A blog about exploring North America in a Camper Van and a Sailboat.
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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…
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Earthen Submarine
03 November 2019Catching up on 2019 Adventures0840 Departed Cartersville Country Winery in Timmonsville, SC and followed the birds south towards Florida. By lunchtime we were in Georgia where we pulled off I-95 at the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force. The luncheon view was of a 1964 McDonnel 5-4C Phantom. This Vietnam War era…
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Heading to Florida
02 November 2019Catching up on 2019 Adventures Going south for a Pleasure-Way owners rally and Thanksgiving with family has become a welcome November routine. This will be year four for a month-long Florida sojourn. Hay, that’s a nice trailer at the entrance to Cartersville Country Winery. We ended up here after an easy 181 mile…
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Power Cord Pain Solved
Our 2018 Lexor has been a pain to plug in since day one. The threads on the locking ring are difficult to engage when attaching the cord to the van. There is a simple and inexpensive fix. Notice this L shaped slot in the threads on the van side of the power connection? There is…
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Closing the Grand Circle – Home in NC
09 Sept 2019 Time: 1100 Temperature: 76° F Odometer: 26,460 miles Location: Home Yesterday morning, we lingered in the parking lot waiting for Tamarack to open. There we picked up the vase Beth made in the glass blowing studio. It spent the night in a cooling oven while we slept comfortably in the parking lot.…