RV podcaster Kenny Phillips shares Belle's RV Adventures
RV podcaster Kenny Phillips shares Belle’s RV Adventures, the first of his books from his pooch’s perspective on traveling and seeing this wonderful land.
We also hear about a gadget that’ll help you park and move your travel trailer or fifth wheel with pushbutton ease.
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The Beyond the Wheel episode featuring Supersede RV Flooring
Tony’s take on the Supersede RV flooring (third section)
Our guest Lorne Moore-Crispin came to us from Parkit360
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Automated transcript of StressLess Camping RV podcast 367
Tony
Woof woof! Are you hounding me? This week we are pleased to introduce you to our friend Kenny Phillips.
Peggy
Kenny's not only an RVer, he's also the co-host of the Beyond the Wheel podcast.
Tony
Plus now Kenny is also an author with a new book from his dog Belle's perspective on their adventures in the desert.
Peggy
The desert is just the first of 10 destinations for Belle and Kenny. Plus we have a gadget that can take the stress out of backing your trailer into tight spaces.
Tony
We have this week's podcast along with the notes and stories that go with this episode, plus discounts, deals, helpful tips, and more at our home on the web, stresslesscamping.com.
Peggy
We really appreciate your likes and your shares, and we love that you are joining us today for episode 367. Stressless Camping.
Tony
Uh, I think I'm Tony.
Peggy
Uh, I think I might be Peggy.
Tony
Oh man, that makes us two RV industry veterans who travel part-time in a Rockwood Minilite, looking to share big adventures and help you with great tips, tricks, and discounts.
Peggy
Speaking of tips, yes, my hair is green. I spent the weekend with my nieces and hair always changes color with them.
Tony
Not mine, mine stays the same.
Peggy
So do not adjust your television set. The color is real.
Tony
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Peggy
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Tony
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Tony
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Tony
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Peggy
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Tony
Well, this week we got to speak with Kenny Phillips from the Beyond the Wheel podcast. When Kenny and I get together, It is not a short conversation.
Tony
And so without any further ado, let's hear what he has to say about being an author and an RVer of Belle's Adventure. We are very privileged to have our friend Kenny Phillips, who is the co-host of the Beyond the Wheel podcast, join us this week, as well as his co-author on a book. Kenny, welcome.
Kenny Phillips
Hey Tony, hi Peggy, thanks for having me on the show. I'm very, very excited to be here and chat with you guys.
Kenny Phillips
You know, I always like seeing you guys in person. This is the next best thing, you know, at least I can see you here. This is, you know, better than a phone call, but it's not as great, of course, as being at a show or something like that. But this is still awesome to see you guys.
Tony
Yeah, likewise.
Tony
We're always— it's always great to hang out, and our conversations are always quite lengthy.
Kenny Phillips
We're all talking.
Peggy
So Kenny is a— Kenny's a little bit of competition for us and in that has a podcast as well, and we'll talk about that. But, uh, what Kenny also does is RV, of course, and, uh, he and his partner Belle have written a book, so we'll talk about that. But let's start just with the RVing part.
Kenny Phillips
Sure. Yeah, I've been RVing— so in October it'll be 10 years that I have been RVing. Um, we started shopping for an RV 2 years before that, so I feel like I've been in RVing for a little while, but I I always tell people, like, my biggest regret of RVing is that I didn't start it soon enough. So I started RVing early 40s, and I wish— I just wish I would have started it sooner. I didn't know just how great it was.
Kenny Phillips
I didn't know how great community was in it, just the things that we would learn from the road and traveling. So yeah, we, we bought our first RV in January of 2017. It was a Winnebago. We shopped for 2 years before we actually made a purchase on it. And, uh, we're, we're a little unique in the sense that we, we got really lucky.
Kenny Phillips
So we bought our Winnebago in 2017 of January. Winnebago holds a rally in the summertime. So that summer we went to a Winnebago rally and just happened to meet the marketing team there, and we became Winnebago ambassadors. Oh, um, because we were living in our RV. We, we wound up living in our, our Winnebago for about 5 years, and at that time we were living in RV.
Kenny Phillips
Like I said, I was in— I was probably 42 at the time. Sabrina would have only been like 30-something, and they were like, oh, you're a very— I'm not putting quotes here— young couple to be living in a Class A motorhome. And they thought that was pretty interesting that we were so young to be living in a motorhome. And it didn't— like, they weren't like, oh, you should become ambassadors right away. What happened is I started writing for them at first, and then over time, uh, writing became into making videos, and then eventually I became an ambassador.
Kenny Phillips
Then I started working shows, uh, for them, and that's a lot of fun. And then doing like product testing. So over the last 10 years We've been— we got 173,000 miles on our Winnebago Vista. It's still the same RV that we bought almost, almost 10 years ago. And we've been through most of the United States, parts of Canada, and parts of Mexico with it.
Kenny Phillips
And it's just been— like I said, I just wish I would have started sooner. It has been such a positive force in our life. Like, it has really I think made us grow into better people. You wouldn't think about that for RVing, but it gets us out of our comfort zone sometimes. Sabrina is much more introverted than I am, but you know, being at campgrounds, there's a lot of extroverted people at campground, so it gets her to kind of spread her wings a little bit and chat a little bit more with people.
Kenny Phillips
I think for me too, like, I've always been the kind of extra extroverted, but being in, you know, this role with Winnebago and then going to campgrounds and stuff like that, it really made me build up my social skills much better than they were being just a stationary life. We have more friends now than we ever did with our stationary lives. We're actually in the process— we're selling our home base and we're moving back into the RV again. We really miss it. So we're going to be full-timing again for— Sabrina says let's give it 6 months to a year, and that's what we said the first time, and it ended up 5 years.
Kenny Phillips
So secretly, that is what I'm hoping for. I'm hoping for another 5-year run in the RV. I just love it.
Peggy
Nice.
Kenny Phillips
Tony, Peggy, I just think the nicest people in the world are out on the road just kind of traveling.
Kenny Phillips
I have some interesting conversations even at a gas station sometimes.
Peggy
Yeah, yeah.
Tony
Well, and it's funny because at— in a sticks and bricks, you may live next door to someone, like you could almost pass a cup of sugar from one window to the next and almost not know who they are. Yeah. But in a motorhome or in an RV you know half the folks in the RV park after the second day.
Kenny Phillips
Yeah, yeah, just super friendly community and very helpful. So I don't know, you guys have probably experienced this as well. When we first started RVing, like I said, 9, 10 years ago, we knew very little. The all we knew was what we saw on YouTube. That's, you know, we went to YouTube University for learning about RVing.
