Traveling North America in our RV, the Ciaowagen

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...

NOTE: Now that we're traveling again, we'll be dropping blog posts every week or two. If you'd like to be notified when a new one drops,...

Back in the day (17 months ago), we had planned to travel to Alaska and back during 2020. Unfortunately, COVID-19 happened and we had to...

We are taking off in the Ciaowagen around May 18, and will be gone five-and-a-half months this time. Where are we headed? It's to a state...

When we headed west in the Ciaowagen in April 2019, we thought we might travel for a year tops. That initial trip turned into a...

We published a "favorite photos" summary blog post at the end of 2020. However, we realized we had not done the same for our Ciaowagen...

A quick note to our blog followers that we are getting back on the road again in 2021. Current plans have us leaving mid-May and not...

We get a lot of compliments on the photos we post in our blog. As principal photographer, Doug appreciates those compliments a lot. Most...

We arrived back at our "sticks and bricks" home in Virginia on October 30. It was good to be back among friends and family, but somewhat...

Although we'd enjoyed our visit to the Smokies, it was time for the final push toward home. We'd started off 2020 with a stop in the...

We arrived at Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP) prepared for beautiful nature and fall colors. We were NOT prepared for the...

As we left Big Bend National Park on October 6, we began the long road home to Virginia in earnest. We decided to book east with some...

[NOTE: While we are traveling through Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee, we thought we'd provide an "interlude" blog post about...

Our last blog entry covered some of the southwestern parks and monuments we visited on our circuitous back to the East Coast. This entry...