Category: Camping
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North Carolina to Wisconsin – Day 2
14 June 2023 Today we travel from Beckley, WV to FMCA Headquarters in Cincinnatti, Ohio. We were up early investigating options for a replacement propane hose. The mining heritage here helped us out. Mining requires heavy equipment with hydraulic hoses, so there is an infrastructure of shops that can make hoses on demand. We called…
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North Carolina to Wisconsin – Day 1
13 June 2023 NC to Wisconsin Day 1 – Durham, NC to Beckley, WV Stopped to pick-up a recent map at the Virginia Welcome Center. Still love the VA tourism “I Love Virginia” theme. Virginia is thin here, so it was just an hour before we stopped at the West Virginia welcome center. We didn’t…
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Reidsville Camping, Trails, and Trains
24 May 2023 1415 54,860 Leave Home 1541 54,931 Reidsville, NC Lake Reidsville City Park We’re here for an overnight stay and will wander home tomorrow. The park office and store offer a simple place to check-in and get supplies. The forty-six sites here are priced at $28 for water and electric or $30 for…
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Roanoke River Towns
12 May 2023 Small town stops along the Roanoke River in North Carolina. 0753 54,691 73° Leave Sylvan Heights Bird Park, Scotland Neck, NC 0825 54,712 Halifax, NC We followed the signs for bus/van parking in Historic Halifax. It was too early for the visitor center, but we did walk around town and found that homes…
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Sleeping with a Southern Screamer
11 May 2023 That’s him, a Southern Screamer. Native to the southeast countries of South America, how did we end up listening to him one night? Well, we had finished spring commissioning our Lexor camper van and decided to take it out for an overnight to test the systems. Looking for someplace new to…
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