Category: Trains

  • Yadkin Valley Meet-up

    Yadkin Valley Meet-up

    08 May 2025 Our first camping trip of 2025 was a fun two night stay in Jonesville, NC. We camped at Riverwalk RV Park, in order to meet-up with Beth’s sister and brother-in-law.  It’s a private, full hook-up park with pull-through sites that are great for big rigs. A bluebird perched on the park road…

  • SE Florida Trainspotting

    SE Florida Trainspotting

      November 2024 Passenger and freight train photos from our ten days at Jonathan Dickinson State Park in Hobe Sound, Florida. If you camp at Jonathan Dickinson State Park’s Pine Grove campground, it is only a short walk to the Florida East Coast Railway double track mainline. Signals at the one grade crossing in the…

  • Savannah South to Palatka

    Savannah South to Palatka

    03 November 2024 – Sunday Day 3 of 4 as we drive to Sarasota, Florida for a Pleasure-Way Owners Rally. We travel from a Harvest Host brewery in Savannah, GA to another in Palatka, FL with a stop in the charming waterfront town of Brunswick, GA. 0848  69,353  68°F  Savannah, GAFall back to Standard Time…

  • First Hipcamp Experience

    First Hipcamp Experience

    01 November 2024 — Friday Day 1 of 4 as we drive to Sarasota, Florida for a Pleasure-Way Owners Rally. We try a Hipcamp site for the first time tonight. 1010 68,991  68°F  Leave Home With lots of relatives in Florida, we do the trip from NC to southern Florida several times a year. The…

  • RR Museums and Champaign

    RR Museums and Champaign

    05 October 2024 – Saturday Heading south from Wisconsin to Illinois we stopped at three museums on the way to an overnight stay at a delightful winery. 0830  67,798  55°F  Leave our son’s house heading towards home 1000  67,859  63°F  Exit 3 in Indiana Dumped our holding tanks at Loves Truck Stop for $10 1120…

  • West to Indiana and Wisconsin

    West to Indiana and Wisconsin

      22 September 2024 – Sunday We head west to Wisconsin, stopping overnight at Indiana Dunes National Park on Lake Michigan, then checking out the Ellwood Museum in LaGrange, Illinois, and wandering around a town in Wisconsin influenced by Norwegian immigrants. 1015  67,288  66°F  Leave Romeo, MI 1155  67,341  74°F  M59@I-96  Stopped and made lunch.…