Tag: Pleasure-Way
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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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Chicago Traffic & Illinois Trains
Look who’s on the road ahead of us. Anyone with children or grandchildren will probably know this engine, even with a mask on. Today we’re running from Indiana Dunes National Park to Madison, Wisconsin with a stop at the Illinois Railway Museum (IRM). Google, Waze, Garmin, and Apple maps all recommended driving through Chicago using…
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Three Months with the Truma Aventa
Truma Aventa Eco Air Conditioner Update 2025-7-27: Truma now offers a unit that includes heat in the same footprint. Here’s a comparison of the available Aventa units: Update 2025-2-14: The system continues to operate as it did during the test the only issue we’ve had was when birds decided to build a nest…
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Liberty, Winchester and Truma
Leaving the campground at Brookville Lake, we headed north on Route 27 through another pretty midwestern town; Liberty, Indiana. This stately courthouse has been standing here since 1891. As long time readers realize, we enjoy stopping to see town squares and county courthouses and Liberty is the county seat for Union County. The town has…
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West Virginia Coal Stop
24 June 2022 Off we go on another summer adventure. This time it will be a return to Lake Superior to finish the circle route we started a couple of years ago. Heading north from NC, we often drive through the Virginia mountains and notice this shot tower from route 77. Only a short detour…
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