Traveling North America in our RV, the Ciaowagen

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...

We are headed east, back toward Virginia. On our way, we are visiting some national parks and monuments that were closed by COVID-19 in...

[NOTE: This blog entry follows on directly from our last one, profiling our travels in the first half of September 2020. We'd decided to...

We left Idaho after spending the month of August there, and first traveled south into Nevada. Nevada is a state with wide open spaces -...

After sweltering in Utah, we were glad to get to the cooler temperatures of Idaho at the beginning of August. We'd only been in Idaho...

So, we are spending August in Idaho, and we will have a blog post about Idaho soon, but eastern Idaho (where we first arrived) is just...

Our intention for a while has been to move from Colorado northwest into Idaho, but with a couple of stops along the way. First up, five...

Continuing our time in Colorado, we traveled south from Black Canyon to the small town of Ouray (pronounced "YOU-ray"). It bills itself...