Kenny Phillips
And I remember Um, I was standing outside of the RV one day and I was setting up, and I'm probably slow at it, it's my first or second time, and somebody came over and he's like, you look kind of young and your RV looks pretty new, do you need any help? And I thought to myself, well, that was really nice. Like, nobody has ever came up to me at a hotel and said, hey, I can carry your bags for you, you know, just right. But, you know, first, first week out RVing and people are coming over to see if I need help. I tell people nowadays If you're new to RVing, just stand outside of your RV and just start scratching your head a little bit.
Kenny Phillips
That's the signal for people to start coming over and offering help if you're having a problem.
Peggy
Isn't that—
Tony
I wonder if you would get like a fake toolbox and just have it sit out there and you stand in front of your RV like looking at it, if how many people you'd attract. It's like, you know, it's like having cookies or something, just a toolbox out there.
Kenny Phillips
I think that would 100% work.
Kenny Phillips
I think that's the bait right there, is the toolbox, right?
Peggy
Yeah, that's awesome. So, so as a Winnebago ambassador, you said you get to travel a lot, you get to go to rallies and, and talk about Winnebago, and you also get to test, as you said, new products. And I know a few weeks ago, our episode 360, Tony talked about the Arca And I, I am pretty sure I overheard in his office him talking to you and asking you questions about it because he didn't get to actually see it, but you were actually using it.
Kenny Phillips
Yeah, I was able to take it out for 30 days and it was, uh, it was great.
Kenny Phillips
I, I did not want to give it back, and that's how I usually feel about a lot of the RVs, but this one for me was really special because it's like truly off-road capable. I own a small little Jeep, I go off-roading a lot. I went off-roading for the Fourth of July, so to me, like, the Arca is like best of both worlds. For me, it's the RV that I love and it's off-roading that I love. So it's almost like the Arca for me is like my Vista and my Jeep had a baby, and that's, you know, that's what, what it created.
Kenny Phillips
And, you know, to be able to just go out off-road, be out in the middle of nowhere, but still have power to like as if I was plugged into a campground. So like all the luxuries— I mean, heated floors. Yeah, that won me over. Like I told somebody this at the show, and I might have told you too, Tony, that I thought it was kind of gimmicky to have heated floors in an RV, and now I want heated floors in every RV I go to because it's so quiet and so evenly, you know. Like right now with my forced air, I'll get a cold spot here in the coach or a cold spot somewhere else, whereas the heated floor is all that radiant heat just comes straight up and everything is nice and even and warm.
Peggy
And you don't get the sound.
Kenny Phillips
Yeah, yeah, it's so nice.
Tony
Yeah, something somebody told me when I was visiting another RV company is that even in Florida, they turn the heated floors up just a teeny bit. And then even like having the air conditioner on, you could walk around barefooted.
Kenny Phillips
Yeah.
Tony
And, you know, it feels good.
Kenny Phillips
Yeah, I'm walking around in my socks and it, it's, it's nice to have that warmth coming off the floor just, just in socks even. Yeah, something special about it for sure.
Tony
That Arca had so many real breakthrough features that I, I think I want one too.
Kenny Phillips
I want one.
Kenny Phillips
Sabrina doesn't enjoy off-roading as much as I do, and she's actually afraid if we were to get one, it would encourage us to go off-roading more. She kind of likes the idea that our Vista, you know, we can boondock and dry camp and we just get a little bit off the road, and then I take my Jeep the rest of the way. She doesn't even go with me in the Jeep. She kind of thinks that's the balance right there.
Peggy
It sounds like a fair balance.
Kenny Phillips
It's You know what, Peggy, I'm gonna put fair in quotes here because truly, Sabrina, my compromise is probably a 90/10 split. It's usually what she wants. I get a little bit of say, but I'm— she wouldn't get mad for me saying this, I don't think. I'm more flexible than she is. I'm more easygoing.
Kenny Phillips
I can make things work. Sabrina likes things in a particular way. So happy wife, happy life is definitely the motto around here in this RV.
Tony
I think that's a universal truth.
Kenny Phillips
I think so.
Kenny Phillips
But yeah, doing product testing is definitely one of the, you know, my favorite things. And then of course working the shows is probably even trumps that a little bit because, man, I just love chatting with people and talking about my experience. And Tony and I were just talking before this, you know, we'll go on a Facebook page and try to help somebody. I like helping people too. So being at the shows and trying to help somebody decide what the best RV is for them, I just think that's— there's no better job, to be honest.
Kenny Phillips
And I'm not, I'm not in sales, I'm marketing, so I get nothing out of if they do purchase. There's no motive for me to push somebody in any direction. So I can tell them really to go into any direction. I try to figure out, you know, what they want to get out of the lifestyle. How they want to travel, where they want to go, how many people there will be.
Kenny Phillips
And I just try to match them up, uh, with the best RV, basically. So it's, it's a nice perk for me just to get out and chat with people.
Tony
Yeah, they should— I would like that task as well. That would be fun to go to shows.
Peggy
Yeah, I like that, that concept.
Peggy
I'm in marketing, not sales, because yeah, then you get to do all the fun parts and let someone else handle the hard stuff.
Kenny Phillips
That's exactly right. Yeah, so when I'm talking to somebody, I'm pretty upfront with them in the beginning. I'm like, I'm, I'm with the marketing team, uh, with Winnebago. I'm not an employee.
Kenny Phillips
Sometimes I'll even go through the whole spiel that, you know, I'm just an ambassador, I'm freelance, I'm contracted, I'm just here for information. And I'll go through a tour with them and I'll talk to them about it, and they'll start asking me about pricing. And I said I can answer basic questions about pricing, but if you really want to know the pricing, the, the interest rates, and what can be done for your trade and stuff, I said, I'm gonna pass you over to a salesperson. If you would like that, I'll walk you over and I'll introduce you. If you don't want to talk to a salesperson, I'm perfectly fine with that too, and I'll keep on chatting with you.
Kenny Phillips
But as far as numbers go, I'm really just here for information and specs and the lifestyle portion of it, but I can't help you with the actual sale of it. So, and I like that. I don't necessarily want to be part of the, the sales process of it, right?
Tony
Yeah, that's, that's pretty cool.
Lorne Moore-Crispin - ParkIt 360
That's great.
Tony
Then now, how did you go from that to co-hosting Beyond the Wheel podcast?
Kenny Phillips
Yeah, so I don't know if you're familiar with, um, Heath Pageant, but he— oh yeah, you do know Heath? Okay, he's great.
Tony
Yeah.
Kenny Phillips
And he used to put together, uh, rallies for seminars.
