Traveling North America in our RV, the Ciaowagen

If you read our last blog post , you'll know that we had a serious hiccup as we were returning to Virginia from New Orleans at the completion of our Great River Road group trip down the Mississippi River. Our engine died. We confess that the Ciaowagen has more than 105,000 miles on the odometer, 73,000 of those added by us since 2018. Our 2018-2025 travels, mapped out on Google Earth Although we've had multiple repairs/upgrades to the Ciaowagen during that time, the underlyin

As we said goodbye to our fellow Caravan Adventures travelers, we turned our sights to home, a trip that we thought would last about three weeks. Baton Rouge, LA Our first segment took us just an hour-and-a-half north to Baton Rouge, the Louisiana state capital. We took it easy on our arrival day, decompressing from the pace of the group activities. Interesting side note: we bought the Ciaowagen from Miller's RV, a Baton Rouge dealer, in May 2018. On Saturday, we participated

We ended our last blog post in St. Louis, the halfway point of our trip down the Mississippi River. After a long driving day, we arrived in... Memphis, TN Caravan Adventures, our travel company, booked us into the campground across the street from Graceland. We'd stayed at the campground once before all the way back in 2019, our first year of RV travel. Our first full day in town was a bus day and a rainy one (although we had been very lucky so far on the trip, with little

NOTE: This is the 150th post on the Ciaowagen blog! Amazing that we've been able to keep it going these past seven years. Thank you to...