A blog about exploring North America in a Camper Van and a Sailboat.
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Wind Jamming on the Maine Coast
June 2013 Although I grew up in northern New York state, my parents are both maniacs, that is from the state of Maine. My father, being an art professor and having long periods of the summer free, would take the family back to Maine to visit relatives and take us tent camping on the coast. A…
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2019 Stats
Happy New Year and thank you to all who have visited our humble little blog. You have pushed the totals to 50,402 views and over 30,000 of those were this year! The most popular posts were all how to “Project” articles, followed by the site index: #1 Winterizing 2018 Lexor TS #2 Can I Leave…
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2019 Holiday Greetings
Dear Friends and Family: It was a rough Spring watching Mark’s dad slip away during a protracted battle with Alzeimer’s disease. After a celebration of Dad’s life in Florida, we were more determined than ever to travel, so set out on our longest land adventure yet. From an alligator ranch in Mississippi, to the soaring…
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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…
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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…
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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…