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Beach Camping at Cape Hatteras

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Sep 27th, 2020 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

We normally stay up near Kitty Hawk for our annual-ish Outer Banks weekend, but with the camper we decided to go farther south to Hatteras.

A few days prior to …



Blue Ridge Parkway Days 5-6

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Sep 16th, 2020 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

On Friday morning we backtracked from Stone Mountain State Park to the Blue Ridge Parkway and continued our journey south at milepost 229. It was foggy and cloudy and the …



Blue Ridge Parkway Days 3-4

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Sep 14th, 2020 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

We got up early on day 3 and packed up to move on down the road, but not without some excitement. We had a sewage hookup at the site but …



Blue Ridge Parkway Days 1-2

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Sep 13th, 2020 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

We started our week long adventure on Labor Day. While everybody else was headed home to go back to work, we were headed west to the Virginia mountains. We entered …



Journey is not just a band

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Sep 12th, 2020 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Journey is not just the band that produced one of the greatest make-out albums ever.

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If you are confused…

In other news, the six night trip down the Blue Ridge …



Ascape 6 – Beach Camping at First Landing State Park

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Aug 30th, 2020 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

The weather forecast a week out looked fabulous, mid 80s and sunny all weekend. Then Hurricane Laura set its sights on the US and once on land made a sharp …



29th Anniversary Haiku

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Aug 18th, 2020 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Virus ruined Spring
A Summer of discontent
I still fall for her



Ascape 5 – Wet Weekend at Douthat State Park

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Aug 15th, 2020 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

We got to our campsite at 6:30 PM on Friday. It started raining at about 7:30 PM. It stopped raining about 8 AM Sunday morning. You are not …



3 people in 153 days

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Aug 10th, 2020 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

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We’ve been social distancing for 153 days. In that time I have spent more than 5 minutes within 6-feet of my wife, my son, and my dentist. That’s it for …



Where are the good camping blogs?

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Aug 2nd, 2020 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

I just spent 30 minutes clicking through several “Top 20 camping blogs you must be reading now” articles. Do you know what I found?

A bunch of SEO optimized, glossy …