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Ciaowagen Website Index (thru June 2024)
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...
dougsmith51
Jun 29, 20243 min read
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Top Photos from 2023 and 2024
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...
dougsmith51
Jun 8, 20241 min read
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Ciaowagen 2024 By the Numbers
Continuing a tradition... here are factoids from our winter bi-coastal trip: Days on the road: 111 Miles traveled in the Ciaowagen: 8,850...
dougsmith51
May 25, 20241 min read
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Water Explorations, Plus Disney for our 40th Anniversary
We left New Orleans and arrived in Florida (finally crossing back into Eastern time) on Sunday, April 14. Staying overnight at a Cracker...
dougsmith51
May 18, 202411 min read
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Tex-iana
Many of our trips (RV and international) start with a seed idea (e.g., visit Alaska, take a photography workshop in the Italian...
dougsmith51
Apr 27, 20247 min read
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South by Southeast
After a great month in California, we turned our attentions toward Texas. However, since it would involve a journey of almost 1,200...
dougsmith51
Apr 13, 20244 min read
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California Dreaming, Part Two
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....
dougsmith51
Apr 6, 20247 min read
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California Dreaming, Part One
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...
dougsmith51
Mar 16, 20248 min read
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Whale of a Good Time in Baja
In the past, we'd considered bringing the Ciaowagen into Mexico. As you have noted, the subtitle of our blog talks about traveling North...
dougsmith51
Mar 2, 20245 min read
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Fun in the Desert
After our initial cross-country dash, we were finally able to settle in for some quality time in Arizona and Southern California. Our...
dougsmith51
Feb 15, 20245 min read
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South by Southwest
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...
dougsmith51
Feb 3, 20243 min read
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A Ciaowagen Winter Adventure
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...
dougsmith51
Jan 24, 20242 min read
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Ciaowagen 2023 by the Numbers
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...
dougsmith51
Oct 28, 20231 min read
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New York to Home
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...
dougsmith51
Sep 1, 20235 min read
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Eau Canada!
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...
dougsmith51
Aug 26, 20237 min read
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15 Surprising Things About the Great Lakes
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...
dougsmith51
Aug 19, 20232 min read
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The Black Hills of South Dakota
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...
dougsmith51
Aug 12, 202312 min read
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Michigan's Upper Peninsula
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...
dougsmith51
Aug 5, 20234 min read
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Wisconsin
After finishing our tour of Michigan's Lower Peninsula, we moved to the other side of Lake Michigan for some exploration of Wisconsin....
dougsmith51
Jul 20, 20237 min read
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Pure Michigan
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...
dougsmith51
Jul 1, 20234 min read
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