Traveling North America in our RV, the Ciaowagen

Before leaving the eastern side of the Rockies, we spent three days in Fort Collins, visiting our longtime friend Marge Corcoran - she...

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On June 9th, we left the Grand Canyon and headed south to Williams, Arizona. Williams is the town where people who take the train up to...

As with many national parks, the Grand Canyon closed in mid-March due to COVID-19. In hopes that it would reopen, we made reservations...

As COVID "watch and wait" continued, we relocated to Santa Fe, New Mexico in early May. As noted in a previous post, we'd enjoyed our...

Before there was a Ciaowagen, there was another Smith family RV, one with no name. Our experience in the RV-With-No-Name led, years...

One of the reasons we decided to hunker down in Tucson, Arizona (and wait on COVID-19 developments) was so we could stay at Desert Trails...

NOTE: On April 10, we celebrated the one-year anniversary of getting on the road for our full-time travels. It's been a great adventure...

As COVID-19 continued closing in, we spent about a week in Texas. Our original plans had included both Austin and San Antonio, and we did...

Wow, life in the time of coronavirus is changing rapidly. We just spent a few days in the New Orleans area. Friday we went into town and...

After a couple of weeks at home in Virginia, we drove the 800 miles back to St. Augustine, Florida, and settled in to explore America's...

When we decided to include Florida in our 2020 travel plans, we knew that part of those plans would include Orlando and time at both...

Leaving Virginia in freezing temperatures, the first part of our 2020 adventures took us to Florida. On the way down, we spent a few days...

We spent about a month at home, spending time with our kids, relatives, and friends for the holidays. We also had a passel of doctor and...

We spent Thanksgiving week in Memphis, Tennessee. We wanted to find a fairly nice RV park with good access to the city, so we stayed...

Even though our primary plans for October-December were to visit Midwest cities, we've spent our time since Kansas City visiting the...

You'll remember from our last blog entry our intent to spend the time up until the Christmas holiday exploring cities in the middle of...

We spent about 3-1/2 weeks back home in Virginia, but left there on October 21 for the 1,200 mile drive back to Sioux Falls, SD to pick...

It was time to make another visit home, so we left the Tetons and headed east. Rather than flying home like in June, we decided to drive...

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