This week on the RV Podcast:
- How NOT to expire of meds on an RV Journey
- Troubleshooting tricks to make RV life simpler on the street
- One other state is contemplating giving again a state park to the native American tribe they stole it from
- All this plus the RV Information of the Week and your questions developing in Episode #486 of the RV Podcast
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Testing out a number of Class Bs
We’re again in Florida for a bit of bit. We’ll be doing a little testing of some Class Bs – sure, you learn that proper – Class Bs – for the following few weeks.
We’re doing this in cooperation with Nick Schmidt, of Sunshine State RVs in Gainsville, FL. The undertaking took place after we bumped into Nick finally January’s RV Supershow in Tampa. Nick is an outdated good friend, going again for over a decade now. He runs one of many high Class B dealerships within the nation and he remembers our roots, once we first began out.
Again then, and for the primary a number of years of our RV life-style, we have been strictly in Class Bs. We moved on from that to B+ vans, Class C motorhomes, and Fifth Wheels.
Nick instructed we take one other have a look at Class Bs, so we’re up on all the brand new manufacturing options and expertise on as we speak’s B vans. We thought that seemed like a fantastic concept. So we’ll be trying out 5 – 6 of them over the following few weeks, doing quick tenting journeys with them and seeing what’s new.
We simply acquired the primary one we shall be reviewing – a Coachmen Nova.
That is the unit we’re testing this week above. For those who can look intently, you may see Bo checking it out simply contained in the open door.
We’ll maintain you updated on this enjoyable undertaking because it develops.
Summer season RV Life-style Gathering is Bought Out
We bought out our Summer season “Groove and Collect Meetup in Amish Nation with the Temptations occurring June 11-14 in Shipshewana, IN, however you may nonetheless get on the ready record – all the data is in our new Community.
And if you have not joined us over there but, why not give it a attempt? MUCH nicer than Fb… simply go the https://community.rvlifestyle.com
SOCIAL MEDIA BUZZ – Wendy Bowyer
Wendy Bowyer studies on the recent points most talked about this previous week on social media and our RV Lifestyle Community group.
Over in our RVLifestyle Community‘s Troubleshooting house, we requested people to share a unique hack they’ve used to maintain their rig functioning.
Frederick really useful two issues that he mentioned made the RV a lot simpler to handle: The LevelMatePRO to find out essentially the most stage spot on the campsite after they drive in after which to guarantee they’re stage. He additionally really useful Mopeka tank sensors to observe propane utilization. Nice ideas!
Inca instructed creating and following checklists. A upkeep guidelines has labored notably effectively for her.
And Paul mentioned he put in a 4 x 4 PVC fence publish on the rear bumper to carry the smelly slinky, and there have been different useful concepts on this thread.
Then over in our Group’s Touring with Pets House, Betsy requested if anybody ever needed to get their dog a flu shot with the intention to board it.
Lynnette lives on the West coast and mentioned she had by no means heard of a canine influenza vaccine till they have been camped close to Boston in 2019.
Randall mentioned he had not heard of a canine flu shot however does keep in mind a canine respiratory illness going round.
And Patricia mentioned the canine flu has been slowly spreading and when you do want to depart your canine whereas on the street, she discovered the most effective kennels have been requiring it. Numerous good info for these RVing with their canine.
In the meantime over in our RVLifestyle Facebook Group, Eric requested for recommendation about Badlands boondocking spots. He mentioned they have been planning to spend one evening in July alongside the street boondockers name both the Wall Dispersed Space or Nomad View Dispersed. It’s close to the Badlands Nationwide Park in South Dakota. He was on the lookout for those that had expertise boondocking there and questioned how exhausting it is likely to be to seek out an open house in July.
Effectively, Eric acquired greater than 150 feedback, with many individuals sharing attractive footage of their rig on this spot. Invoice was certainly one of many who mentioned there have been so many superior spots to in a single day it appeared not possible for the whole lot to replenish. A number of mentioned the place is nice however cautioned it may be windy, and typically it isn’t simple to discover a stage location.
However many mentioned the massive factor to know is that this place is so epic, you are going to wish to keep a couple of evening.
RV INTERVIEW OF THE WEEK – Do not Run out of your Meds on an RV Journey
Every single day, it appears, we hear from RVers who’re planning lengthy journeys or contemplating going full time they usually ask, How can I make sure that I can get my medicines when touring?
Not too long ago we realized a couple of medical firm that not solely prescribes a 12 months’s price of important medicines for issues like coronary heart, thyroid, or different persistent illnesses, however 5 of essentially the most generally prescribed antibiotics and extra.
