Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Son Rents RVs to Take Parents on a Road Trip
What would you do if your parents — two characters in their 80s — were miserable after they made an impulsive move from San Diego to Phoenix?
This was the question facing Mike Leonard, whose quirky slice-of-life features air on NBC's Today. What to do?
Then he got an idea: Rent a recreational vehicle and take the folks on one final lap around the country. He'd enlist his twenty- and thirtysomething children, Kerry, Brendan and Matt, and Matt's wife, Margarita, to come along.
"Actually, I think I'll get two RVs," Leonard said.
The ensuing trip became the subject of a four-part series that aired last July, was an instant Today classic and spawned a book and a movie deal.
Full Story...
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Start planning the ultimate RV trip with the Great Western and Eastern RV Trips
This was the question facing Mike Leonard, whose quirky slice-of-life features air on NBC's Today. What to do?
Then he got an idea: Rent a recreational vehicle and take the folks on one final lap around the country. He'd enlist his twenty- and thirtysomething children, Kerry, Brendan and Matt, and Matt's wife, Margarita, to come along.
"Actually, I think I'll get two RVs," Leonard said.
The ensuing trip became the subject of a four-part series that aired last July, was an instant Today classic and spawned a book and a movie deal.
Full Story...
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Start planning the ultimate RV trip with the Great Western and Eastern RV Trips
# posted by Steven Fletcher : 12:52 PM
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