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  • Upgraded from a battery separator to a DC to DC charger on our Pleasure-Way Lexor RV.

    Charging System Upgrade
  •   22 May 2025 Revisited a local favorite this week; the butterfly house at the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science in Durham, NC. Scroll down for photos of butterflies and a few other creatures at the museum. note: Mariposa is the Spanish word for butterfly. Beth and I always enjoy seeing the flowers and butterflies…

    Mariposas
  • 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…

    Yadkin Valley Meet-up
  • Noah made Mother’s Day 2025 special by flying into Charlotte early for a business trip. We had a wonderful weekend visit. The only thing we missed was having Siouxxanne there too. We road Amtrak’s Piedmont from Durham to Charlotte and avoided traffic, parking, and driving I-85 on a stormy weekend. The Durham station is in…

    Charlotte by Train
  • Backyard birds provide great entertainment when we aren’t traveling.  Here are a few of our favorites from early 2025. New birds added on 26 April 2025 Dark-eyed Junco A late season snow event, unusual in central North Carolina, made our feeders very popular. A Male Northern Cardinal and a bevy of Eastern Bluebirds gathered just…

    Birding at Home