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dougsmith51
Jun 24, 20235 min read
Great Lakes Cities
Leaving our Virginia home on June 8 (where the air quality was Code Purple due to the Canadian wildfires), we traveled north (toward the...
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dougsmith51
May 29, 20232 min read
Ciaowagen Winter Fixups
RVs... bad stuff can happen to them. Fortunately, we have the winter off-season to fix them back up. We did not make any internal or...
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dougsmith51
Apr 20, 20231 min read
Getting Back on the RV Road Soon!
Since last October, our blog has covered our international travel (to Italy, Patagonia, and Antartica). However, we still have our RV,...
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dougsmith51
Aug 27, 20221 min read
Favorite Ciaowagen Photos from 2022
Keeping up a tradition, we've distilled the 2,750 photos taken during the four months of our trip down to our 30 favorites, presented...
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dougsmith51
Aug 20, 20221 min read
Ciaowagen 2022 By the Numbers
Continuing a post-trip tradition, here are this year's stats: Days on the Road:104 (plus 10 at home during the trip) Miles Traveled:...
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dougsmith51
Aug 13, 20225 min read
The ZigZag Road Home
After six-and-a-half weeks in Canada, we left Niagara Falls, Ontario and crossed the border back into to the US near Buffalo on July 20....
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dougsmith51
Jul 23, 20225 min read
Quebec, Montreal, and the Falls
Although it's all in a single province, it took two long days of driving down the St. Lawrence River from the Gaspé Peninsula to reach...
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dougsmith51
Jul 10, 20226 min read
PEI and the Gaspé Peninsula
Newfoundland was the farthest east we’d go in our Canadian travels. After returning to Nova Scotia on the ferry and overnighting on Cape...
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dougsmith51
Jul 3, 20226 min read
Newfoundland
Newfoundland is an island, albeit a big one. It is considered a single Canadian province with Labrador, which sits on the mainland above...
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dougsmith51
Jun 25, 20225 min read
Nova Scotia
As we noted in our last blog entry, transmission problems with the Fittata kept us stuck in Virginia. However, our local transmission...
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dougsmith51
Jun 5, 20225 min read
The Maine Event
Leaving Vermont, we moved on to Maine for a two-week stay. Since we needed to make a short return to Virginia for a family reunion in...
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dougsmith51
May 23, 20226 min read
Cape Cod, Boston, and Vermont
NOTE: We did a lot in the past two weeks, so this blog entry is longer than some others. Our apologies, but we didn't want to leave...
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dougsmith51
May 8, 20224 min read
Northward Bound
Returning home from our initial swing to the south, we spent a few days seeing family and restocking the RV, then set off again - this...
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dougsmith51
Apr 30, 20224 min read
Southern Swing
Our 2022 RV travels began with a southern swing through Virginia and the Carolinas. We wanted to begin this year’s trip with some...
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dougsmith51
Apr 23, 20222 min read
Under the Ciaowagen Hood
RVs... Ours is pretty reliable, but it still needs maintenance and fixes. During Winter 2020-21, we'd made some substantial upgrades and...
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dougsmith51
Apr 2, 20221 min read
Ciaowagen Travel 2022 Starts Soon!
After wintering at our "sticks and bricks" home, we are ready to get on the road again in our home-on-wheels! As mentioned in our last...
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dougsmith51
Dec 19, 20211 min read
The Future of Ciaowagen Travel
When we bought the Ciaowagen, we said to ourselves "We'll travel for a year. It'll be great!" It was great - so much so that between...
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dougsmith51
Nov 28, 20211 min read
Favorite Photos from 2021
Continuing a tradition from previous years, we're sharing 35 of our favorite photos (plus a few videos) from our 2021 Ciaowagen travels,...
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dougsmith51
Nov 20, 20212 min read
Denali Revisited, Just in Time
Here's some recent news about Denali National Park that we wanted to share. You may remember that we visited the park twice during our...
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dougsmith51
Nov 14, 20211 min read
Ciaowagen 2021 By the Numbers
Wow! It was a fantastic six months of RV travel - definitely the most wide-ranging since we first took the Ciaowagen on the road in 2018....
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