payment, balloon payment, high interest rates, and we were always surprised when customers took the counter offer. We felt slimy because and I think the salespeople felt bad too - but the customer went home with whatever they were buying; car, RV, boat, etc. Dealerships will threaten lending companies to withdraw their business if there is too high a decline rate, or at least they used to. Simple math would let that person know that they could not buy that RV using that number of $X payments. Also, General RV and lender are probably between a rock and a hard spot because they can't say - you had crappy credit but wanted an RV you could not afford. They could have been better wordsmiths. Cheers!
That is the sweetest thing that she gets to be the fresh Tech
It caught me 100% by surprise.
This was a great podcast. Loved it. That park you talked about seemed nice. Glad you won’t need to worry about getting campsites. Jason had me crying too Abby when he told you how good are with the family. I was crying with you Abby.. I agree with your black tank Abby about keeping BLMs clean. And that you were able to donate food to a good cause. I would have done the same. Jason loved your black tank too. It’s both the customer and the sale people no communication. If that’s the case. Hopefully General will be ok. And the customers too. Hope Abby had a great Mother’s Day! 🌷💐Here sone more flowers for Abby.!
Dumping trash isn't only happening in National Forests -- taking my dog for a walk every day results in a grocery bag of trash -- we don't go on a long walk. For some reason trash has become someone else's problem everywhere.
Okay, Abby, I went to Apple podcast, subscribed and left you a 5 star review. I hope it helps! :) Love the park and campground advice you give!
I agree that public lands should be kept clean but I don't agree that the areas should be shutdown when trash is out of hand. My opinion is that there should be garbage cans available at the entrances and additional areas to put trash. It probably wouldn't help with everyone but the decent people would use the trash cans.
Wouldn't it be great if at least one of the boys became your photographer? Even if it was b-roll, I think that would help to enhance your program because it would give you more time to produce even more RV and travel content.
Oh I got that one right off the bat... !!.. ;)
I’m a fairly new subscriber and love your content. Hearing your thoughts about taking your children to different places has been informative and fun. Thank you for sharing your experiences and especially for the news episodes. Have a great week!
Thanks, Hal! We hope you have a great week too.
We enjoyed your podcast again, Abby/Abbey your black tank shows that there’s a lot of disrespectful people who don’t care about anyone else. I agree with you that the person who has to clean that outdoor potty will need a hasmat suit. People who are doing that are causing a lot of BLM sites to stop over night stays. Those people hurt all of the good people. I love your fresh tank, if Everyone had the wonderful gesture that that woman had this world would be a better place. & the table at laundry mat that had non perishable food for anyone in need & what you done by going to the grocery store & buying non perishable food & added to what was there brought tears of joy two thumbs up to you, Jason your fresh tank, awesome two thumbs up to you. And if the both of you have Mothers that are still living, thank them daily. Also Jason thank your wife & praise her daily. I got my wife December 1974, she was Sweet 16, I was Sweet 19. Our marriage is getting better with age & better than a fine wine
We live about 12 miles from Congaree National Park and are so happy y’all liked it! One of the more remarkable things to see there is see are the synchronous fireflies - flashing off and on together, all at the same time. Evenings in late May every year, the park rangers lead tours through the swamp boardwalk and forest.
Admission is only by lottery due to covid and social distancing requirements last year and again in 2021. But this sight is so the remarkable, y’all should definitely put it on your bucket list radar to swing back thru. Please check out the NPS website for details.
Orangeburg may not be the bustling metropolis of Columbia, but if you look, there are gems there, too. Edisto Gardens, a quaint downtown, and SC State, plus you’re only an hour away from the state capitol full of museums, parks, and great local food/dinning, not to mention the state’s largest university - the UofSC.
Hope y’all enjoy Charleston - check out Awendaw Green on Wednesday night. Remarkable local music in Awendaw with world-renowned talent - north on 17 toward McClellanville and Georgetown. (If it’s open, go eat at The Wreck in Mount Pleasant) Again so glad y’all are here and we appreciate your videos. Wishing you safe travels!
