Category: Camping

  • Our Mentor

    Our Mentor

    On the way home we called our friend Greg, who had introduced us to Pleasure-Way vans, and he suggested meeting in St Mary’s, Georgia.  He and his trusty sidekick James beat us there and reserved two great spots at the end of a dead-end road in the park. Greg suggested Saint Mary’s Seafood & More…

  • Dad Meets Van

    Dad Meets Van

    ** Begin Rant ** One of the unpleasant surprises about van ownership is that condo associations in Florida don’t like vans in their parking lots. All of our siblings and parents have condos in Florida and we can’t park in any of their lots. We don’t want to camp overnight, just visit! ** End Rant…

  • Fort De Soto Park

    Fort De Soto Park

    We’ve moved to the gulf side of Florida to visit mom & dad Haskell. Fort De Soto Park was a great location to enjoy the beach and visit. We practically had the park to ourselves. Only one other couple was on the East Beach when we arrived. Scattered showers left us alone, though we could…

  • Fast Forward

    Fast Forward

    New, to us, Pleasure-Way Plateau-TS After taking a ten year hiatus to return to the working world, life has allowed us to resume full-time adventuring. The “vessel” this time is a van. Instead of sailing vessel, sv now stands for sprinter van,  so we get to keep the name svIntuition. Beth looks at home in…

  • Check out Day

    Check out Day

    Saturday is check out day at the condo Don & Donna Bartlett loaned us, so we got up and were on the road by 9. We were going to head to Gardiner ME, to meet cousins Randy and Linda at noon and follow them to the Haskell camp on Damariscotta Lake for lunch and possible…

  • Dive-in Theatre

    Dive-in Theatre

    What a hoot — today we went out on the m/v Seal and watched Diver Ed explore the bottom of Frenchman’s Bay via live video feed. Ed was a hit with the kids as he took “mini-Ed” (a plastic diver) with him and we saw live video of mini-Ed being attacked by lobsters and crabs,…