Kenny Phillips
They were called RVE Summits, and it was a little bit of a mixture of a rally seminar. It was really all about learning how to make a business on the road, basically. So the, the spokespeople would be either authors or podcasters, YouTubers, voiceover actors, like all kinds of— all these different professions all living in an RV and traveling in their RV. Uh, and I've— I attended about 3 of them, but I think it was either the first or the second I met Sean Chickery, and Sean is the other co-creator, co-host of Beyond the Wheel podcast. And we hit it off at the show and we chatted, but we didn't talk anything about business.
Kenny Phillips
Sean was retiring from military at the time, and his wife Julie was the one that was kind of pursuing a career as far as like traveling in the RV full-time and, uh, you know, creating workflow in the RV. So we were just kind of chatting, and then we, we kept in touch. And Sean came back to me like a few months later. He emailed me or called me and said, hey, I have this idea for a podcast. I was thinking like a behind-the-scenes look of the RV industry, and I was wondering if you'd be interested in co-hosting it with me.
Kenny Phillips
And this was, I think, 2018. And I said, yeah, that sounds like a lot of fun. What do you need me to do? And he's like, to be honest, I don't really know yet, but let's just sit down and try to think of like what we would want this show to be like and, uh, come up with a couple ideas. And at the time we were like, we don't even know how to get a guest on the show.
Kenny Phillips
So we really kind of bootstrapped everything and just kind of learned as we went. Um, because of the RV Summit, because I had a couple ties that I made through Winnebago, we were able to get a couple guests on fairly quickly. It was actually easy when you— you know, you guys might have the same experience— when you go to a company and say, look, we don't want any money. We're not charging you for advertising, you know, it's pretty much free advertising for you to come on the show and just talk about your product. We're, we're just highlighting your product, you know, it's not a gotcha.
Kenny Phillips
We're not trying to badmouth you guys in any way. We just want to highlight the product. It's content for us, it's, uh, free promotion for you type of thing. So yeah, it was surprising how easy it was to get guests on at the time. And our idea was that we're just kind of looking at the industry side of things.
Kenny Phillips
When we were at the RVE Summit, we noticed a lot of people were talking about the social lifestyle or the trends and things like that. We're like, no, let's take a, let's take a business approach to it and then see what it takes to get a product to a market or a service. Um, so we just kind of highlight the people, products, and services that are making the RV industry a little better. And like I said, it's been since 2018. I'm— I don't even know, is that 8 years?
Kenny Phillips
Almost 8 years now for the podcast.
Peggy
So That's right when we came up with our concept too. That's when we started the website, and then we didn't start the podcast until 2019.
Tony
But, and that's funny because we had wanted to go to the RV Summit and just didn't, you know. It was like something else, something, something.
Tony
I think I may have still had a job, perhaps. I may have still been selling RVs at that point.
Kenny Phillips
Oh, okay. They were great shows, rallies. I really don't know what you call, like to— it's not a show and it's not a rally, but I learned so much from those events, especially the first year alone.
Kenny Phillips
Like, somebody introduced me to Instagram at one of those shows. Like, I didn't even know how to go on Instagram and do anything. Um, very— again, because of that community. I don't know what it is about the RV community, but you would think at an event like that where everybody is trying to learn and kind of self-promote each other and learn how to stand out so many people wanted to help everybody else there to succeed as well. Everybody wanted to succeed and wanted everybody else to succeed as well.
Kenny Phillips
And that's something that I still try— that I still try to do today. If somebody reaches out to me and they got questions, I mean, I have no secret formula, secret sauce, whatever you want to call it, but I'll tell people exactly what I do. Like, it doesn't— I don't feel like it takes anything away from me by helping somebody else.
Tony
No, like they say, the rising tide raises all the boats. The same way, it's— yeah, there's nothing— it's not like we know what we're doing.
Kenny Phillips
Well, it's funny because like, uh, I don't know if you guys— I think maybe you mentioned that maybe it were competition for you. I don't feel, and I don't think you guys feel that way either, but no, I think it's good the more podcasters. Like, I wouldn't mind podcasts like being an exact copy of ours. Like, I think just having more in that space kind of— what would it be? Not verifying or solidifying, but kind of says, oh, there's a reason for this, that, you know, some, you know, that this is proven that it's interesting, right?
Tony
Yeah, proof of concept.
Kenny Phillips
That's what I'm looking for. Yeah, proof of concept. Look at you, Tony, you are a professional.
Tony
No, no, it's written spray painted on the wall behind the computer.
Peggy
So, so from a logistics standpoint, like, I know how Tony and I work together because we're almost always in the same RV or in the same house, or fortunately we have our own offices.
Tony
Yeah, we do.
Peggy
But, you know, we have kind of that division of labor and, you know, we can yell down the hall, hey, I have an idea, come look at this. And with you and Sean, it's maybe a little bit more work because you're not only not in the same house, but not even on this— in the same part of the country.
Kenny Phillips
Yeah, it's very, very rare that Sean and I even see each other in person.
Kenny Phillips
We see each other maybe once a year in person, and either at a rally or, you know, if we just happen to be driving past each other, you know, we'll stop and hit a brewery or something like that. But yeah, for the most part, it is all video chatting It's all phone calls. I'd probably talk to Sean, either text, phone call, or video chat once a day. Um, and we kind of just brainstorm ideas, uh, try to get ideas of who we want to have on the show next. I'll say, like, after 8 years, even though there's always newer stuff coming out and products coming out, I, I do get to a point sometimes that I think, well, I feel like we've, we've talked to everybody.
Kenny Phillips
Who else is left?
Tony
Yeah, right.
Peggy
Yeah.
Tony
Oh, without a doubt.
Peggy
What are we going to say this week?
Kenny Phillips
Yeah, yeah. So sometimes I do feel it, and then every once in a while a product comes along and like, well, I haven't heard of this before. Uh, we're, we're gonna have a company called Angel Guard Cookware coming on the show. We just record it with them. So every once in a while there's a product that comes out, and, uh, their product is, you know, to protect, uh, boiling burns on children, adults, seniors on a, on a cooktop stove.
Kenny Phillips
The the pot actually locks into the stovetop so that they can't grab it and tip it over on top of themselves.
Peggy
Oh, we've talked to them.
Tony
He's a— the guy's a firefighter.
Kenny Phillips
He is a firefighter.
Tony
He was a firefighter.
Kenny Phillips
Uh, he still is. Yeah, he's still— he's still putting in his years. I think he's— I think he told me 20 years he's got in so far. Could that be right? That could be right.
Kenny Phillips
He seemed like a young guy, but I guess— yeah, I think he said 20 years. Um, so he's a firefighter and he came up with this concept He's talked to companies like Lippert and manufacturers, and he's pushing it. I mean, he's been work— he's been going at it just like you guys know too from talking to these companies. He's been at it for 10 years trying to get it to market. It's just sometimes a really uphill battle.