Within the podcast, we discuss at size to the proprietor and founding father of Jase Medical, Dr. Shawn Rowland.
This is an edited transcript of the interview:
What’s Jase Medical?
Mike
Effectively, Dr. Sean joins us proper now. It is a pleasure to have you ever on this system. Hey, inform us how this works. Stroll us via this entire concept that you simply got here up with and the way this factor works.
Dr. Shawn Rowland
Mainly, Jase Medical is a service that exists to empower folks on a person stage to be higher ready medically. Sadly, right here in america, we’re experiencing shortages. We expertise them throughout all completely different points of our lives, however we’re additionally experiencing them within the medical world, whether or not that involves us via entry to medicines and even simply entry to our physician. And so we have created this course of. It’s a telemedicine course of.
How Does this Work?
For us, the method is that this you come to our web site, you fill out a few varieties which are fairly primary. As a doctor, I need not know the whole lot about your loved ones historical past or all of your surgical histories. I simply have to ensure that these medicines are going to be protected and acceptable for you.
So the questionnaire is admittedly guided in the direction of that finish and it is fairly direct and primary. However you fill out that type, it’d take you 5 minutes, possibly 10 on the most. That type goes to a doctor who evaluations it. And if they’ve questions, they will attain out and ask you, possibly by way of e-mail or textual content. If not, typically they’re able to simply get what they want from the shape itself.
And they’ll then situation these prescriptions. And what they’re issuing are prescriptions for issues like antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals, issues that if you want them, you want them immediately. You are touring round, you do not know the place the closest pressing care is, and you do not know the place to then go get your medicines from a pharmacy.
Perhaps it is after hours, possibly you are in a rural space. So having these medicines available on the time you want them is what’s key right here. In order that they write these prescriptions, they ship it to certainly one of our pharmacies. We have a community of pharmacies that we have labored actually exhausting to get the most effective pricing from.
After which the pharmacy will ship that order proper out to your door. So actually it is meant that you are able to do it from the consolation of anyplace. So long as you’ve got acquired the web with a mobile phone or a pc, you are able to do this course of in 5 or 10 minutes after which have these medicines delivered to your door.
How Do I Use these Drugs?
Mike
Let me ask you about two explicit areas. One, I’ve the JASE case right here, and that has the antibiotics. Discuss that. I assume that within the strategy of filling out the shape, when you have an allergy to certainly one of these, it comes up. However how good are these antibiotics for, and the way do we all know which one to make use of?
Dr. Shawn Rowland
There is a purpose why they are a prescription medicine. They should be used accurately for the appropriate sicknesses. And also you talked about allergy symptoms. In order that is a vital a part of this course of, which is why it requires the physician’s involvement. They’re highly effective medicines.
That is how I sort of began this entire course of. If there was a state of affairs – whether or not it was a pure catastrophe, one thing catastrophic – I am minimize off from or I haven’t got entry to a pharmacy anymore, what medicines would I would like? What sorts of issues are the extra widespread issues I’ll have so far as an sickness? Issues like urinary tract infections, pores and skin infections, chunk wounds, and traveler’s diarrhea.
What are the extra widespread issues I’d encounter in that state of affairs? And so I wanna have protection for that. However then additionally in that sort of a state of affairs like that the place you are really minimize off, it is catastrophic. We additionally wanna cowl a few of the most dangerous issues as a result of we’re gonna see illnesses that we’d not have been used to seeing earlier than. Issues like bio-terror, for instance. So these are lethal illnesses, 100 % deadly. And we wished to create a package that might cowl from the most typical to additionally essentially the most lethal.
And so there’s 5 antibiotics in that Jase package that you simply held up. These 5 antibiotics cowl all of these issues. The record actually is admittedly fairly in depth. Dozens of various infections may be coated by these medicines.
How have you learnt which of them to make use of? For those who’re capable of get ahold of a healthcare skilled over the cellphone or nevertheless you want to they usually say, man, seems such as you’ve acquired a nasty case of cellulitis. You have acquired a pores and skin an infection. This is the antibiotic it is best to take. This is how usually.
Effectively, you say, nice, I’ve already acquired it in my package. And now I understand how to take it.
If you do not have that particular person in entrance of you, possibly you may get them in another approach, cellphone, e-mail. Perhaps you’ve got acquired a trusted good friend who’s a well being care skilled that may information you.
