A blog about exploring North America in a Camper Van and a Sailboat.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Welcome to the Adventure
Welcome to the record of our year-long sailing adventure. We took off from North Carolina in June of 2006 where we explored the East Coast of the US and the Islands of the Bahamas until June of 2007. We’re back at work and school now and missing the life of new vistas and new friends.…
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Back in Durham
Intuition Log – 17 June Thursday morning, 07 June, we were up to meet Pete Waterson at 0730 who stopped by to take our Raymarine autopilot head back for warranty service. It was good of him to stop by on short notice. After spending the day organizing and cleaning the boat and packing the Honda,…
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School’s Out
Intuition Log – 06 June Noah worked hard Monday and Tuesday to finish his reviews and complete his final tests. Tuesday morning he completed the last exam! He built a fort in the salon out of sheets while we graded his exams. We’re happy to report that he did very well on all his tests.…