Kenny Phillips
And to be honest, you know, I love the RV industry, but it's sometimes slow to change, slow to adapt, slow to make improvements. I mean, it's slow sometimes.
Tony
Yeah, but So the, the main reason we thought it'd be great to have you and Belle as our guest is you and Belle co-authored a book.
Peggy
Now our listeners, our people who are watching, are saying, I only see one person there, who the heck is Belle?
Kenny Phillips
I have Belle down here.
Kenny Phillips
I can— she's sleeping now.
Peggy
Oh, now she's sleeping.
Kenny Phillips
Now she's sleeping. She sleeps a lot. Belle just turned 12 years old a couple weeks ago.
Kenny Phillips
She's going to be excited too, you know, about getting back into the RV. Uh, Belle and I— I believe Belle and I are on the same page about, um, stationary life in the sense that here at home feels a little bit like Groundhog Day. We know everything that's going to happen from like at 7 AM. We kind of have our whole day planned out. We know what's going to happen compared to Being out on the road, you just never know, good or bad, what's going to happen out on the road, who you're going to meet, what you're going to see on the road.
Kenny Phillips
Um, Belle, Belle, you know, just sits basically throughout the, the day here at the house just looking out the front window, and I swear she's just hoping that somebody says, let's go for a ride or RV. She likes both those words. So yeah, Belle helped me with this book big time. So I, I wrote this book and it wasn't originally designed to be a children's book. So that my first idea of the book was that I was going to write a book, not Belle, and I wanted to kind of share the stories that we have created over these last 10 years on the road as a family— me, Sabrina, and Belle.
Kenny Phillips
And it's funny how bored I was with the idea, like, within not even a full day. Like, you know, I thought of it in the morning, I was like, oh, I should put I've been writing for Winnebago for 9 years. I should put this, all this writing— I'll say skill even though it's not— all this experience and skill that I've been accumulating and put it towards something just for myself and not for somebody else. I write for other companies too, but I was like, let me just make something of my own. And I was like, I guess I could write a story or a book about our own travels over the last 9 years and I don't know.
Kenny Phillips
I was like, I don't know. I don't know.
Lorne Moore-Crispin - ParkIt 360
I—
Kenny Phillips
by the end of the day, I was like, will people really be interested in our stories? How entertaining would it be?
Kenny Phillips
And then I was like, by day 2, I was like, what about— what if the stories were— are still our stories, but they were from Belle's perspective? And I really like that idea because I, I mean, I just adore Belle and love her to death, and I think she is the main character between the three of us anyway, she's our main character. And there's the book there.
Tony
By the way, if you're listening or watching and you're confused, Sabrina is Kenny's wife and is a human. Belle is their dog, and she's a dog and is a dog.
Tony
So just, just to make sure that we have everything completely clear.
Kenny Phillips
Yeah, you know what, Sometimes I forget that.
Tony
Well, I could just see people going, wait a minute, so who's Sabrina then?
Peggy
We— and we sometimes tend to forget that not everybody watches our episodes. We have a lot of people who only listen, and so we try to remember to be clear, you know, of who we're seeing and what we're seeing.
Peggy
And right now listeners can't tell, I'm holding up Belle's first and newest book, Belle's RV Adventures. Desert Discovery, which of course really got to my heart because my heart is in the desert and we love dogs. And so I couldn't, I, you know, since the book came in, I like opened it up and read it immediately.
Kenny Phillips
It's an easy read. It's an easy one.
Kenny Phillips
I myself forget that Belle sometimes is just a dog. And I don't say just a dog to be mean. Or anything like that. But I— she is— I mean, she might have a bigger control and say of our travels and what we do in life than me and Sabrina combined. Like, all decisions revolve around Belle.
Peggy
What would Belle want to do?
Kenny Phillips
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Tony
Things, you know, dogs— like, you know, I know people who have traveled from one coast to the other so their dogs and, well, whatever pet, but mostly dogs, can have their paws in the Atlantic and the Pacific, for example.
Kenny Phillips
Yeah, yeah.
Tony
So that's an inspiration.
Kenny Phillips
We, we honestly, we RV because of Belle. Belle is the reason that we bought an RV. Um, you know, one thing I didn't really mention too much, I guess, like when we went into full-time RV, it was really for Sabrina's work that she's got. She travels across the country. Um, she's a a pulmonary critical care physician.
Kenny Phillips
So she's working at different hospitals all across the country doing something called locum work. And we had a choice of either, you know, getting rid of our apartment and we could just travel by car and stay at several hotels. And we thought, well, that's going to be cumbersome. There's pet fees. Belle's kind of loud sometimes.
Kenny Phillips
I don't know if like living in a hotel from state to state is really ideal. And then, you know, we, we found this idea of RVing. It was something that we weren't really thinking of. We were just kind of scrolling through YouTube and we saw people like We're the Russos and Less Junk More Journey living in RVs. And we were like, they don't seem too crazy.
Kenny Phillips
Like, they don't— they, they seem normal-ish. Other than the fact that they're living in an RV, they seem like normal people. We're like, we Maybe, you know, maybe that's something. Sabrina never even camped before. Um, at least I had some camping background.
Kenny Phillips
I used to camp a lot as a kid in tents and sleeping bags and stuff like that. So we were like, we should be able to do this too. So that's kind of— I mean, honestly, we RV because of Belle. And we were like, all the campgrounds are pet friendly, she'll always be in a familiar location like inside the RV, and if she makes a little bit of noise in the RV, that's not that bad. Um, right.
Kenny Phillips
So that's really how Belle became— you know, that's how Belle started RVing, is, is just because of, uh, like I said, she makes the decisions. We literally bought Belle an RV. It is her RV.
Tony
Well, and one of the good things about a Class A is that they can look out the front windshield. Like, how many times do you go to an RV park, you know, and they have these big beautiful front windshields and there's somebody looking out watching you walk by.
Kenny Phillips
That is Belle's spot. She's quick to jump up there when she— she has it timed now and knows the sound of like the vehicle going in the park. She, she hears that click, click, park, and she jumps right up on the dash. We throw a bed up there for her and she just watches every— just watches everybody like a hawk.
Peggy
That's terrific.
Peggy
Yeah.
Kenny Phillips
In fact, even in the book, I think there's an illustration of her laying up on the dash as the sun's coming down. Like, that's her. That is her spot. Yeah, that is her spot.
Kenny Phillips
And that's really what I wanted to do. I wanted to tell our story through Belle's perspective, but I wanted to keep all of them true stories. So everything in the book is a true story and her true experience. It's just coming from her perspective. And I think once I did that, like, once I said, all right, this is going to be from her perspective, it automatically changed it to a children's book.