And if you do not have that what you are left with is that this e book that we have written. The e book comprises all of the medicines which are included and is written in layman’s phrases,
OK, you’ve got acquired these signs. Say you simply acquired bitten by a canine or a cat. What do I do? You flip to the part on bites. It will let you know to go to this medicine, take it this usually, and search for these indicators of an infection. After which possibly there are occasions when it isn’t acceptable to take the antibiotic. And then you definitely’d be inspired to not.
In order that’s how you recognize what to take and when to take it. You talked about allergy symptoms only a transient point out on that course of via the telemedicine course of that occurs on a regular basis folks will point out, hey doc I am allergic to penicillin. Effectively one of many medicines in that package that you simply’re holding up is a penicillin by-product it is known as amoxicillin.
And so when you’re allergic to that medicine, the physician will decide primary, is it an actual allergy? And quantity two, whether it is, let’s swap it out.
So we’ll swap it out for one thing just like the field you are holding out, which is azithromycin. That azithromycin covers quite a lot of the identical issues. It is a Z -Pak. Lots of people have heard of that. Covers quite a lot of the identical issues as amoxicillin. And they also’ll provide you with an additional Z -Pak or possibly make a special substitution.
However on the finish of the day, it is custom-tailored to be protected for you together with these directions. And from that package, you may add on, I believe we’re as much as 34 further medicines that you may add to that primary package of 5 antibiotics.
Mike
Now this has a number of implications, after all, to RVers who usually are gone for a protracted time frame and certainly are in distant areas. Generally you are far faraway from locations the place you may shortly get to an pressing care heart. These meds simply look like a no brainer to have in your package.
However you’ve gotten another issues that I believe are actually necessary. One of the vital widespread questions we get from our viewers is, I am on the street full time, or I am gone for the following seven months. What is the best approach to have sufficient of my medicines available? You even have a process the place you may get them for long run. Clarify that for us.
What’s the Jase Case Every day Service?
Dr. Shawn Rowland
Yeah, so we have been speaking in regards to the JASE Case service or product. That’s these emergency-type medicines. The opposite half of the corporate is our JACE day by day service. The JASE day by day is simply what it feels like. These are medicines that you could be take every day or regularly. And so what we do is we provide, so long as you meet sure standards the place our physicians can really feel comfy offering a long-term provide.
And what that’s is principally a 12 months provide of your blood strain medicine, of your thyroid medicine, no matter that situation is, they will present a full 12 months provide.
And so there’s a few, you recognize, stipulations to that. They wish to ensure that that is, it isn’t a brand new situation. That is one thing you’ve got had for some, a while. It is one thing that you have had a dose that is been steady at. And so they know you’ve got acquired common follow-ups along with your physician.
And so in that case, then yeah, you go on the service, you record the meds that you are taking and those you are all for getting a provide of. It is the identical course of. It goes to a physician who evaluations it, goes to the pharmacy, and also you get that 365-day provide.
Now, and that is most likely a query, we’ll simply take care of it now. So far as the fee and how one can pay for this, as a result of we’re doing this prolonged provide, whether or not that is the 365-day provide of JASE day by day or provide of medicines like our JASE case the place you are not truly, you do not even have the urinary tract an infection. You are not seeing the physician proper there with signs.
So these are issues that insurance coverage isn’t going to cowl. So this can be a money system. And that is why I went again to how exhausting we have negotiated with the pharmacies to get this pricing the place this nonetheless is an reasonably priced factor. And it seems you may get a 12 months’s provide of quite a lot of these medicines for a reasonably affordable price.
Now, there are specific brand-name medicines that is likely to be on that record which are going to be fairly costly, however for essentially the most half, they’re all generic medicines that almost all of us devour every day, they usually’re very accessible price-wise.
Something Not Accessible?
Mike
What medicines cannot you get a 12 months’s provide of?
Dr. Shawn Rowland
We do not take care of any managed substances. And there is simply exhausting and quick guidelines on the subject of the DEA, when people who find themselves taking narcotic medicines, medicines like hormone substitute and your ADHD sort of medicines, these we’re unable to supply within the service. However we do have about 700 we offer, with extra added on a regular basis.
Mike
What about insulin, for instance?
Dr. Shawn Rowland
Yeah, so keep tuned. We’re very shut on with the ability to supply the complete vary of varied injectable insulins. That is been much more sophisticated. It needs to be shipped refrigerated and there is temperature management that has to occur.
And the insulin goes from low cost to extraordinarily costly and coping with this, these quantities is one thing that the pharmacies hadn’t needed to take care of earlier than. And so we have labored out this downside and actually any day now we’ll have an answer for insulin.
