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Ciaowagen Website Index (thru June 2024)

Updated: Nov 12



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 states, visited 55 national parks, and spent time in both Canada and Mexico.


Spots Explored in the Ciaowagen: 2018-24

And that's only the Ciaowagen travel. We've also detailed trips to Italy, the UK, Patagonia, and Antarctica.


With so many blog entries, it can be difficult to find what you want. We thought we'd provide this "index" post with a few different suggestions for navigating our travel history, especially if you'd like to get ideas for your own travels. If you're a newer reader, you can catch up on areas of interest.


For now, we're focusing on Ciaowagen-related posts. We'll try to update this index every year or two to include new posts we've added.


Perhaps we'll do a separate index post for our international travel sometime.


Most Popular Posts


Here are the 10 posts with the highest number of visitor views (includes both Ciaowagen and international posts).



"Top Photos of..." Posts


A listing of our favorite images. We have to pare down from thousands of shots taken annually to only two or three dozen, so it's definitely a subjective process.



Posts About the Ciaowagen RV


Here are some posts about the Ciaowagen itself, including tours and upgrades. There are also a couple entries about our "toad" vehicle, the Fittata.


  1. Packing Up - 2019

  2. Introducing Our New (Old) Car - 2019

  3. Fit to be Tied - 2019

  4. Ciaowagen Open House - 2020

  5. RV Origin Story - 2020

  6. Ciaowagen in the Shop - 2021

  7. Under the Ciaowagen Hood - 2022

  8. Ciaowagen Winter Fixups - 2023


U.S. National Park Visits


We've been to 55 of the 63 national parks, some multiple times. Click the year to go to the applicable blog post. The remaining 8 national parks are not accessible by either road or a short flight/boat ride, so the Ciaowagen will probably not be able to visit them in future years.


  1. Acadia - 2022

  2. Arches - 2019, 2020, 2021

  3. Badlands - 2019, 2023

  4. Big Bend - 2020, 2024

  5. Biscayne - 2024

  6. Black Canyon of the Gunnison - 2020

  7. Bryce Canyon - 2019, 2020

  8. Canyonlands - 2019, 2020

  9. Capitol Reef - 2019, 2021

  10. Carlsbad Caverns - 2020

  11. Channel Islands - 2024

  12. Congaree - 2022

  13. Crater Lake - 2019

  14. Cuyahoga Valley - 2021, 2023

  15. Death Valley - 2019, 2024

  16. Denali - 2021, 2021, 2021

  17. Everglades - 2024

  18. Gateway Arch - 2019

  19. Glacier - 2019, 2021, 2021

  20. Glacier Bay - 2021

  21. Grand Canyon - 2020, 2020

  22. Grand Teton - 2019, 2020

  23. Great Basin - 2020

  24. Great Sand Dunes - 2020

  25. Great Smoky Mountains - 2020

  26. Guadalupe Mountains - 2020

  27. Hot Springs - 2019

  28. Indiana Dunes - 2021

  29. Isle Royale - 2023

  30. Joshua Tree - 2024

  31. Katmai - 2021

  32. Kenai Fjords - 2021

  33. Kings Canyon - 2024

  34. Lassen Volcanic - 2019

  35. Mammoth Cave - 2019

  36. Mesa Verde - 2020

  37. Mount Rainier - 2021

  38. New River Gorge - 2021

  39. North Cascades - 2019

  40. Olympic - 2019

  41. Petrified Forest - 2019, 2020

  42. Pinnacles - 2024

  43. Redwood - 2019

  44. Rocky Mountain - 2020, 2021

  45. Saguaro - 2019, 2024

  46. Sequoia - 2024

  47. Shenandoah - 2020

  48. Theodore Roosevelt - 2021

  49. Voyageurs - 2021

  50. White Sands - 2020, 2024

  51. Wind Cave - 2023

  52. Wrangell-St. Elias - 2021

  53. Yellowstone - 2019, 2020

  54. Yosemite - 2019, 2024

  55. Zion - 2019, 2020

In addition to the official national parks, we've visited national monuments, national seashores, national lakeshores, national recreation areas, national reserves, national wildlife refuges, and national historical sites. And, of course, we've visited some awesome state parks. Perhaps we'll link to them all in a future update of this blog post.



Canadian National Park Visits


We've been to a few Canadian national parks so far. All were beautiful.


  1. Banff (in Alberta) - 2021

  2. Cape Breton Highlands (Nova Scotia) - 2022

  3. Jaspar (Alberta) - 2021

  4. Kootenay (British Columbia) - 2021

  5. Forillon (Quebec) - 2022

  6. Gros Morne (Newfoundland) - 2022

  7. Pukaskwa (Ontario) - 2023

  8. Waterton Lake (Alberta) - 2019, 2021


We've also been to a number of Canadian national historic sites and provincial parks. Another opportunity for future linking.

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