Traveling North America in our RV, the Ciaowagen

Leaving the Lake Taupo area, we traveled north to Rotorua. Although New Zealand has plenty of volcanos and earthquakes, Rotorua has the...

At the end of our last blog post, we were still at the bottom of the South Island. As much as we'd loved the mountains, lakes, and...

Continuing south from Wanaka , we drove twisty roads through mountain passes and arrived in Queenstown. Queenstown is the self-proclaimed...

We flew Qantas from Hobart, Tasmania to Christchurch, New Zealand on Friday, October 11 to begin Phase 3 of our Down Under adventures....

Tasmania (called "Tazzie" by most Australians) was very different than Western Australia. Temperate, even cold this time of year, rather...

We pick up our time in Western Australia after we left the Exmouth area for Shark Bay. Both peninsulas are UNESCO World Heritage sites....

Leaving Sydney on Saturday, September 7, we flew northwest all the way across Australia to the Indian Ocean and the town of Broome....

We landed in Sydney after a 15 hour flight from San Francisco on Qantas (22 hours of travel start to finish). We'd decided to spend a few...

We're very excited to share an upcoming adventure in Australia and New Zealand! We'll be gone about 11 weeks total, starting at the...

Before flying home to the US, we broke from our explorations of the rural UK countryside and spent our last few days in London. We drove...

On Wednesday, September 20 we took the ferry from Stornaway on the Isle of Lewis to Ullapool on the Scottish mainland, about a...

Leaving Ambleside at about 9 am, we started the eight-hour trek up to our island destinations: Skye and the Outer Hebrides (the island of...

After flying overnight from Dulles Airport to Heathrow, we picked up our rental car from Avis and began the drive north. Because we...

What, traveling again already? It is true that we've just wrapped up our 2023 RV summer travels. However, not ones to let the grass grow...

We had to leave Antarctica a day early because of storms forcasted in the seas between the Antarctic peninsula and the tip of South...

The "jewel in the crown" portion of our voyage began on Saturday, March 4 with a visit to Elephant Island. Elephant Island is where...

After leaving the Falkland Islands, it took two-and-a-half days at sea to arrive at South Georgia, which we explored for five days....

We boarded the MS Fram mid-afternoon on Sunday, February 19. We decided to get to the dock by walking the 25 minutes from our Punta...

We started our adventures with a long flight (three legs) to the southern tip of South America, flying first to JFK airport then from...

We WILL be getting back on the RV road in June, but in the meantime we're taking a COVID-postponed trip that includes Patagonia in Chile...