Traveling North America in our RV, the Ciaowagen

After wintering at our "sticks and bricks" home, we are ready to get on the road again in our home-on-wheels! As mentioned in our last...

When we bought the Ciaowagen, we said to ourselves "We'll travel for a year. It'll be great!" It was great - so much so that between...

Continuing a tradition from previous years, we're sharing 35 of our favorite photos (plus a few videos) from our 2021 Ciaowagen travels,...

Here's some recent news about Denali National Park that we wanted to share. You may remember that we visited the park twice during our...

Wow! It was a fantastic six months of RV travel - definitely the most wide-ranging since we first took the Ciaowagen on the road in 2018....

We loved Alaska. We loved Canada. We loved the American West. However, we still needed to get ourselves - and the Ciaowagen - the 2,737...

The Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta was the last “scheduled” event of our 2021 travels. Rather than just heading straight back to Virginia,...

NOTE: We’re backing up in time from the recent blog post about our visit to the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta. The post before that one...

The Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta is the largest hot air balloon festival in the world, and one of the world's most photographed events....

When we finally reached the end of the Alaska Highway in Dawson Creek, British Columbia, we were only halfway down the length of BC, so...

The Last Frontier – at least that’s what the Alaska license plates say. It reminded us that the Alaska portion of our trip was nearing...

Much of the Alaskan tourist action takes place in the Fairbanks to Kenai Peninsula corridor. The eastern part of Alaska gets fewer...

Having escaped death-by-tsunami in Homer, we traveled to the other side of the Kenai Peninsula to the town of Seward. As the crow flies,...

Leaving the Denali area, we headed south to Anchorage. While Anchorage is the largest city in Alaska, TripAdvisor’s list of...

NOTE: This is our third trip to Alaska. We first flew there in 1985, the year after we were married, and spent three weeks touring Alaska...

As we've noted in other posts, at the time we were hoping to travel up to Alaska the Canadian border was still closed (and is currently...

We left North Dakota and headed southwest into Montana, the Big Sky state. We had some big distances to drive over the next...

OK, technically, North Dakota was the 39th state to join the union. However, it was also the one state that neither Jeannette nor Doug...

The Ciaowagen enjoyed a rest from our travels in Duluth, while we flew back home to Virginia to attend a Smith family reunion. It was the...

Michigan is one of those states that is divided into two, non-touching parts (ironically, Virginia is another). Having spent a few days...