Exploring With Intuition

Van Camping and Sailing in North America

Category: Projects

  • Mother’s Day Projects

    We did see Noah yesterday on Mother’s day. He took the time at school to engrave a card on acrylic using a laser in the new fabrication  lab.  It shouldn’t surprise us that he would find a unique method of making a card.  On the RV front, we found a telescoping soft brush that makes…

  • Valve Stems

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    Sprinter 3500 vans have dual rear wheels for weight handling and Pleasure-way installs good looking hubcaps to improve their appearance. This combination makes it almost impossible to reach the valve stems.  Polling members of the Pleasure-way Yahoo group, we found a solution named DuallyValve. You can see the valves before they were installed below: The…

  • Robinson Fuso

    Did a double-take and turned around after passing this unique RV parked in a local independent Land-Rover service lot.  Turns out Robinson-Fuso has had many interesting adventures and the owners, Jon & Emily Turner, publish a great blog.  Check it out at: http://robinsonfuso.com

  • First Check-up. What’s Underneath?

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    All vehicles need maintenance, so we scheduled our first visit to a Mercedes-Benz service department. Even though we only had 4,868 miles, we thought it would be best to have everything gone over in the 2013 van. Took it to Leith Mercedes in Raleigh guessing that they have more experience than the new dealership closer…

  • Santee and Winter

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    We stopped in Santee, SC last night, arriving just as the sun went down.  There were plenty of spots and we found one with a lake view. We woke up to white caps on the lake and spanish moss blowing sideways in the trees.  View out our Window Neighbors without an Agenda The trip home…