Category: Camping
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Tower Defense, Crabs, and Delaware Bay Ferry
Leaving the wild horses of Assateague behind, we drove north to Lewes, Delaware to catch the ferry across to Cape May, New Jersey. With plenty of time before our 5:15 departure, we elected to explore Cape Henlopen State Park. Formerly a military installation protecting the entrance to Delaware Bay, the park now has beaches, picnic…
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Bridges, Tunnels, and Horses
Heading to a Pleasure-Way camper van rally in NJ, we decided to leave a few days early and camp at Assateague Island on Maryland’s eastern shore. Getting there from North Carolina provided the opportunity to cross the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. The twenty-three mile bridge, trestle, and tunnel route across the mouth of the bay…
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Jordan Lake State Recreation Area
Sometimes you discover jewels in your own backyard. Jordan Lake State Park is one of those jewels. We’ve sailed small boats here for years, but had never visited a campground or the dam. A get-together of the NC Roadtrekkers and Friends group gave us an excuse to remedy that situation. With over 1,000 sites to…
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Robot Food Transport
FRC high school robotics competition season is underway and the van is back in service as a rolling chuck wagon. Here she sits in the parking lot at UNC Greensboro as the moon rises over the baseball stadium. Happily, our games were played inside the basketball stadium where temperatures were nicely controlled. We became interested…
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Kennedy Space Center
Heading home from visiting parents in Florida we decided to stop at Kennedy Space Center. We had witnessed a shuttle launch from Titusville’s Space View Park, back in 2006, but never actually visited Cape Kennedy. Another draw was that this is one of the few places our 18 year old, freshman engineering student, was interested…
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Abbeville and Home
29,642 8:47 AM 49° F Waking up at Calhoun Falls State Park we peeked out the window to find fog on the water. Campsite from our little beach. The beach has enough room to pull up a small boat. Lake Calhoun beckoned, but we didn’t bring a boat, so we decided to head…
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