Kenny Phillips
It wasn't— so the fact of it being a children's book wasn't the original goal. It's just what happened, you know, based on the changes that we made to the story. I, I had a hard time envisioning marketing this book to adults as as a more serious-toned book. And I'm not a very serious person anyway. So I was like, you know what?
Kenny Phillips
And my writing skills, I wouldn't say I have very high writing skill levels. I was like, I'd probably write perfectly right at a children's level. This will be right up my alley. This will be easy. It was fun developing.
Kenny Phillips
Like, Belle already has a voice, but it was fun developing a voice for Belle in the book. I think in real life, Belle is more sarcastic and probably not as kind as she is in the book. So that might be a little bit of a, you know, maybe not so true. Like, Belle can be tough sometimes, but in the book, she's super kind.
Kenny Phillips
She's tough but kind. They talk to us, you know, whether it may not be this verbal way, but I mean, she's got a way with body language, um, and actions that she takes that she is sending us messages. You know, it just may not be in English. I always say dogs are so much smarter than we are because I can talk to Belle and ask her to do things and she listens. She— I mean, she understands and she listens and she'll do— sometimes, sometimes she'll do what I ask.
Lorne Moore-Crispin - ParkIt 360
Right.
Kenny Phillips
I cannot understand anything she says. So I would say that she is way smarter than I am. I mean, here I am, she's understanding my language, and I have no idea what her barks or groans or noises really mean. I can almost pick up on it, but she knows exactly what I— you know, the actual word, you know.
Kenny Phillips
So I always say that they're smarter than we are.
Peggy
So I would like you to help inspire anyone who's listening and maybe has a dog or a perspective and thinks that maybe their stories would be worth reading. Can you just, you know, just briefly give us a little bit of a couple of pointers?
Kenny Phillips
Sure. Obviously, kind of like start with your idea of what you want that story to be.
Kenny Phillips
Maybe make a little bit of an outline. The whole book doesn't have to be outlined, but, you know, kind of come up with your idea of What the story is, how does the story start, kind of think of how you want it to end, and then you're kind of filling in pieces in between. Um, for, for the children's book, I believe that all good kids books have a scary portion to them, a little bit of fear factor to them. So in this book, we have a scene with the coyote somewhere in the middle of the book, and that's a true story. Belt did scare away a coyote in the pitch black of our— of coming out of our RV in the desert.
Kenny Phillips
And you're really allowing the illustrations to do the heavy lifting of the story as well. When you're writing, just write. Don't worry about your punctuation. Don't worry about, oh, does this really make all that much sense right now, the flow of it and things like that. Or you do what I do and you hire an editor.
Tony
I think that's always good.
Peggy
Yeah, I think that's always a good idea.
Kenny Phillips
There is no perfect. Don't dwell too much on perfection. Something finished and something polished and something great is perfect.
Kenny Phillips
It's going to be perfect for somebody out there. And that's something that's hard to do though, because I know creating this book, I wanted to make changes and then I have an editor and I have an illustrator. My illustrator wanted to make changes and I would have to say, look, I agree with you, but I— this has to get done at some point.
Peggy
We can't just keep—
Kenny Phillips
we can't just keep on making changes.
Kenny Phillips
We'll do it forever. It'll never get done. And the layout by far is the most time-consuming process of the entire book. The layout, you are— so if you're going through Amazon like I did, then you are using Amazon's program. And I thought I did great.
Kenny Phillips
I had it all laid out. I go to upload it. Into Amazon, I apparently didn't do it right because everything was bleeding out, words were getting cut off. So I had to do the whole layout over again. It's easily the most frustrating portion.
Kenny Phillips
But I will say, you know, this is my first book. I used YouTube videos to follow other people who have created books. My editor had written books before. Sean Chickery has written 2 books. So I had a lot of help and input.
Kenny Phillips
I think I get $2.99 per copy and Amazon takes the rest. But without them, how else would I really be selling it? And I mean, they're doing the printing, they're doing the shipping.
Peggy
You'd be paying a printer and a shipper.
Kenny Phillips
Yeah, I feel like it's a fair deal in the sense for the shipping purposes alone, like you just said.
Kenny Phillips
Like, I'm not carrying inventory in our RV while I'm traveling. I'm not taking orders and pulling over and figuring out everybody's address, boxing it up and shipping it. That's a lot. That's a lot.
Tony
First Street or Fourth Street?
Kenny Phillips
Yeah, I know I'd be getting these addresses wrong. Oh yeah, I couldn't match that if I was trying to do that on my own. I couldn't even get a book to them 6 days if it was printed already.
Kenny Phillips
They'd have to wait till I stopped and found a mailbox somewhere or a postal Right.
Tony
Yeah.
Peggy
And then Belle would be tapping her paw like, come on, we're supposed to be on an adventure, not at the post office.
Tony
That's the post office again. I have all these mailmen to bark at.
Kenny Phillips
The illustrations were just as important as the words, so I wanted to make sure that she gets paid pretty much as long as I'm selling these books. Um, and she's already agreed, so it's going to be a 10-book series. She has agreed to do all 10 books for me, so all the illustrations should remain to be the same. The second book is finished right now. It's, um, well, it's written.
Peggy
I saw it on Instagram what it's going to be, and another one I'm very excited about.
Kenny Phillips
So it's our, our— it's Belle's Route 66 book, and it's her experience from traveling from California to Chicago on Route 66 and seeing the, you know, Cadillac Ranch and the big blue whale And we take a couple little detours here and there too.
Peggy
So my book was written— was printed in June. That's right. Okay.
Kenny Phillips
And it even tells you where it was printed.
Peggy
Yes, in Las Vegas.
Tony
Interesting.
Peggy
Yeah, so made in the USA, Las Vegas, Nevada, 22 June 2026.
Tony
Interesting.
Kenny Phillips
So those people that are buying the book in Canada, their books are printed in Canada depending on where you were when you ordered that book, it will get printed in different locations across the United States. People have written to me and they've had their books printed either in Canada. I've had people print their books from Mexico, um, Las Vegas, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Florida, uh, New Mexico, New Mexico, California. Like, there are printing— like, Amazon is printing these books, they're massive. They're just That's what I say.
Kenny Phillips
Like, all right, yeah, I only get the $2.99 and then I give my illustrator more of that, but they are doing— I just, I wouldn't be able to keep up with this.
Peggy
So everybody go on Amazon. When you're on Amazon next time, order Belle's RV Adventures: Desert Discovery, written by Kenny Phillips, and they will print it and ship it to you immediately. And if you still can't wait because that 1 or 2 or 3 days is is too long to hear more about Belle, Belle has her own Instagram page as well. Tell us about that.
