Author: Mark Haskell
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More Knowledge Project
With the largest battery we could find to fit under the hood installed, we now have the responsibility to manage that power to maximize the life of the battery. This means not drawing the battery down to more than 50%. With a 125 amp hour battery, we have 62 amp hours of usable capacity. The monitor…
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More Power Project
The ability to camp overnight without needing to plug into the grid is something that would be helpful, especially when transiting to a destination. The van has a single house battery that hasn’t really held much of a charge since we bought it used. Our project is two-fold: 1) Replace the existing battery with one…
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Camping Near UNC Asheville
A glimpse of the Foothills Before the Rain We’re relaxing after a quick trip to Asheville, NC. We were up in the mountains to tour the University of North Carolina at Asheville (UNCA). They have a Mechatronics major that interests Noah. It is a combination of Electrical, Mechanical, and Computer engineering. We were going to…
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Beads, Greenbrier, and George Washington
On the way home we stopped for the night at Greenbrier State Park so Beth could visit a bead store with things she can’t find in Durham. Beth enjoyed seeing the beads in person at the Hagerstown headquarters of the Potomac Bead Company. We parked in the main parking lot downtown and wouldn’t recommend it. There was an altercation amongst…
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Gettysburg
Gettysburg is close to Hershey, so we decided to spend a couple of days there on the way home. The battlefield is a National Park now and contains over 1,300 monuments to the people that fought on both sides in this turning-point in the civil war. It was a somber place that pays tribute to the soldiers and…
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Hershey Rally & RV Show
We drove to Pennsylvania to meet 45 other Pleasure-Way camping van owners at Hersheypark Campground. Over 100 people gathered to exchange ideas and see the RV show at the nearby Hershey convention center. Hershey is still the home of the Hershey chocolate factory. The measurement station at the bus stop made me chuckle. We looked…
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