Exploring With Intuition

Van Camping and Sailing in North America

Month: June 2022

  • Chicago Traffic & Illinois Trains

    30 June 2022 Look who’s on the road ahead of us. Anyone with children or grandchildren will probably know this engine, even with a mask on. Today we’re running from Indiana Dunes National Park to Madison, Wisconsin with a stop at the Illinois Railway Museum (IRM). Google, Waze, Garmin, and Apple maps all recommended driving…

  • 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…

  • West Virginia Coal Stop

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    24 June 2022 Off we go on another summer adventure. This time it will be a return to Lake Superior to finish the circle route we started a couple of years ago. Heading north from NC, we often drive through the Virginia mountains and notice this shot tower from route 77. Only a short detour…

  • Pleasure-Way Owner’s Groups

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      East and West Clubs at the Pleasure-Way Connect Rally in 2018 2022-6-20 Meeting a few new owners recently, we wanted to give them places to learn more about their rigs. So… here’s a list of groups we know about. Nothing beats getting together with other owners. Join a group and attend a rally. If…

  • Re-fanning the Fantastic Vent

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      Our Fan–tastic Vent fan wasn’t working at maximum speed. It would run for 5-10 minutes, then stop. We rely on the cooling breeze this fan brings while camping, so decided to order a replacement motor and see if we could get it working ourselves. This is the standard fan installed in a 2018 Pleasure-Way…