Kenny Phillips
Yeah, so that's Belle's RV Adventures as well on Instagram, and she's on there at least once a week. For a little while she was doing one a day, but like I said, she's 12 years old, she's getting kind of sleepy and lazy. So recently she's only been posting about once a week, and it's usually just a photo of her and what she's kind of up to, and she shares her thoughts. She's very opinionated, so she'll share her— a couple of her thoughts. Um, she had a birthday party, so I know her birthday party was, uh, posted up there on, on Instagram.
Kenny Phillips
And most of the time, I think Bella's just taking jabs at Sabrina and I, that we're not doing— of how strange we are or what we're doing that doesn't make any sense to her and things, things like that. Um, You know, she—
Peggy
but she'll have a little more material then when you, when you go back to full time. Yeah, once you'll have an RV adventure every day.
Kenny Phillips
Yeah, yeah, she, she'll get out of her, her little Groundhog Day funk and she'll be able to post more of what's going on.
Kenny Phillips
There's only so many sofa photos I think that she wants to share, right?
Tony
Well, Kenny, it's always a pleasure to spend time with you, whether it's in IRL, as they say, or here in the, the ethernet, as it were, or the ether. And we really appreciate your taking the time to talk with us.
Peggy
And yes, thank you so much. Thank you.
Kenny Phillips
Yeah, thanks for having me on. This, this was a lot of fun for me, and I enjoyed our conversation very, very much. So I appreciate your time.
Tony
Sounds good. Well, we'll see you out there, and, uh Look forward to Belle's next adventure.
Peggy
Oh, and Belle, woof woof!
Tony
Right.
Tony
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Kenny Phillips
It's like when it's finally time to rest, I can't be still.
Peggy
I have to get up and move around, checking the locks, pacing the rig, waiting for someone to come tell me we can't park here.
Tony
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Kenny Phillips
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Tony
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Kenny Phillips
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Peggy
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Tony
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Tony
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Peggy
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Tony
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Peggy
I'm so excited for Belle's Route 66 adventure. The book is really an easy read.
Peggy
It's a kids' book, but I enjoyed it myself. I can't wait to pass it on to one of the kids in our family. And we also got to speak to someone else this week, so you're lucky that you don't have to only hear from us.
Tony
Ain't that the truth.
Peggy
This is a gadget that we wish we had, uh, but we think that it's very great gadget, and we wanted to let all our listeners know about it even if we don't have firsthand work with it.
Tony
A great gadget for moving travel trailers, fifth wheels, and other trailers found us, and we thought this might be a great solution for a lot of people listening. And that is the Parkit 360. And we have been joined by Lorne Moore-Crispin, the CEO of the company, to share a little bit more about what they do.
Peggy
I'm very excited about this thing, this whole product, this whole concept. I've always— we lived in a place before where we had to make a really tight turn, and I think it would have come in handy.
Peggy
I'm not sure I could have ever done that parking. Tony did it. But now, unfortunately, we live where we're all in sand and gravel, so we still don't really have the ability to try these out, and I'm so sad about that. But we wanted to at least share this so that other people can know more about it.
Lorne Moore-Crispin - ParkIt 360
Awesome.
Lorne Moore-Crispin - ParkIt 360
Well, thank you guys very much for having me on. I, I actually really enjoy your guys' podcast. After we reached out to you, I've checked out a couple of your guys' episodes, uh, and think you guys do a great job. So, uh, thanks for having me on.
Tony
Tell us a little bit, what in the wide, wide world of sports is Parkit360?
Lorne Moore-Crispin - ParkIt 360
Yeah, no problem. So Parkit360 is an electric trailer dolly, um, so it's designed for parking boats, uh, campers, basically anything that has a hitch, uh, in tight places. And that product, we actually— that product was invented by a gentleman named Steve tool back in 2009. Uh, he actually owned another company at that time that parked boats and with external bow thrusters. And, uh, during his time at that company, he noticed a hole in the market for campers and the need for people putting trailers in tight places, as well as, uh, just offering a service in which people with trailers are able to park their trailer at home or wherever they take it traveling.
Lorne Moore-Crispin - ParkIt 360
So ultimately he moved from the other company that he owned and founded this back in 2009. And we're still going strong as of today.
Tony
And you have both electric trailer dollies and manual ones too, correct?
Lorne Moore-Crispin - ParkIt 360
Correct. Our bread and butter is electric trailer dollies.
Lorne Moore-Crispin - ParkIt 360
That's what we started off doing. Since coming out with our original dollies, we've branched out to— we have a couple of manual trailer dollies and then we have fully remote controlled trailer dollies as well.
Tony
Yeah, yeah. In fact, I saw one of your fully electric trailer dollies being used at the end of the assembly line at an RV factory. So there they were, you know, the trailer would hit the end of the assembly line, they'd hook it right to the, uh, the Parkit 360, and there's a lady out there, an Amish lady no less, pulling the trailers out from the line.
Lorne Moore-Crispin - ParkIt 360
That's actually a fairly newish development. That's been one of our big mandates over the last couple years is to move a little bit from the recreational scene and more into the manufacturing assembly line scene just because of demand. So we've been trying to diversify, and that is one of our customers that we serve is, uh, uh, trailer manufacturing assembly plants.
Peggy
Nice.
Tony
To describe what you're building, essentially you unhook your trailer, and it could be a fifth wheel or a travel trailer or a boat or a cargo trailer, right?
Tony
Any— anything with a trailer hitch. You unhook it from whatever you're towing it with, then you hook it to the Parkit 360, and other than the manual one, you just can move the trailer into position. Like if you have, as Peggy said, we used to have a driveway that would go down and have a right turn in it. That would have made that so much easier for sure.
Peggy
The front of the truck wouldn't have knocked over my trellis every time.
Tony
Yeah, yep.
Lorne Moore-Crispin - ParkIt 360
Yeah, that's exactly what the product is designed for. It's for moving your camping trailer. It's actually really designed even outside of every, any trailer that has a hitch because our product is unique where every trailer mostly has a hitch that uses a ball coupler. But our product is unique where you can actually remove the ball coupler out.
Lorne Moore-Crispin - ParkIt 360
And you would have— you'll have an empty cylinder tube, which then allows you to basically insert anything into that cylinder tube. So it doesn't have to be just a hitch. So we have lots of people with pintle hitches, you can hook up via your jack post, say you don't have a plate, on it. You're able to use the jack post, which just adds a, a really big diversity of trailers or anything that's not a trailer. As long as you have a cylinder post that goes vertically, you can hook up to this unit.
Peggy
Oh, okay.
Tony
And what surfaces is it compatible with, and how steep of an angle—
Peggy
yeah—
Lorne Moore-Crispin - ParkIt 360
are you able to All of our products work on hard compact grass, gravel, dirt, hard— if in like sand areas, if it's like road sand, um, then it works. It— our product struggles in like beach sand just because it's so soft, but our product works in all that.
