Ka'a Nui (The Big Van Project)

Up early at domes head, day rise had to es of people showing up for sunrise. Janet's realive Morning Same sign, different side Not your not about this evacuation sign. Not sure if there would be much hope if this went bad.  N

Day twenty-seventh of van life 3.0, October 25th, 2025. Waking up at the domes head was super cool. Considering it took us over an hour to get 1 mile.   Currently at a place with signs showing evacuations routs due to nuear power. Not sure if that would help but camp is cheap and showers are warm. What a day!  Woke up at domes head and now at Harrison campground.  Nice drive, bumpers after forest roads, but nice to be doing 70mph with Ka'a Nui.  Hope for a bath and and oils change very soon.

Day twenty-six of van life 3.0, October 24th, 2025. Scurvy is starting to set in, the crew looks to the horizon, ahh, that was capt blog, we are doing great, van is heated, a fridge and a freezer are delightful and meals plentyful. We left Dublin Virginia after getting up at 6am, and heading to the lake for sunrise 🌄.  Birds and mist make for anze full morning. 

Day twenty-five of van life 3.0, October 23rd, 2025 Janet's relive of our drive today . We are off to the great smokey mountains, as we chase the warmth heading south.  We hope, as we have a frost alert for the morning... A brutally cold morning, but off we go.  We leave Crozet Virginia for the great smokey mountains.  Alas, we discover the blue ridge parkway and drive that.  What a bonus ride.  This road is perfect for bikes, motorized that is.  We stop and head into town for fueling up and come back for the scenic 35mph drive, occasionally 45mph, lol. Not to smokey mountains, but to Dublin Virginia.  Awesome drive and great weather.  We are keeping an eye on some bad weather from the west as well as huricanne from the south..

Day twenty-four of van life 3.0, October 22nd, 2025 We hike springs falls trail nice and part of the Appalachian trail system. Relive from the hike

Day twenty-three of van life 3.0, October 21th, 2025. https://www.relive.com/view/vevWzN4Koyq Our hike from the Rose river falls.  We give the falls a three, short not much water.  Check out the guy fly fishing. Up with the deer We leave the park to check out Loray caves, and what a great recommendation Let's see if copy and post works any better. Day twenty-three of van life 3.0, October 21th, 2025. https://www.relive.com/view/vevWzN4Koyq Our hike from the Rose river falls.  We give the falls a three, short not much water.  Check out the guy fly fishing. Up with the deer We leave the park to check out Luray caverns, and what a great recommendation by Jeff. Kinda magical  It's a big place. It's about a mile of walking underground. Reflections Hard to tell were one starts, and the other ends Can't get enough of the reflections  Or the warm smiles Enough already, but so cool.. Happy campers. Or spelunker's  The wishing well, has raised over ...

Day twentytwo of van life 3.0, October 20th, 2025 What a day!  In Shenandoah park from the north side. Camping at Mathew arm campground and dinner was left overs of sausage, veggies and cheese with a tomato sauce. Yum! Now sitting at campground our fire is about down to ambers and I'm ready for a shower.  Planning for the next few days I push for several nights here in this area.  We are about 21 days from returning to Hawaii. Not soon in my book.  It is really nice to get here by 430 or so and get organized go for a walk and make dinner ballad no Internet how grand is that. Icecream does well in freezers bonus round having a freezer for sure. Park is amazing, and weather is fantastic.  Not a ton of pre pics as I was driving and we ended up at Walmart twice, second time our GPS gave up the ghost, crapped out or as they say took a shit and died. Second one is better, but has issues.  Not a recommended Garmin as a navigation system for sure.  Need to ret...