Exploring With Intuition

Van Camping and Sailing in North America

Category: Camping

  • Chippewa Waterfront Campsite

      20 July 2022 Today we left Madison Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota after three weeks bouncing around campgrounds in the Madison area. Lake Mendota County Park has a convenient dump station on a paved loop next to their restrooms and bath house. With our water full and waste tanks empty, we headed north towards Lake Superior.…

  • West of Madison

    08 July 2022 Our son’s car is in the shop and we aren’t optimistic that it will be coming out soon. A diagnosis is promised within a week, so we are going to explore nearby in case we need to return to the Madison, Wisconsin area to help him shop for a replacement vehicle. Having…

  • Liberty, Winchester and Truma

    Leaving the campground at Brookville Lake, we headed north on Route 27 through another pretty midwestern town; Liberty, Indiana.  This stately courthouse has been standing here since 1891. As long time readers realize, we enjoy stopping to see town squares and county courthouses and Liberty is the county seat for Union County.  The town has…

  • Brookville – Biking or Ice Cream?

      25 June, 2022 …begins a few relaxing days as we travel from West Virginia to Indiana with a stop in Cincinnatti to visit a long-time friend. About two hours after leaving Beckley’s Exhibition Coal Mine Campground, we were ready to stretch our legs. Beth found this boat launch in Nitro, West Virginia.  Boat launches…

  • Ore and Murals in Ashland

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    25 July 2022 We move east from Thompson’s Bay to Ashland. At 0700 the temp was only 56°, the coldest overnight, thus far, in July. By 0938 we were packed up and on the road. Half an hour later we had found a spot in Ashland. 1008  47,730  69° Kreher Park, site 15, Ashland, WI…

  • Apostle Islands

    Today we head to Bayfield to get out on a boat and explore a little of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. 24 July 2022 1000  47,682  67° Left Thompson’s Bay in Washburn Posted 02 March 2023 1008 Stopped on the way and checked out all thirteen sites at Big Rock Campground. Finding open campsites in the…