Bella Vato Adventures

Greetings and thank you for reading our blog. We embarked upon our Van life adventure to the Pacific NorthWest (PNW) on Tuesday June 17. Working steady in the weeks leading up to our departure  was a lot so pulling out of the driveway was celebratory and a big relief. Unlike boat life, we'll be able to literally stop anywhere we want for anything we need so whatever we may have forgotten will not be a problem.  8 am and its off we go on our Van life adventure to the PNW. Bella has found her preferred spot between the two front seats on the floor while we're underway. It's an odd space to us because she can't see out the windows but she insists on it so we try to make it as comfy with her bed and a fan. June 17 & 18 - Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky  a Unesco World Heritage sight with over 400 miles of mapped continuous passages making it the longest cave in the world is our first stop.  We have reservations for 2 nights in the campground because there is muc...

March 24, 2025 Shake Down Cruise We have been outfitting the van in some very basic ways to make her our own. Being no strangers to small spaces we feel the best way to figure out exactly what we need, and what we don't need, is to go camping with what we have so far and continue our to-do list from there. So off we went on a two night camping trip to a campground located right on Lake Blue Ridge in Georgia, which is only about 40 minutes from our house.  This is our route from our home in Brasstown to the Morganton Point Campground on Lake Blue Ridge in Georgia Many of the campsites are waterfront We arrived at the Morganton Point Campground and found our well appointed site located on a bluff overlooking the lake. Sweet! The parking space and pad are gravel which really cuts down on tracking sand into the van. Hiking trails are limited in this campground and since it's so early in the day we decided to put out our chairs (and inconspicuously lock them to the picnic table) and...