Lorne Moore-Crispin - ParkIt 360
If you need something that is super heavy duty, ultimate traction when working in those tougher conditions, whether there might be a little bit muddy, it might be a little bit looser gravel level, then our Carrier 13K, which is 6-wheel drive, um, is the ultimate. So that is, for example, in your scenario where you may— that you have a sandier, uh, location, then that product would be the way you'd want to go because it really digs and bites into the ground in order to get traction.
Tony
Okay, it's pretty cool. It's like a robot.
Lorne Moore-Crispin - ParkIt 360
It is, it really is like a robot, particularly the remote control ones.
Tony
Yeah, yeah, I saw that.
Peggy
I'm like, ooh.
Tony
And where are they manufactured?
Lorne Moore-Crispin - ParkIt 360
Yeah, so we're actually really, really proud of this, but we're a Canadian company. We're based out of Ontario, Canada.
Lorne Moore-Crispin - ParkIt 360
And what's unique about Parkit360 and all the trailer dollies that we manufacture is that they're Canadian made. So they're all built just in Canada. We export into the United States, but they're all built locally here, all hand-built. They're being hand-built as I speak right now. Right now, uh, in the factory below.
Lorne Moore-Crispin - ParkIt 360
And we ship, we ship 3 times, 2 times a week. And then we have multiple distribution centers throughout the United States, whether it's in Utah, New York, Tennessee. And then we partner with other companies such as like eTrailer, Amazon, Factory Pure. So we really pride ourselves with being a Canadian-built quality product.
Peggy
You said Amazon.
Peggy
I know, of course, obviously I know how to shop on Amazon, but if I wanted to actually see it kind of in action, you have places where you can— where people can actually kind of test drive a little bit to get a feel for what it— how it works?
Lorne Moore-Crispin - ParkIt 360
We try to be as available as physically possible. So our, our only real store that we have is in our manufacturing facility is located in Ontario, Canada. But we really do try to put effort into going to at least 3 trade shows throughout the year to be able to allow people to have tangible hands-on experience with the unit. An example of that is my guys are actually packing up right now to head out to the International Airstream Rally.
Lorne Moore-Crispin - ParkIt 360
Oh, I'm not sure exactly. I think it's in— it's not in— it was Wyoming last year. But we go to— we try to go to 3 different trade shows every year to be able to allow customers to get their hands on it.
Tony
And what trailer weights do you accommodate? I know it's a pretty wide variety.
Lorne Moore-Crispin - ParkIt 360
Yeah, we really try to, uh, hit every weight class as physically possible. Um, our products range from 5,000 pounds being the smallest outside of our manual one. Like, our manual one can do like 3,000 pounds, but you wouldn't want to push that any further. So really, we go from 3,000 pounds all the way up to 15,000 pounds. And the 15,000 pounds is really catered to our Transformer 15K, which can hand— which has the ability to do fifth wheels, goosenecks, as well as tow-behinds.
Lorne Moore-Crispin - ParkIt 360
But really, our bread and butter is the 5K, the 10K, and the Carrier.
Tony
It really, for a lot of people, I could see this being a great way to, you know, you're thinking, oh, I want to put my trailer on my property, but I just can't do that with Yeah, I can't get it around the angles and— Yeah, or whatever. It's a great idea. But also, if you're a, like, an RV repair place, you'd be— I would think you'd be crazy not having one of these.
Peggy
Yeah, move things out of the way.
Tony
Yeah, move them around.
Lorne Moore-Crispin - ParkIt 360
Actually, it's really fun. My sales guys have a lot of fun with it, hearing the stories of being able to help all these customers combat these tough situations. Like, we have countless situations where it'd be like, we get a, we get a call from a guy who just bought a brand new, say, 35-foot camper and just went to back it up into his property and just ripped the eavestrough in because it was tight right beside. So our product allows them to park it with ease without having that stress of damaging— like, trailers nowadays are insanely expensive, and you want to protect your investment.
Lorne Moore-Crispin - ParkIt 360
So what better way to protect your investment is to be able to park it with confidence and park it safely.
Tony
Yeah, and, and just, you know, I, I wonder how many people who buy a Parkit 360 wouldn't be able to park on their property without it, right? So they'd be at a storage facility, and it just makes more sense to have this and park it on your property where you can load and unload and all that.
Lorne Moore-Crispin - ParkIt 360
For sure. Like, if you look at geographic areas like LA, um, in the California region, off-site storage costs an insane amount of money just because the population density, this unit pays for itself, uh, after a couple years of saving storage.
Lorne Moore-Crispin - ParkIt 360
Plus you have the extra security of having it on your property.
Peggy
Yeah, yeah.
Tony
The number one place RVs get broken into is in RV storage. Secure storage, for sure.
Lorne Moore-Crispin - ParkIt 360
And it's just the added level of convenience being able to— if you, if you're planning on going for a last-minute trip, you don't need to drive down the street, book a time to get your trailer out of storage, you just have it accessible.
Lorne Moore-Crispin - ParkIt 360
You want to wash it, you want to pack it. Um, yeah, a lot of people, particularly who live in HOAs, don't have the ability to even park their trailer on the road if they want to pack it. They get in trouble right away. So having this, being able to tuck in behind your, behind your house, it's a, it's a really a worthwhile investment.
Peggy
Yeah.
Peggy
And I, and I know, you know, we teach a lot of new RVers And aside from opening the propane bottle, backing up is like the number one people— or thing that people always want help with. And it's sometimes it's just hard to build that confidence. And then this like takes that whole thing away. You don't have to worry about knowing how to back your car properly. You just take it off the car and do it with the Parkit.
Peggy
It's so easy.
Lorne Moore-Crispin - ParkIt 360
For sure. Yeah, it's like you think about, you think about how much time we invest in going camping and how much effort we put into going to get to that perfect spot. And it's, it's a terrible idea in the sense of you go, you do this great vacation, and then you get back home and you end up undoing all your nice relaxing because now you're stressed getting back home on how you're going to put your trailer in your driveway and What's, what's the point of vacationing then if you're just going to be stressed coming back?
Peggy
Right.
Lorne Moore-Crispin - ParkIt 360
So this alleviates that stress and empowers people to be able to put their trailers in places where you wouldn't be able to do it. It's not just for free of stress parking, but it's also—
Kenny Phillips
there's—
Lorne Moore-Crispin - ParkIt 360
you buy a house, you can park your trailer there for the first 5 years of owning that trailer. But then say your neighbor plants trees or Hydro puts a new electric box on the front of your property, things out of your control.
