Category: Camping

  • Sarasota Rally 2019

    Sarasota Rally 2019

    We drove down to Florida over the course of four days to attend the Pleasure-Way RV Club East (PWRVCE) rally in Sarasota. We really enjoy the friends we’ve made in the club and our times at these rallies.   It ran Wednesday through Sunday at Sun N Fun RV Resort. Here’s our chronological take on…

  • Village People and Pets

    Village People and Pets

    05 November 2019Pre-pandemic Adventures 0902 27,478 miles – Leave Gold Head Branch State Park 76° We’re taking a leisurely route south to the Pleasure-Way rally in Sarasota.  Having been several years since first seeing The Villages, the huge development geared to retirees, we thought it was time to stop in again and see how much…

  • Florida Gold, but no OJ

    Florida Gold, but no OJ

    04 November 2019Catching up on Pre-Pandemic Adventures 0932  27,373 miles – Leave Georgia’s Crooked River State Park 71° The road from here south crosses over inlets and marshes level with the Atlantic Ocean. Snowy egrets weren’t bothered by a morning fisherman zipping towards the beach. At 1008 we crossed the border and pulled into the…

  • Earthen Submarine

    Earthen Submarine

     03 November 2019Catching up on 2019 Adventures0840 Departed Cartersville Country Winery in Timmonsville, SC and followed the birds south towards Florida. By lunchtime we were in Georgia where we pulled off I-95 at the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force. The luncheon view was of a 1964 McDonnel 5-4C Phantom. This Vietnam War era…

  • Heading to Florida

    Heading to Florida

    02 November 2019Catching up on 2019 Adventures Going south for a Pleasure-Way owners rally and Thanksgiving with family has become a welcome November routine. This will be year four for a month-long Florida sojourn. Hay, that’s a nice trailer at the entrance to Cartersville Country Winery. We ended up here after an easy 181 mile…

  • Closing the Grand Circle – Home in NC

    Closing the Grand Circle – Home in NC

    09 Sept 2019 Time: 1100  Temperature: 76° F Odometer: 26,460 miles  Location: Home  Yesterday morning, we lingered in the parking lot waiting for Tamarack to open. There we picked up the vase Beth made in the glass blowing studio. It spent the night in a cooling oven while we slept comfortably in the parking lot.…