Mike
So the way in which to seek out out about all that is clearly to go to the web site via https://rvlifestyle.com/JaseCase And by the way in which, I believe we even have a $10 low cost that we are able to supply folks as an affiliate, as a person of these items ourselves.
Final Query: You talked about the shortages and the demand points. The world is a reasonably chaotic place. How does this match into all the uncertainty that we face out right here? Does it make sense for folks to get a 12-month provide? The medication aren’t going to lose their effectiveness?
Dr. Shawn Rowland
You hit on two issues there. One was simply the provision and what we foresee occurring sooner or later. And the opposite you simply touched on the tip there has to do with expiration dates. How lengthy are these good for?
So let’s simply get that one out of the way in which actually shortly. Within the case of the antibiotic medicines within the JACE case, these are particular medicines in that record have all been extensively studied by the federal government.
Seems that you simply get actually throughout the board with these antibiotics, a minimal of 5 years earlier than you actually see any degradation in high quality and effectiveness. However truly, it extends past that to as a lot as 15 plus years so long as they’re saved correctly.
And that simply implies that they’re stored in a cool, dry setting. Now, touring round, it may be exhausting to all the time do this. Perhaps you’ve got acquired them in your truck, your RV, and you have parked someplace and it will get actually heat. Warmth can diminish the life right here. You are not going to get that 5 plus years. Humidity can do the identical factor. So cool and dry is the important thing.
If not, then you definitely’re most likely left to the expiration date that it usually comes with, which is usually a couple of 12 months from the time you obtain the medicines.
Now for the opposite ones, you recognize, you bought a 12 months provide of these are medicines that hopefully you take day by day and then you definitely nonetheless get your refills. Perhaps they nonetheless come to your own home. You are getting these three-month refills. You have organized to proceed to get common refills. So that you all the time keep a recent provide when you’re in a position to make use of that inventory in a rotating approach.
Now to the touch on that first a part of your query, what is going on on with shortages?
What about Shortages?
That is one thing I actually should be apprehensive about. You realize, I am a doctor. I am not a salesman. It isn’t one thing that comes naturally to me. However right here I’m on the forefront representing this firm telling folks, hey, you want to have a look at this product. I truthfully imagine that it is, this isn’t a query of if (shortages) are going to occur, it is when.
And the rationale I say that’s as a result of I’ve already seen it so many instances. I’ve seen it in my very own non-public follow, working at hospitals the place we did not have entry to essentially necessary medicines. I hear about it day-after-day from sufferers who go to the pharmacy to select up a drugs they usually’re advised both it isn’t coming or to attend a day or two or three.
While you’re taking an antibiotic since you’re sick with an an infection, you may’t wait a day, not to mention two or three. So I’ve seen it.
After which there’s this: The FDA maintains a scarcity record. It used to have possibly a pair, possibly 10 or 20 medicines on there. It is now as much as 200 plus. Generally, it ideas over into the 300-plus medicines which are in scarcity on any given day.
We have now no manufacturing capability for generic medicines in america. Zero. And that 95 % of what we devour day-after-day is a generic medicine. All of it comes from China. Some come from India; some come from different nations. However even the opposite nations, for essentially the most half, are getting a key ingredient or what we name the lively pharmaceutical ingredient from China.
So the entire system is simply ripe for disruption anyplace alongside the chain from A to Z, whether or not it is the manufacturing facility in China, the substances they’re getting from that the FDA does not even know the place they arrive from. To allow them to’t supply this stuff to seek out options.
So I am going to simply depart it at that, which is that there is a historic precedent. I’ve skilled it. It isn’t going to get higher as a result of we’ve not achieved something to again this up. We’re not opening vegetation right here in america. We’re not opening them anyplace. There’s not some huge cash to be made in generic medicines. Nobody’s actually incentivized to do it from a financial perspective. And so the issue’s simply getting worse and worse. And it isn’t simply us. It is all the world.
We get emails from everywhere in the world from folks in the identical scenario. So if and when one thing does occur, we’re consistent with all the world and we’re all holding our arms out to locations like China and India, hoping that they will fill the orders.
And so for me, you recognize, that is simply not a place I wish to be in. I do not wish to be ready for somebody, whether or not it is the federal government, whether or not it is a overseas nation. I wish to have, I wish to be empowered. I wish to have these issues, these medicines for myself, for my household in order that I am not dependent.
Thanks for being our friends and for educating us on the should be ready.
Dr. Shawn Rowland
Anytime. Thanks for the privilege of being right here. I actually recognize it.
