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Nearly one year ago, we received an email in our inbox with the subject line “Travel Channel Casting”. We were on the edge of our seats reading through the email. As you can imagine, we were curious, surprised, excited, nervous all at the same time. Big Time RV is a popular Travel Channel show that is well known in the RVing community. The premise of each episode is to follow shoppers around Lazydays RV as they look for their next RV. The timing couldn’t have been more perfect as we were looking for a smaller RV.
Big Time RV Experience
Before we knew it, we were at Lazydays RV in Florida filming our shopping experience. We were told the episode would air in season 3 which premiered September 2016. After all the episodes aired and we weren’t in any of them, we figured our episode ended up on the cutting room floor. A few weeks ago we received an email from the production company to let us know our episode ended up in Season 4 of Big Time RV. Since we don’t have satellite TV, we will be watching the episode at Joe’s mom’s house. We’re a little nervous and very excited to see how the episode turned out. For those of you who have Travel Channel, you can tune in with us on Sunday, March 5, 2017 at 9pm to watch Big Time RV Season 4 “Europe or Bust”.
The experience of being on a reality show was fun, interesting, and challenging at times. We enjoyed the crew, who took great care of us, especially Leo. It was interesting to see how shows like these are put together. We even picked up a few tricks that we try to incorporate into our own videos. It makes us appreciate the amount of work that goes into producing a TV show and the equipment that goes along with it. We hope it turns out to be a fun and entertaining episode.
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Dear kait and joe.
My wife ( wife is Chinese) and I (American) currently live between China (shanghai) and California ( Long Beach) and are very interested in RVing in a class b van. Very inspired by your videos and we would like to translate this experience for our Chinese friends and colleagues. You are a true inspiration.
We were very interested in airstreams but the thought of towing a trailer just frightens both of us. After watching your videos the van is much more manageable.
We will be in the USA over CNY this year and will start looking at RV. We are very interested in the Travato GL because of the new energy management system. Do you have any suggestions?
Once again thank you for the inspiration. Hope we can meet someday.
Greg Yager and wen wu
Saw you on Travel Channel and was very curious that you might be going to Europe!! I am glad to hear you will travel in the U.S. for another year or so! We have dreams to do the full time RV thing in about 3-4 years, and enjoy your YouTube videos. Hope to see your updates soon!
We definitely want to travel around Europe in a few years, but there is still so much left to explore in the US. Glad to hear you enjoy the videos. Hope to see you roaming around in your RV in a few years.
Happened to catch the show last night. Very entertaining! Very glad to read you haven’t chosen either of those rigs. With the tiny bathroom in one and the super-tiny bed in the other, I couldn’t see how a couple could comfortably full-time in either one. But, to be sure, some compromises will have to be made when purchasing/living fulltime in a B.
What’s up with all the Europe talk? Did I miss something?
I think we may have mentioned this in passing in one of our videos, but our hopeful plan is to spend at least another year touring the US and then start looking at heading to Europe to continue our adventure. We knew a Class A would be way too big there so we figured we’d travel around here in a B first and have some experience before heading overseas.
Enjoyed seeing you on the show. Looks like you had fun and made a good choice. Hope Joe enjoys the shower!!
Hey Ed! How are you doing? Glad you were able to catch the show.
Just got a voicmail late Saturday our Coach is at the dealer in FT Lauderdale. FINALLY! It’s a few days ahead of schedule so scrambling to finalize everything. Need quite a few things from Amazon so will use your link this week. Is Leo going to Europe with you?
That’s terrific news! Do you have an idea of where you might travel to this year? We’re trying to stay West of the Mississippi. Europe is a few years down the road and we do plan to bring Leo along.
We will most likely be on the east side of the Mississipi for this year but may venture out a little further west later in the year. Later this month and into April we will probably be at Thousand Trails in Orlando which is close to my Father In Law in Ocala so we can spend some time with him. After that we will probably venture up the coast visiting family in Atlanta, Maryland and Pennsylvania with stops along the way at State and National parks. That’s about as far as we have planned out so far.
Let us know what you think of TT Orlando. We enjoyed our stay there last year. Happy Trails!