Traveling North America in our RV, the Ciaowagen

A quick note to our blog followers that we are getting back on the road again in 2021. Current plans have us leaving mid-May and not...

We get a lot of compliments on the photos we post in our blog. As principal photographer, Doug appreciates those compliments a lot. Most...

We arrived back at our "sticks and bricks" home in Virginia on October 30. It was good to be back among friends and family, but somewhat...

Although we'd enjoyed our visit to the Smokies, it was time for the final push toward home. We'd started off 2020 with a stop in the...

We arrived at Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP) prepared for beautiful nature and fall colors. We were NOT prepared for the...

As we left Big Bend National Park on October 6, we began the long road home to Virginia in earnest. We decided to book east with some...

[NOTE: While we are traveling through Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee, we thought we'd provide an "interlude" blog post about...

Our last blog entry covered some of the southwestern parks and monuments we visited on our circuitous back to the East Coast. This entry...

We are headed east, back toward Virginia. On our way, we are visiting some national parks and monuments that were closed by COVID-19 in...

[NOTE: This blog entry follows on directly from our last one, profiling our travels in the first half of September 2020. We'd decided to...

We left Idaho after spending the month of August there, and first traveled south into Nevada. Nevada is a state with wide open spaces -...

After sweltering in Utah, we were glad to get to the cooler temperatures of Idaho at the beginning of August. We'd only been in Idaho...

So, we are spending August in Idaho, and we will have a blog post about Idaho soon, but eastern Idaho (where we first arrived) is just...

Our intention for a while has been to move from Colorado northwest into Idaho, but with a couple of stops along the way. First up, five...

Continuing our time in Colorado, we traveled south from Black Canyon to the small town of Ouray (pronounced "YOU-ray"). It bills itself...

Before leaving the eastern side of the Rockies, we spent three days in Fort Collins, visiting our longtime friend Marge Corcoran - she...

NOTE: We've upgraded the "Travels" tab on our website to show more about past and future plans. Check it out! After three months in...

On June 9th, we left the Grand Canyon and headed south to Williams, Arizona. Williams is the town where people who take the train up to...

As with many national parks, the Grand Canyon closed in mid-March due to COVID-19. In hopes that it would reopen, we made reservations...

As COVID "watch and wait" continued, we relocated to Santa Fe, New Mexico in early May. As noted in a previous post, we'd enjoyed our...