Tag: Pleasure-way
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Oh, Canada!
Even the best laid plans can go awry as we unfortunately discovered this week. We had to cut short our stay in Canada by 12 days and high-tail it back to Maine. You may wonder, why the sudden return?! We’ve had a terrific three weeks and met a number of wonderfully kind people. Canada is…
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Crossing the Border
We experienced some trepidation concerning crossing the border into New Brunswick. Unlike crossing the border during air travel, we had far more stuff with us, especially food, which is always a concern. Our border experience started off on a bad note. The customs guard asked for our license plate number. Apparently our bike rack obscures…
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Freeport, Maine
We had a pleasant and uneventful drive to Freeport, ME. No low overpasses, or police escorts. We traveled to Freeport expressly to visit the L.L. Bean Flagship store. L.L. Bean was founded in 1912 by Leon Leonwood Bean. Bean was an avid outdoorsman who grew exasperated with leaking leather boots and developed a waterproof…
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PA to MA
Our first day of travel began like so many others: A trip to the Municipal trash facility so we didn’t have garbage sitting in the trash can for 6 weeks: Parking our two cars at the end of the driveway so our lawn service could get their mowers into the back yard; and ensuring the…
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Sweet Start to Summer
Turns out that taking two quick trips in May was beneficial in so many ways. As mentioned in our last post, two of our favorite beach communities include the Outer Banks of North Carolina and Cape May, New Jersey. The purpose of traveling to these locales was to ensure the rig was ready for the…
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Time to Pack
We are one week away from the first of two short “shake-down” trips in May. We decided to take a couple shorter trips in May to 1) ensure we’re prepared for longer trips this summer, i.e., did we remember everything?! (thus, “shake-down”), 2) settle into our new rig (we only had a month in the…
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A few improvements before the start of the 2024 travel season
The temperatures have started to climb on the East Coast and that’s when the realization hit home that “Travel Season” is just a few months away. We best get started on all the improvements we contemplated doing when we purchased the Plateau XLTS last October so we will be ready for our first trip in…
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All Fun, Games and Peanuts™ Too!
We have mentioned Harvest Hosts many times in our travel blogs. As a reminder, Harvest Hosts is a membership organization that provides access to businesses that allow one overnight stay in their parking lots, so long as you frequent the business. We typically use Harvest Hosts for heavy travel days, which are days when we need to…
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Happy New Year!
Do you still make New Year’s resolutions? We did this year and one of our resolutions was to finally write a post about our new Plateau XLTS. This post will be more interesting to those who are curious about the technical aspects of RV travel. You may want to read our Needs, Wants and Budget post before…
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East and West Coast Pleasure-Way Connection Rally in a New RV
We left Native Spirits Winery and reached Branson, MO, a day before the Connection Rally so we spent the night at another Harvest Host, Missouri Ridge Distillery, which was a few miles from our destination. We enjoyed good bourbon and a quiet night after a 5 hour drive from Norman, OK. The Rally was held…