Traveling North America in our RV, the Ciaowagen

In the past six years, we've dropped 130 blog posts. We've visited many, many amazing places. We've driven 75,000 miles through 49...

It's been a blog tradition to select - from the thousands of photos we take each trip - our favorite 20-30 to share with our readers. We...

Continuing a tradition... here are factoids from our winter bi-coastal trip: Days on the road: 111 Miles traveled in the Ciaowagen: 8,850...

We left New Orleans and arrived in Florida (finally crossing back into Eastern time) on Sunday, April 14. Staying overnight at a Cracker...

Many of our trips (RV and international) start with a seed idea (e.g., visit Alaska, take a photography workshop in the Italian...

After a great month in California, we turned our attentions toward Texas. However, since it would involve a journey of almost 1,200...

NOTE: This is the 2nd of a two-part blog story about our time in California. It's on the long side because there is so much to report....

NOTE: There’s more to write about our time in California than will fit in a reasonable-length blog entry. We’re dividing our California...

In the past, we'd considered bringing the Ciaowagen into Mexico. As you have noted, the subtitle of our blog talks about traveling North...

After our initial cross-country dash, we were finally able to settle in for some quality time in Arizona and Southern California. Our...

We left home on Wednesday, January 24th, with several inches of snow still on the ground of our Virginia home. Our month-long trip to the...

For the past couple of years, our RV trips have taken place in late spring and summer and we've kept to the Northern U.S. and Canada to...

Continuing one of our annual RV traditions, here are the stats for our trip around the Great Lakes: Days on the road: 82 Miles driven by...

After two-and-a-half weeks in Canada, we drove further downstream (east) on the St. Lawrence River and crossed back into the U.S. for...

After our side trip to the Black Hills, it was time to explore the Canadian side of the Great Lakes. Canada is much less populated than...

Here are some things we didn't know about the Great Lakes before starting this year's trip. Hopefully you'll find them interesting as...

While the primary focus of our 2023 RV trip was circuiting the Great Lakes, we'd always planned on a side trip to the Black Hills. We'd...

We arrived on the Upper Peninsula (which pretty much everyone there just calls "the U.P.") on July 12 after a 3.5 hour drive north from...

After finishing our tour of Michigan's Lower Peninsula, we moved to the other side of Lake Michigan for some exploration of Wisconsin....

That's what the license plates say. And, we have to admit, Michigan is a beautiful and largely rural state, once you get away from the...

Leaving our Virginia home on June 8 (where the air quality was Code Purple due to the Canadian wildfires), we traveled north (toward the...

RVs... bad stuff can happen to them. Fortunately, we have the winter off-season to fix them back up. We did not make any internal or...

Since last October, our blog has covered our international travel (to Italy, Patagonia, and Antartica). However, we still have our RV,...

Keeping up a tradition, we've distilled the 2,750 photos taken during the four months of our trip down to our 30 favorites, presented...

Continuing a post-trip tradition, here are this year's stats: Days on the Road:104 (plus 10 at home during the trip) Miles Traveled:...

After six-and-a-half weeks in Canada, we left Niagara Falls, Ontario and crossed the border back into to the US near Buffalo on July 20....

Although it's all in a single province, it took two long days of driving down the St. Lawrence River from the Gaspé Peninsula to reach...

Newfoundland was the farthest east we’d go in our Canadian travels. After returning to Nova Scotia on the ferry and overnighting on Cape...

Newfoundland is an island, albeit a big one. It is considered a single Canadian province with Labrador, which sits on the mainland above...

As we noted in our last blog entry, transmission problems with the Fittata kept us stuck in Virginia. However, our local transmission...

Leaving Vermont, we moved on to Maine for a two-week stay. Since we needed to make a short return to Virginia for a family reunion in...

NOTE: We did a lot in the past two weeks, so this blog entry is longer than some others. Our apologies, but we didn't want to leave...

Returning home from our initial swing to the south, we spent a few days seeing family and restocking the RV, then set off again - this...

Our 2022 RV travels began with a southern swing through Virginia and the Carolinas. We wanted to begin this year’s trip with some...

RVs... Ours is pretty reliable, but it still needs maintenance and fixes. During Winter 2020-21, we'd made some substantial upgrades and...

After wintering at our "sticks and bricks" home, we are ready to get on the road again in our home-on-wheels! As mentioned in our last...

When we bought the Ciaowagen, we said to ourselves "We'll travel for a year. It'll be great!" It was great - so much so that between...

Continuing a tradition from previous years, we're sharing 35 of our favorite photos (plus a few videos) from our 2021 Ciaowagen travels,...

Here's some recent news about Denali National Park that we wanted to share. You may remember that we visited the park twice during our...

Wow! It was a fantastic six months of RV travel - definitely the most wide-ranging since we first took the Ciaowagen on the road in 2018....

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...