A blog about exploring North America in a Camper Van and a Sailboat.
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Lake Superior RR and Amnicon Falls
21 July 2022 Awoke to a pretty day at Chippewa Campground. We really enjoyed having a lakefront campsite. Though we heard loons and sandhill cranes overnight, we only spotted a family of mallards paddling by this morning. On the road at 0800, it wasn’t long before we paused for a construction delay. Sitting in traffic,…
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Chippewa Waterfront Campsite
20 July 2022 Today we left Madison Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota after three weeks bouncing around campgrounds in the Madison area. Lake Mendota County Park has a convenient dump station on a paved loop next to their restrooms and bath house. With our water full and waste tanks empty, we headed north towards Lake Superior.…
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Fridge DC Mode Troubleshooting
11 October 2022 2018 Lexor TS Refrigerator Troubleshooting Our Dometic RML 8330 UL fridge wasn’t working on 12 Volt DC. This had happened a couple of years ago and it was a non-working circuit breaker. This time we traced it to the DC 12V 30A relay. We followed the power to the relay with a…
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West of Madison
08 July 2022 Our son’s car is in the shop and we aren’t optimistic that it will be coming out soon. A diagnosis is promised within a week, so we are going to explore nearby in case we need to return to the Madison, Wisconsin area to help him shop for a replacement vehicle. Having…
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Holiday Greetings
Couldn’t resist using this Great Egret balanced on the top of a Norfolk Pine. We watched him land there while visiting mom in her Florida condo. Our little camper van has been perfect for travel during the pandemic. Starting with a nice June visit with the kids in Wisconsin, we continued north to Lake…
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Madison Area Campgrounds
If you are visiting the capitol of Wisconsin, you don’t have to stay in a hotel. Now that our son, his wife, and two dogs live in the area, we have been trying out the nearby campgrounds. In today’s post we share three of them along with a few things to do in the area.…