Traveling North America in our RV, the Ciaowagen

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...