RV Lifestyle Remembers Dolly Parton as Fellow RVer – RVBusiness

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is an excerpt of an article by Mike Wendland, creator of the RV Lifestyle website, podcast and YouTube channel, during which he discusses “Dolly Parton Was One of Us: The RV Interview I Almost Got.”

Here is one thing a lot of the tributes is not going to inform you. Dolly Parton and her husband Carl Dean have been RVers. Not tour bus individuals, although she logged extra miles on a kind of than most of us will ever drive. I imply precise RVers, the sort who load up a small van and disappear into the hills for a few days.

I came upon about it accidentally. This was again round 2014 or 2015, and I used to be writing a weblog referred to as Roadtreking.com, which years later grew into what you’re studying now, RV Lifestyle. Roadtreks have been my factor. Small Class B vans, constructed on a van chassis, no towed automobile, no leveling jacks, nothing to arrange. Word reached me from anyone within the trade that Dolly owned two of them.

I did what reporters do. I despatched a notice to her publicist asking for an interview, and I absolutely anticipated to listen to nothing again. You intention excessive, you get ignored, you progress on to the subsequent story. That is the job.

A few days later the reply got here again, and it was sure. Not a well mannered brush-off sure, both. Dolly could be delighted to speak about her RVing. And right here is the half that also will get me: I used to be informed she already learn my weblog. She cherished Class B vans. She owned two, one she saved out in Hollywood for the stretches when she was engaged on music and movie tasks, and one at her residence in Tennessee.

So we began setting issues up. The plan was to fulfill her in Nashville. We nailed down a date and I booked the flight. I informed Jennifer. I informed a few associates. I’m not certain I’ve ever been extra enthusiastic about an interview, and I’ve interviewed presidents.

Then I bought the flu. Not a sniffle, the actual factor, flat on my again for days.

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