Traveling North America in our RV, the Ciaowagen

We needed to return to Northern Virginia in early June for about 10 days to attend a family reunion, a family wedding, and many doctor appointments. While there, we kept the Ciaowagen in a campground very close to the Boise airport. Smith family reunion in Lancaster, PA. Great to spend time with Doug's siblings, nieces and nephews, and great-nieces and -nephews. This is jeannette's niece Kat Morris and her fiancé Jared at the wedding rehearsal celebration. We returned to Bois

Baker We left Moab for Baker on Thursday, May 21. As Moab sits close to the Utah-Colorado border, we headed pretty much due west for 330 miles, crossing the entire state. Baker is just over the Nevada border, and we moved into Pacific Daylight Time for a few days. The last 50-60 miles of the drive was through empty desert - just sagebrush, salt flats, sand, and a whole lot of nuthin'. The town of Baker is quite small, with a campground, a motel, a general store, a gas station

We traveled to Moab on May 12, and on our way from Capitol Reef National Park to Moab we stopped at Goblin Valley State Park (which according to at least one list is "The Best State Park in Utah"). Goblin Valley State Park The valley is full of compact hoodoos that look like they're made of mud but are in fact Entrada Sandstone (the same material that makes up Arches National Park). Hoodoos are rock formations that have very solid stone on top and softer layers of stone benea

Utah has 5 national parks, all in the southern half of the state, and we planned to visit them all. We crossed into Utah from Arizona on April 30, changing time zones (to Mountain Daylight Time) in the process. Zion National Park Our first destination was a small campground in Mount Carmel Junction, which lies close to eastern entrance to Zion National Park. Zion is the 2nd most visited national park, and most people come to it via the town of Springdale on the southern side