Traveling North America in our RV, the Ciaowagen

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Even though our primary plans for October-December were to visit Midwest cities, we've spent our time since Kansas City visiting the...

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...

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...

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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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...

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....

Out here in the West, when you say you're from Washington, people automatically assume you're from Washington state rather than the DC...

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...

We've spent the last couple of weeks in Northern California and Oregon. When we left Lassen Volcanic National Park, we drove to the...