Mike
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RV NEWS OF THE WEEK
Visits to national park sites up 4 percent in 2023
Visits to the greater than 400 websites the Nationwide Park Service oversees have been up by 4% in 2023 from 2022, which works out to about 13 million extra visits.
A complete of 325.5 million recreation visits have been recorded in 2023, with the document set in 2016 at 330.97 million.
So what have been the highest spots? The highest 5 embrace The Blue Ridge Parkway, Golden Gate Nationwide Recreation Space, Nice Smoky Mountains Nationwide Park, Gateway Nationwide Recreation Space, and the Gulf Islands Nationwide Seashore.
The NPS additionally broke down the highest most visited nationwide parks.
That record, so as, contains the Nice Smoky Mountains Nationwide Park, Grand Canyon Nationwide Park, Zion Nationwide Park, Yellowstone Nationwide Park, and Rocky Mountain Nationwide Park.
If crowds aren’t your factor, try our story on the 9 greatest nationwide parks for RVing in solitude here.
Illinois may return state park to Potawatomi Nation who say the land was illegally taken from them nearly 200 years ago
An Illinois state park might quickly be returned to the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, who say the land was stolen from them illegally by the federal authorities within the 1830s.
A invoice was launched within the Illinois Home to proper historic wrongs over the Shabbona Lake State Recreation Space, which totals about 1,500 acres, and is known as after Chief Shabbona, additionally spelled Shab-eh-nay.
The state park contains some 150 campsites, over eight miles of mountaineering trails, fishing and boating.
The park is on land that belonged to the Chief, who left briefly to go to household in Kansas within the 1830s, and when he returned, this land had been illegally auctioned off and bought to settlers.
We thought this invoice was attention-grabbing, particularly because it follows a latest transfer in Minnesota to provide certainly one of its state parks to a neighborhood Indian nation, which we advised you about lately right here.
Two children walking near their California campground die in tragic accident
Two youngsters who have been tenting in a California campground on land managed by the Bureau of Land Administration died final week after falling into speeding water close to the Shasta Dam.
The kids have been mountaineering when a landslide occurred, dragging them into the water under, the place they died from accidents.
One of many youngsters was a California police corporal’s 8-year-old son, and the opposite baby has not but been recognized. Police imagine they have been strolling off path.
Landslides are uncommon on this a part of California, however the space had lately acquired rain.
New Mexico considering raising park and camping fees, charging non-state residents more
New Mexico is contemplating elevating its tenting, boating, and entrance charges in any respect 35 of its state parks.
Tenting charges have not risen since 1998, and boating charges are the identical since 1984. Park officers say they should increase them to raised cowl as we speak’s prices.
Under the proposal, tenting charges would rise from $10 to $20 an evening for a resident, $30 for a non-resident; electrical service from $4 to $10 an evening; water service from $0 to $10 an evening; and sewer from $4 to $10 an evening.
Those that wish to use a dump station solely would pay $10. Park entrance charges could be waived for state residents however rise from $5 to $10 for everybody else. Additionally, the New Mexico State Park annual tenting move could be eradicated.
New Mexico is a ravishing state, one we have camped in lots of instances. Hereis a narrative we did on the annual tenting move they’re now contemplating eliminating.
RV QUESTIONS OF THE WEEK
QUESTION: I used to be Pouring dish water down the bathroom and dropped a fork down the bathroom. Unable to see it and have to know how one can get it earlier than it causes an issue. – Janice
ANSWER: Once I do one thing like that folks all the time say I should not really feel too unhealthy as a result of a number of others have made the identical mistake. In order that’s what I’ll say to you, Janice. There is no such thing as a assure it will work, however that is what I’ve heard works.
Replenish the black tank to 75-80% and empty it. Then put a hose within the flush valve and use it to fill it up once more and flush once more. The fork is both going to move out with the strain into the sewer or it is going to lodge perpendicular to the valve.
In case you have a transparent plastic finish on the hose that goes within the sewer, possibly you’ll see the fork as it’s swept alongside. If not, see if the black tank valve opens and closes. If it does not, then chances are high the fork lodged within the valve.
If that’s the case, you need to use some tongs or a wire coat hanger to dislodge it into the hose. If none of those work, effectively, attempt all of it once more. The secret is to get quite a lot of water flowing out that hose.
However, if after a few black tanks emptying, you continue to aren’t certain the fork is out, don’t fear about it. It’s not going to do any critical injury.
The one situation could also be if it someway lodges in that again tank gate valve, and that you may repair with some tongs or a coat hanger as described above.
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