Gardens – The Spoke N Van

Mississippi Delta Spring 2026

May 5, 2026 Sally Comments 4 comments

The travel plans of full-time RVers are impacted by aspects of everyday life that affect everyone. Doctor appointments, the occasional emergency, vehicle repairs, and other commitments can carve unexpected chunks out of the calendar. After our winter break and some unforeseen adjustments to our spring calendar, we found ourselves with a block of time that needed a revised travel plan. In other years, we’ve experienced spring in the West. This year, we chose to stay east of the Mississippi (mostly)…

Early Spring near Richmond

May 5, 2025 Sally

We decided to try camphosting in Virginia. The application process took longer than we expected, but after a few months of jumping through all the hoops of the process, we were finally approved as camphosts. We checked out the opportunities and signed up for the month of April at Pocahontas State Park in Chesterfield, VA. Pocahontas is Virginia’s largest state park with more than 3,000 acres of forest, lakes, and recreational areas. During the summer months, the park has a…

December Dash to the South

January 5, 2025 Sally

Brrr. Time to head out from Pennsylvania in search of warmer climes. November ended with a super cold snap. For the very first time in our travels, we opted to spend our first night back on the road at a motel. Nineteen degrees can be risky territory for the van’s water lines. After a frigid, kind of nervous, night in the Virginia mountains, we continued into North Carolina. We stopped in Charlotte to spend a few days with John’s sister…