Well The Wreck was secret…
You guys are great! All these years I’ve followed about a dozen full timers (which I have been for over 4 years, mostly stationary now... old age caught up to me! lol)
You’re now my favorite y far and away! Really. Going to research ( check up on you guys!) more now. Heading to FB See ya there!
Be safe!!
That’s awesome, Bob! Thanks for such a nice comment and we look forward to chatting with you here, on FB and wherever else we might see you. All the best! Abby
There are lots of exemptions for entering Glacier. So, if someone already has a trip booked, they just need to visit the nps.gov website to figure out a solution that fits their situation. For example, you can arrive before 6am or after 5pm. You can arrive on foot. You can make a reservation for horseback riding, etc. Lots of ways around it.
Thank you two.
Very welcome!
I've never met a park ranger involved in the junior ranger program that wasn't absolutely wonderful and completely flexible as long as you communicated that you were there for the education.
We've met a couple that come across like they're giving out actual law enforcement badges - but most are like you said, absolutely wonderful.
There's still cool places to go that aren't crowded. Example: Valley of Fire, Gold Butte, Red Rocks and Lake Mojave. Yes, these are in Nevada (Nevada is what I know) Yellowstone is FULL. But places like that ^^ are not. Consider secondary locations. They are all over out there.
Glad you enjoyed Congaree NP too. We did the boardwalk trail last November. No green or standing water then. Spiders instead of caterpillars. How were the mosquitoes?
Great, great episode today! Love your banter and the back and forth between you guys. Very well done. Do you guys work from a script? The Tank talks were very interesting today not to say disturbing ie the pit toilet in Idaho park. How can folks be so thoughtless?! My guess is that their homes are probably just as disgusting! Unfortunately, the problem is probably going to increase as more people will use camping as a viable option to escape COVID restrictiveness. (Is that a word?). I have seen so many videos from others who are reporting the same issues...anyway, thanks for yr insights! Keep up the good work!
You need to talk about fuel ⛽️ while traveling. Wonderful new Government may impinge on Rving. Thx Love your program
I visited Congaree last year and saw the signs that said NO OVERNIGHT STAYS.
I was in my campervan and was very disappointed.
I wonder if those National Parks tickets are going to be the same situation as some campground reservations, where people book many visits and end up cancelling at the last minute.
When I commented on the scaping of our weight distribution bars to my dealer, they sold me some plastic spacers that clip onto the mounts. It cut the annoying sound of metal on metal down to barely anything. I do have a question I'd love to hear you address. How do you feel about using cruise control while pulling your travel trailer? Thanks Abby and Jason! Keep Wandering!! Thx, Ken
We left Zion in Utah only to land in Bakersfield CA. Damn, what a mess Bakersfield was. We stayed at a lovely campground on the Kern river, State park, and it was beautiful. the city park next to it. Shit hole. People didn't care it was awful. I like the bag idea. We'll have trash pick up days going forward.
How fast can you paddle, if you’re running by a reported snake. That would be something to see after you actually see a snake at near eye level.
@ 44:20 we all need to be a "Pit Boss" ! Taking trash in???
The trees you're referring to are Cypress trees and the small shoots are called Cypress knees. People like to remove them and carve images in the knees but it's against the law to remove Cypress knees for any reason. And how sad is it people are forced to explore outdoors and be burdened with wearing a diaper on their face!
Speaking of trash at campsites. I picked up 10 pounds of nails and screws in my campsite. Only locals haul wood scraps and pallets for campfires.
So I wondering what is your take on the Hensley hitch I’ve heard great things but I don’t see many
Ha thanks for compliments:) we do not allow locals because they fill up the park and wewould not have room for out of state campers, y’all are to cute! Ha come back to see us!!!!
