Author: Mark Haskell

  • Charging System Upgrade

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    Upgraded from a battery separator to a DC to DC charger on our Pleasure-Way Lexor RV.

  • Mariposas

      22 May 2025 Revisited a local favorite this week; the butterfly house at the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science in Durham, NC. Scroll down for photos of butterflies and a few other creatures at the museum. note: Mariposa is the Spanish word for butterfly. Beth and I always enjoy seeing the flowers and butterflies…

  • Yadkin Valley Meet-up

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    08 May 2025 Our first camping trip of 2025 was a fun two night stay in Jonesville, NC. We camped at Riverwalk RV Park, in order to meet-up with Beth’s sister and brother-in-law.  It’s a private, full hook-up park with pull-through sites that are great for big rigs. A bluebird perched on the park road…

  • Birding at Home

    Backyard birds provide great entertainment when we aren’t traveling.  Here are a few of our favorites from early 2025. New birds added on 26 April 2025 Dark-eyed Junco A late season snow event, unusual in central North Carolina, made our feeders very popular. A Male Northern Cardinal and a bevy of Eastern Bluebirds gathered just…

  • Big Radio Upgrade

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    We spent two days deep in the dashboard of our 2018 Lexor* replacing the stock 5″ OEM head unit with a Kenwood DMX1057XR featuring a 10.1″ display. *The Pleasure-Way Lexor TS is based on a Ram ProMaster 3500 Van. The Original Radio The New Radio Kenwood DMX1057XR Why Upgrade? 1) Much larger touchscreen. 2) Support…

  • SE Florida Trainspotting

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      November 2024 Passenger and freight train photos from our ten days at Jonathan Dickinson State Park in Hobe Sound, Florida. If you camp at Jonathan Dickinson State Park’s Pine Grove campground, it is only a short walk to the Florida East Coast Railway double track mainline. Signals at the one grade crossing in the…