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Sugarcreek called us back again. Turns out our 400 needed one more tweak. We're camped tonight in one of the nüCamp courtesy sites. Tomorrow we'll turn our baby over to Marvin for a battery change out then we'll be on our way. For now though it's glorious to watch the...
It's gotten to be a bit routine. We make the reservation via the KOA app. When we arrive Kayla greets us like old friends. We get the 400 situated then walk over to the Family Fun Center and order our pizza. Fifteen minutes later dinner arrives at our doorstep. After...
Stop number one on our Summer Ramble is lunch with Sharon & Paul at Fat Buddies in Waynesville NC. We four became friends in the early 1980's and our older children were playmates. In the early 1990's we were neighbors and our younger children were best buddies....
Despite the glories of our place in the mountains, we hear the call of the road. Starting today we are trading the comforts of our mountain house for the delights of living on the road in our 400. It's true that we travel mostly without reservations and avoid...
The rhododendrons are in bloom in our mountain cove. We're camped in the driveway as we make preparations for leaving on our Summer Ramble. We're often on the road by the time these lovely flowers make their appearance so it's a distinct treat to enjoy their...
Phil & Pat discovered through the T@B Forum that not only are we fellow 400 owners but that we live in the next county. Soon we were emailing each other then talking on the phone. Today we got the opportunity to meet and hang out in our 400 while we traded tips...
Winklepleck Grove is destined to host üCamp17, a gathering of nüCamp teardrops and truck campers scheduled for the week of July 24th. We came by yesterday to check it out and realized we'd been here before in search of a geocache!  This morning we stopped by a food...
Friends of ours called this evening and invited us to come over and sit on the porch to watch the sunset with them. We were enchanted with the play of light on the fields and the Amish family loading hay onto their horse drawn wagon. The weather was perfect and the...
Once upon a time in April 2009 when we purchased our Pleasant Valley Silver Shadow from Little Guy Worldwide on Whipple Street in Canton, Ohio we unwittingly became ambassadors for the teardrop campers manufactured by Pleasant Valley in Sugarcreek. Through the years...
Last evening we pulled into the KOA in Coshocton, the same place we stayed the first two nights after taking delivery of the 400 last month. Camille remembered and welcomed us back! But this time we're not able to linger, we'll make our morning coffee/tea and pour...
Planning a trip? Dreaming of travel? Perhaps some of our adventures could inspire yours! Over the last several years we’ve had the distinct pleasure of many cross country journeys traveling though the Lower 48 in tents and our various teardrop campers as well as an amazing Alaska adventure that did not involve a camper.
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Tonight is our tenth night of driveway camping in Bell@ at our mountain house. This has given us the chance to bring home some items that we'd used in Sc@rlett that we do not currently need as we continue to get settled into Bell@. And we had just a few things to do...
Up to this point we have reveled in unstructured trip planning but these are not ordinary times and we are behaving in an out of the ordinary manner. We are making campsite reservations. With the exception of two one night mid-week stays, we have reservations for the...
What a delight to go hang out for a couple of hours in a winery knowing that the trek home is walking just a few yards to our camper. That's just what Mike and Shelly offered us at The Rusty Nail in Martinsburg, West Virginia last night. Lucky for us they joined...