Traveling North America in our RV, the Ciaowagen

We loved Alaska. We loved Canada. We loved the American West. However, we still needed to get ourselves - and the Ciaowagen - the 2,737...

The Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta was the last “scheduled” event of our 2021 travels. Rather than just heading straight back to Virginia,...

NOTE: We’re backing up in time from the recent blog post about our visit to the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta. The post before that one...

The Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta is the largest hot air balloon festival in the world, and one of the world's most photographed events....

When we finally reached the end of the Alaska Highway in Dawson Creek, British Columbia, we were only halfway down the length of BC, so...

The Last Frontier – at least that’s what the Alaska license plates say. It reminded us that the Alaska portion of our trip was nearing...

Much of the Alaskan tourist action takes place in the Fairbanks to Kenai Peninsula corridor. The eastern part of Alaska gets fewer...

Having escaped death-by-tsunami in Homer, we traveled to the other side of the Kenai Peninsula to the town of Seward. As the crow flies,...

Leaving the Denali area, we headed south to Anchorage. While Anchorage is the largest city in Alaska, TripAdvisor’s list of...

NOTE: This is our third trip to Alaska. We first flew there in 1985, the year after we were married, and spent three weeks touring Alaska...

As we've noted in other posts, at the time we were hoping to travel up to Alaska the Canadian border was still closed (and is currently...

We left North Dakota and headed southwest into Montana, the Big Sky state. We had some big distances to drive over the next...

OK, technically, North Dakota was the 39th state to join the union. However, it was also the one state that neither Jeannette nor Doug...

The Ciaowagen enjoyed a rest from our travels in Duluth, while we flew back home to Virginia to attend a Smith family reunion. It was the...

Michigan is one of those states that is divided into two, non-touching parts (ironically, Virginia is another). Having spent a few days...

NOTE: Now that we're traveling again, we'll be dropping blog posts every week or two. If you'd like to be notified when a new one drops,...

Back in the day (17 months ago), we had planned to travel to Alaska and back during 2020. Unfortunately, COVID-19 happened and we had to...

We are taking off in the Ciaowagen around May 18, and will be gone five-and-a-half months this time. Where are we headed? It's to a state...

When we headed west in the Ciaowagen in April 2019, we thought we might travel for a year tops. That initial trip turned into a...

We published a "favorite photos" summary blog post at the end of 2020. However, we realized we had not done the same for our Ciaowagen...