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Shearwater IV
About Us – The Travels of Joan and Stu, our travel trailer and previous boats
Menu and widgets
The Adventures of Joan and Stu
About Us and our Traveling Vehicles
2021 A Year of Travel During Covid
2021 08/31-9/3: Larry and Penny Thompson Park – Railroad Museum, Ichels, Zoo
2021 9/1 Key Biscayne Visit with Joan’s Cousin, Jan and David Ichle
2021 Summer: Road Trip
2021 05/20-23: C.B. Smith Park, Flamingo Gardens and Miami Motocross
2020 March – Visit Daytona Raceway
Continue to Jonathan Dickinson State Park and Trapper Nelson March 2020
2019 End of Year in Naples
2019 Autumn Travels
November 2019: The Hunt for Fall Foliage
2019 Thanksgiving to Jacksonville and Then Home
2019 Shalom Roamers at Fun N Sun Sarasota
May to August 2019, Travel to southwest US, northwest US, back to Austin, and home
May and June 2019: Leg 1, Home to Austin, Grand Canyon, Zion and Lake Mead
June, 2019: Leg 2, Stu Moving Trailer from Lake Mead to Portland OR
July 2019: Leg 3, Cruise the Snake and Columbia River
July-August 2019: Leg 4, Portland, OR to Salt Lake City, UT via Yellowstone and Grand Tetons
August 2019: Leg 5, Stu, Shirley, and Justin – Salt Lake City to Austin via Grand Canyon and Tempe
August–September 2019: Leg 6, Austin to Home (at Last)
Shearwater IV – Sold, July 2019
About the Shearwater IV, a Ranger 25
Interior Views and 2018 Refit
Ranger 25 – Shearwater IV Equipment List
Underway Air Conditioning
Inverter Installation and Battery Relocation
Solving the Shearwater Cooling Problem
2018 October: Fall Foliage RV Trip to the Smoky Mountains
2018 July/August: Rideau Canal, Canada
2018 May/June: RV Trip to Austin
2017 Fantasy Fest in Key West
Friday Night Costume Parade
Saturday Night Parade
2017 Autumn Motor Home Trip
Northbound along the Eastern Shore
Deanna Marissa Bat Mitzvah
Southbound on Skyline Drive and Blue Ridge Parkway
Entering Skyline Drive: Mathews Arm Campground
Big Meadows: The Great Tunnel Detour via Luray Caverns
Loft Mountain – the Southern Skyline Drive
South from Otter Creek Campground
Rocky Knob Campground Area
The Drive Home – some sightseeing and visiting friends and relatives along the way
Visiting Natalie, Ariel, and Matt Wellman in Charlotte NC
Camp Walmart, Jacksonville, St. Augustine, and another Camp Walmart
Walmart, breakfast on Fort Matanzas Beach, Melbourne to visit friends, and Home
Virgin Islands Sailing Adventure – Summer 2017
February 2017: Little Loop – the trip around South Florida
February 5: ICW from Home to Soverel Marina
February 6: Underway to St. Lucie Campground on the Okeechobee Waterway
February 7: Cross Lake Okeechobee to LaBelle – visit the Horses
February 8: Travel Labelle to Tween Waters
February 9: Boca Grande with Dodie and Dan
February 10: Placida and Ranger Rendezvous
February 13 to 15: Sanibel and Naples
February 15 to 17: Naples to Goodland
February 18: Towing to Islamorada
February 19 and 20: Crandon and the Miami Boat Show
February 21: Miami to Home at last
2016 SW Florida Ranger Rendezvous
Friday night “Rum Party” and “Cruising from Florida to the Bahamas” by Rich Obendahl and Mike Rizzo
Friday Arrival Dinner Feb. 5, 2016
Saturday Lunch and Boat Electronics by Bob Easterday
Saturday Surf and Turf dinner – February 6, 2016
Ranger Saturday night raffle
2016 Amsterdam Tulip Cruise
Arrival in Amsterdam and City Tour
WW II Arnhem Museum and Tour
Antwerp With a Pedestrian Tunnel Under Scheldt River
Floralia Excursion – beautiful flowers
Bruges Excursion – a Preserved Old City
Willemstad Organ Recital
Kinderdijk Windmills
Keuhenhof Excursion – Fantastic Flowers
Amsterdam Canal Boat Cruise
Amsterdam Photo Safari
2015 Mississippi River – Fall Foliage
Fun in the Sun II
Alma, Wisconsin – Quiet and Pretty
Lock and Dam 4 – near Alma, MS
Wabasha
Pepin, Wisconsin
Lake City
Lake City to Great River Harbor
Erie Canal – June 2015
Fairport, the Start of Our Adventure
Pittsford, Lock 32 and 33, and Kayaking
Spencerport June 13 – 14
Holley June 14 – 15, 2015
Albion -Greek Revival June 15, 2015
Culvert Road and Medina
Palmyra – June 18, 2015
Sheila’s Special Birthday
2020 Valencia Isles Chorus
Comprehensive Immigration Reform
2021 08/31-9/3: Larry and Penny Thompson Park – Railroad Museum, Ichels, Zoo
Stu’s Previous Boats
Amsterdam Canal Boat Cruise
