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dougsmith51
May 20, 20203 min read
RV Origin Story
Before there was a Ciaowagen, there was another Smith family RV, one with no name. Our experience in the RV-With-No-Name led, years...
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dougsmith51
May 15, 20203 min read
In Celebration of Desert Plants
One of the reasons we decided to hunker down in Tucson, Arizona (and wait on COVID-19 developments) was so we could stay at Desert Trails...
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dougsmith51
Apr 16, 20205 min read
Ciaowagen Open House
NOTE: On April 10, we celebrated the one-year anniversary of getting on the road for our full-time travels. It's been a great adventure...
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dougsmith51
Mar 28, 20204 min read
We Messed with Texas
As COVID-19 continued closing in, we spent about a week in Texas. Our original plans had included both Austin and San Antonio, and we did...
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dougsmith51
Mar 19, 20202 min read
Nawlins
Wow, life in the time of coronavirus is changing rapidly. We just spent a few days in the New Orleans area. Friday we went into town and...
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dougsmith51
Mar 12, 20203 min read
Florida Finale
After a couple of weeks at home in Virginia, we drove the 800 miles back to St. Augustine, Florida, and settled in to explore America's...
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dougsmith51
Feb 18, 20205 min read
Field Report from The Mouse House
When we decided to include Florida in our 2020 travel plans, we knew that part of those plans would include Orlando and time at both...
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dougsmith51
Feb 6, 20203 min read
...Florida, Here We Come
Leaving Virginia in freezing temperatures, the first part of our 2020 adventures took us to Florida. On the way down, we spent a few days...
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dougsmith51
Jan 23, 20201 min read
2020, Here We Go...
We spent about a month at home, spending time with our kids, relatives, and friends for the holidays. We also had a passel of doctor and...
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dougsmith51
Dec 14, 20195 min read
Life on the Mississippi
We spent Thanksgiving week in Memphis, Tennessee. We wanted to find a fairly nice RV park with good access to the city, so we stayed...
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dougsmith51
Nov 23, 20196 min read
The Ozarks
Even though our primary plans for October-December were to visit Midwest cities, we've spent our time since Kansas City visiting the...
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dougsmith51
Nov 11, 20194 min read
Omaha and Kansas City
You'll remember from our last blog entry our intent to spend the time up until the Christmas holiday exploring cities in the middle of...
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dougsmith51
Oct 28, 20192 min read
City Slickers
We spent about 3-1/2 weeks back home in Virginia, but left there on October 21 for the 1,200 mile drive back to Sioux Falls, SD to pick...
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dougsmith51
Oct 9, 20193 min read
Eastward Bound
It was time to make another visit home, so we left the Tetons and headed east. Rather than flying home like in June, we decided to drive...
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dougsmith51
Sep 23, 20194 min read
Yellowstone and the Tetons
[NOTE TO OUR READERS: if you'd like to see bigger versions of the photos we're posting on our blog, click on the "Photos" tab for the...
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dougsmith51
Sep 8, 20193 min read
Glacier National Park and Other Montana Wonders
We spent a week at Glacier National Park in Montana, just south of the Canadian border. It's a park we visited in 1983 (when we were...
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dougsmith51
Sep 1, 20192 min read
It Was a Quiet Week in Lake...
As you can tell from our past blog entries, we've been traveling - and seeing - a lot since our return West at the beginning of July....
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dougsmith51
Aug 21, 20193 min read
The Other Washington
Out here in the West, when you say you're from Washington, people automatically assume you're from Washington state rather than the DC...
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dougsmith51
Aug 8, 20192 min read
The Oregon Trail
We've spent the last few weeks in Oregon. Some of that's been covered in our last blog post. We finished our stay here by visiting the...
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dougsmith51
Jul 28, 20192 min read
Water, Trees, and Mountains
We've spent the last couple of weeks in Northern California and Oregon. When we left Lassen Volcanic National Park, we drove to the...
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