Did you visit the Congaree gift shop? If so, did you notice our laser engraved wooden ornaments, magnets or keychains?
We barely stepped foot in! I wish we would have looked!
Cypress knees for respiration
According to the park service, that's just one theory. Another is that they're for stability.
Jason quick question I recently bought passport America membership and found that a lot of campgrounds don’t give the discount in the summer???
Yeah, they all have different rules about their discounts, unfortunately
Many years ago I went through Glacier on U.S. 2. Are you talking about that route?
It looks like 2 goes through south end of Glacier. Pretty sure that isn't the Going to the Sun Road.
Ok thanks, it was still lovely drive.
y'all are just too cute....
Come on guys I used to clean foreclosed properties. Two or three bags I'd have that cleaned up in about 30 minutes. Try cleaning up a pile of maggots that filled a two-gallon bucket. Now that was gross. My wife and I pick up trash everywhere we go. Take a walk take a bag with you. I do enjoy your channel though
No, “habit”
A car dealership tried to rip me off on a used car purchase. They had etched vin on all windows to deter theft. There was an item on my contract asked if I was paying for this they said no. Later I got out a calculator I was paying for it and their were major issues with their phone system. So I called their customer service number explain the problems I was having with the financing and the finance manager threatening to deposit checks that I did not have the funds for which were posted it along with an issue with the brakes on the car said they said it was due to rain which it was not. So I called the 800 number and explain my issues and they said they would have the general manager give me a call back which he did within an hour from his cell phone because their phone system didn’t work and kept on disconnecting people. He then got everything straightened out and required The finance manager to meet with me because he tried to rip me off. I Think it’s a problem with any kind of vehicle sale beware or get ripped off
HABIT
My wife says the answer is Habit
☑️
Habit
It doesn’t matter who has the original copy of a contract but the original copy rules over any additional marks the carbon shows. Only if the original shows markings that are not on the carbon does the carbon stand as proof to argue the contract from the carbon holder side. (That doesn’t seem to be the case at general rv from what I see).
There are a lot of people who don’t fully understand what actually happened because they are relying on a news piece bias to one side of the story and not the facts.
I learned what I know about this situation from the multiple independent news reports and learned absolutely nothing from your comment... sounds like what you are trying to say is that the original should be invalid because it doesn't match the unmolested carbon copy? Or that in most cases that would be true but for some reason not at General RV as if they have laws apply to them differently? What are you talking about?!?!?
Is it “rabbit”?
I have only been a subscriber for a short while now and really enjoy most of your videos. Your shorter ones that are topic specific are the best. However, I usually do not watch your weekly, longer videos. I have tried hard. But here I am only 5:12 into your video and have stopped to write this comment. I am indeed interested in all/most of the topics, but you tend to drag them out with receptiveness and unnecessary comments. I suggest that you should have the goal of the same number of topics with a total max video length of 25 minutes. I really do appreciate the RV news you share when you keep it short and to the point :)
Hey Soccer Dad, we appreciate the comment, and taking the time to watch. This particular weekly episode is a video version of a podcast, and like many other podcasts (which are audio shows, much like a talk radio show), they tend to be about an hour in length, covering numerous topics inside that hour like an hour long TV talk show, or radio show). Perhaps if you go into it with that mind set, you might enjoy the show more, or you may not. The length of the RV Miles Podcast has been since episode 1 (and we are now on episode 195), an hour long. Maybe some day that will change, but for now, it works for us and for our audience. We'll continue to share content here on RUclips that varies in length, so just know that the Sunday morning RV Miles Podcast may not be the video for you. That said, maybe try giving it a listen on a podcast app, like Apple Podcast or Spotify. You may enjoy it more as an audio version as you're driving around running errands, etc. Be well and thanks! Abby
General RV 34:03
100% agree on the statement. I too think there's a good possibility this was isolated BUT when you react confrontationally and with only legal care you give yourself a bad reputation. That's bad no matter what shakes out in the end.