Exploring With Intuition

Van Camping and Sailing in North America

Author: Mark Haskell

  • Lagun Table Mount – Again

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    One of the best upgrades we made to the old camping van was installing a swiveling table mount, so the first modification to our new Lexor was to add the Lagun table mount. While Pleasure-Way listens to customers and is adding this to the 2019 van features, our 2018 model just missed the changeover. We…

  • Saleing

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     Circumstances change and the time had come for a good friend to sell his sailboat, a beautiful Landfall 38. Always up for an opportunity to mess about on boats, we accompanied Jim to the shores of the Neuse River to prep his boat for sale. Beth drove our new van, while Jim and I brought…

  • New Beginning

    Friday was an exciting day for us as we picked up our new 2018 Pleasure-Way Lexor TS camper van. Two feet shorter than our old Plateau TS, it is easier to park, but has less storage space.  New tech features, the best of which is capturing energy from the sun with three solar panels, should…

  • Sprinter Sold

    How to sell a camper van. This is the listing that we wrote to sell our Pleasure-Way class B RV as an example for others that want to sell their RV.

  • Spring Update: Robots, Birds, Deck, and Van Gone

    It has been a while with no exploring, so thought we should post an update. After retrieving the van from Florida, we turned it in to a dealer and ordered a new one. This will have a smaller footprint, solar panels and lithium ion batteries to facilitate off grid adventures in the future. They are…

  • Amtrak, Pelicans, Savannah & Wildlife

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    With our camper van in Florida and us in North Carolina, good friend Jim Thompson agreed to go on a quick trip with me to bring the van home. That allowed Beth to continue helping the Zebracorns, our favorite high school robotics team. Amtrak’s Silver Star offered overnight service from Cary, NC to St Petersburg,…