Traveling North America in our RV, the Ciaowagen

Continuing a tradition, here are some of our favorite photos from this year's travels. We've included photos both from our April-May trip to Scandinavia and our September-October Ciaowagen trip on the Great River Road down the Mississippi. Boat Trip on the Sognefjord, Norway Norwegian coastline from the MS Richard With ferry Norwegian coastal sunset A very typical (but amazing) view of the Norwegian cost from the Coastal Express ferry Walking in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, 10:30

Continuing a blog tradition, here are some statistics for this past year's Ciaowagen travel: Days spent on the road: 58 (plus 3 retrieving the Ciaowagen from Nashville) Miles traveled by the Ciaowagen: 4,874 Additional Miles traveled by the Fittata: 2,390 TOTAL miles traveled: 7,264 States visited: 15 Campgrounds visited: 20 Fellow RVers traveled with: 29 (in 15 RVs) Depth of the Mississippi River at Lake Itasca: 10 inches Depth of the Mississippi River at New Orleans: 200 fe

If you read our last blog post , you'll know that we had a serious hiccup as we were returning to Virginia from New Orleans at the completion of our Great River Road group trip down the Mississippi River. Our engine died. We confess that the Ciaowagen has more than 105,000 miles on the odometer, 73,000 of those added by us since 2018. Our 2018-2025 travels, mapped out on Google Earth Although we've had multiple repairs/upgrades to the Ciaowagen during that time, the underlyin

As we said goodbye to our fellow Caravan Adventures travelers, we turned our sights to home, a trip that we thought would last about three weeks. Baton Rouge, LA Our first segment took us just an hour-and-a-half north to Baton Rouge, the Louisiana state capital. We took it easy on our arrival day, decompressing from the pace of the group activities. Interesting side note: we bought the Ciaowagen from Miller's RV, a Baton Rouge dealer, in May 2018. On Saturday, we participated

We ended our last blog post in St. Louis, the halfway point of our trip down the Mississippi River. After a long driving day, we arrived in... Memphis, TN Caravan Adventures, our travel company, booked us into the campground across the street from Graceland. We'd stayed at the campground once before all the way back in 2019, our first year of RV travel. Our first full day in town was a bus day and a rainy one (although we had been very lucky so far on the trip, with little