Lorne Moore-Crispin - ParkIt 360
Now it's either impossible to get there because you don't have the swing that's required with the length of the trailer and the truck, or it's either impossible, or it's really, really tight and stressful, and then there's damage to your house, damage to your expensive trailers. And the cost of moving is really expensive too. So is it cheaper to buy a product in which that helps you to park with confidence, or is it cheaper to be like, well, my trailer could fit here before, now I have to either buy something that allows me to park with confidence or park at all, or I need to move in order to find a place that can facilitate my toys?
Tony
Yeah, I could also see— I have a lot of friends who have classic cars and travel trailers, and you might tandem park them, and then you could get the travel trailer out and get the classic car trailer or what, or boat, or, you know, if you have multiple trailers, it helps jogging those around too.
Lorne Moore-Crispin - ParkIt 360
So one really cool thing about our product too is, and what we intentionally designed it by, is the idea of being able to take, particularly the 5K and the 10K, because they're designed to be able to fit in the side compartments of your trailer.
Lorne Moore-Crispin - ParkIt 360
So the idea of they don't need to be just stay-at-home products, uh, we have a lot of customers who will take it on the road with them and be able to get that perfect waterfront setting where you couldn't necessarily get it if you had your truck towed up. Or say you're camping with your buddies and you want to go awning, awning, but you couldn't actually tow one rig in and then back another rig in. Yeah, so it gives you, it gives you a lot of diversity and a lot of options for parking your trailer in those perfect spots when actually out on the road.
Peggy
That's a really good point. So speaking of that, I know they're kind of all different, but could I lift it up and put it in my trailer?
Peggy
I'm not gonna tell you how strong or weak I am, and then—
Kenny Phillips
Yeah.
Lorne Moore-Crispin - ParkIt 360
So the product with the battery weighs about 110 pounds, and then without the battery, it probably weighs somewhere in the ballpark of about 85 pounds. So depending on, depending on your strength, you have, you're able to lift it up. But we have a lot of customers who just get by ramps and either roll it right up into the back of their truck or have two people, able parties, if you're not able to lift it up by yourself, and then you stick it right into the side compartment.
Peggy
Yeah, that'd be— yeah, you just remote control it right up the ramp into the truck.
Tony
Yeah, you just get a, like, a motorcycle ramp and— yeah, and you're exactly—
Lorne Moore-Crispin - ParkIt 360
it's designed to be able to sit below the tunnel cover as well for most of them.
Peggy
Okay, I hadn't even really thought about that.
Tony
You guys have really thought this through.
Lorne Moore-Crispin - ParkIt 360
We've really tried to cover all bases.
Tony
You can buy them on eTrailer directly from you.
Tony
Anything else we need to share with folks?
Lorne Moore-Crispin - ParkIt 360
I think one of the awesome things about Parkit360 in particular is the people in which that make the product. We're, we're a company of 25 people, 24 employees, and you can buy a lot of trailer dollies out there, but one of the unique things about this product is the build integrity in which we build it. The people that build it really, really care. It's built here in North America, and the quality and the service that we provide, I would rival it against anything out there.
Lorne Moore-Crispin - ParkIt 360
Just in a matter of like, my guys who answer the phone, walk through people who want to have questions about how to hook it up and applications, spend an exorbitant amount of time really pouring into those people and serving them as best as physically possible. And I think that's one of the things that makes us unique Um, it's just how much we love on to our customers and want to see them succeed, and then in turn improves their quality of life in the trailing world.
Peggy
That's awesome.
Tony
A good kind of business to be.
Peggy
Yeah, for sure.
Lorne Moore-Crispin - ParkIt 360
For sure.
Tony
Well, Lauren, we really appreciate your working with us to share Parkit360 with our audience. Hopefully people will share their stories of their own park 360s with us.
Lorne Moore-Crispin - ParkIt 360
Absolutely. Thank you very much, guys.
Tony
Oh, my pleasure. Thank you. Well, that's what we have for you this week. As always, we ask a question of the week. Uh, last week it was, what souvenirs do you collect?
Peggy
I really appreciate your answers. Hopefully you don't give me too many new ideas of things to buy when we're out. We, uh, Tony buys a a lot of t-shirts. Not lately, but not lately because he has literally 3 storage totes of t-shirts in the garage because they don't fit in his dresser full of t-shirts.
Tony
Yeah, I, I've had to stop buying t-shirts just because— and then, you know, I, I'm always sad when they get old and worn out.
Peggy
You don't want to wear them and mess them up, right? So, so when we went on our Route 66 trip earlier this year, Tony bought a lanyard and he bought a pin everywhere.
Tony
Should have to show you.
Peggy
I made a video of it. I'll add it here.
Peggy
And I, uh, buy— we get a lot of stickers because we have our sticker board and our adventure board in the camper. And oh, you have one right there. I have one that I haven't stuck yet. And then we put a lot of our Route 66 stickers. I think you can see the map behind us, our Route 66 map.
Peggy
Um, anyway, and then I smash pennies, so my souvenirs I know are basically probably 51 cents apiece.
Tony
No, there was one that was like a dollar.
Peggy
There are machines that cost a dollar, or you can smash a dime or something like that. But for the most part, yeah, a 50-cent machine to smash a penny. And I save up my shiny pennies and my quarters.
Peggy
That's my souvenir. And then my sister actually bought me a new souvenir, a new penny book. Yeah, because she smashed me a penny at bridge thing that goes over the highway in Nebraska. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I have a new book to start.
Tony
Yep. So next week's question is—
Peggy
this week's question— this week's question is we would love for you to share a camping memory with a favorite pet. I'd love to see pictures, videos, whatever. But what story would your pet tell about RVing?
Peggy
Or camping.
Tony
Yeah, you can answer that at our Fun and Friendly Stressless Campers Facebook group, or you can also add your own stories or ask your own question.
Peggy
This morning we had someone who asked for some advice about what RV to buy. Yeah, for their situation. That's what it's for.
Peggy
It's a community for all of you. It's not just so you can tell me what souvenirs you buy. It's so you You have an outlet also for telling great stories, showing your camping photos.
Tony
Yeah, there's some people there who really know what they're talking about.
Kenny Phillips
Sure.
Tony
So, and it's, it has remained really kind because if it's not, we'll just, you know, those people don't need to stay amongst us. That's right. So anyway, we really appreciate you. Don't forget to like, share, and subscribe, all the typical YouTube or whatever, wherever you're enjoying this. Enjoying this or not enjoying it.
Peggy
I don't know if you're enjoying it.
Tony
Hopefully you're enjoying it. And don't forget to like, share, and subscribe. Leave a review. And thank you for being with us on episode 367 of the Stressless Camping RV Podcast.
Peggy
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Mark Farrell
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Kenny Phillips
Until then, happy camping!
Peggy
Hey, by the way, we'll see you next season with which will also be next week.
Tony
Yeah, you're right.
