Traveling North America in our RV, the Ciaowagen

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...