Traveling North America in our RV, the Ciaowagen

In the past six years, we've dropped 130 blog posts. We've visited many, many amazing places. We've driven 75,000 miles through 49...

It's been a blog tradition to select - from the thousands of photos we take each trip - our favorite 20-30 to share with our readers. We...

Continuing a tradition... here are factoids from our winter bi-coastal trip: Days on the road: 111 Miles traveled in the Ciaowagen: 8,850...

We left New Orleans and arrived in Florida (finally crossing back into Eastern time) on Sunday, April 14. Staying overnight at a Cracker...

Many of our trips (RV and international) start with a seed idea (e.g., visit Alaska, take a photography workshop in the Italian...

After a great month in California, we turned our attentions toward Texas. However, since it would involve a journey of almost 1,200...

NOTE: This is the 2nd of a two-part blog story about our time in California. It's on the long side because there is so much to report....

NOTE: There’s more to write about our time in California than will fit in a reasonable-length blog entry. We’re dividing our California...

In the past, we'd considered bringing the Ciaowagen into Mexico. As you have noted, the subtitle of our blog talks about traveling North...

After our initial cross-country dash, we were finally able to settle in for some quality time in Arizona and Southern California. Our...

We left home on Wednesday, January 24th, with several inches of snow still on the ground of our Virginia home. Our month-long trip to the...

For the past couple of years, our RV trips have taken place in late spring and summer and we've kept to the Northern U.S. and Canada to...

Continuing one of our annual RV traditions, here are the stats for our trip around the Great Lakes: Days on the road: 82 Miles driven by...

After two-and-a-half weeks in Canada, we drove further downstream (east) on the St. Lawrence River and crossed back into the U.S. for...

After our side trip to the Black Hills, it was time to explore the Canadian side of the Great Lakes. Canada is much less populated than...

Here are some things we didn't know about the Great Lakes before starting this year's trip. Hopefully you'll find them interesting as...

While the primary focus of our 2023 RV trip was circuiting the Great Lakes, we'd always planned on a side trip to the Black Hills. We'd...

We arrived on the Upper Peninsula (which pretty much everyone there just calls "the U.P.") on July 12 after a 3.5 hour drive north from...

After finishing our tour of Michigan's Lower Peninsula, we moved to the other side of Lake Michigan for some exploration of Wisconsin....

That's what the license plates say. And, we have to admit, Michigan is a beautiful and largely rural state, once you get away from the...