Traveling North America in our RV, the Ciaowagen

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 Ozarks in southern Missouri and northern Arkansas. It's an area we'd not been to before. After spending time in the Rockies and Sierras, and even the Appalachians, we'd be hard pressed to call these the Ozark "Mountains," but it is definitely hill country. We first visited the Lake of the Ozarks, a large man-made lake which is one of the most po

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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We spent a week at Glacier National Park in Montana, just south of the Canadian border. It's a park we visited in 1983 (when we were...

As you can tell from our past blog entries, we've been traveling - and seeing - a lot since our return West at the beginning of July....

Out here in the West, when you say you're from Washington, people automatically assume you're from Washington state rather than the DC...

We've spent the last few weeks in Oregon. Some of that's been covered in our last blog post. We finished our stay here by visiting the...

We've spent the last couple of weeks in Northern California and Oregon. When we left Lassen Volcanic National Park, we drove to the...

At the end of our last blog post, we were leaving Mono Lake and Yosemite and heading north. Our next stop was Lake Tahoe, a place we had...

After spending the month of June back home in Virginia, we flew to Las Vegas, got the Ciaowagen and the Fittata out of storage, and...

When last we blogged, we were leaving Page, Arizona. On May 16th (our son Tory's 31st birthday, incidentally) we drove to the small town...

After leaving Tucson, we drove to the outskirts of Phoenix, where we'd found an RV technician who could reinstall, onto Fittata 2, all...

We arrived in Tucson on Monday, April 29, and settled in at Desert Trails RV Park outside the city. During the winter, Desert Trails is...

We are still in Tucson (our next blog post will highlight our time here), about a week longer than expected, because we experienced...

When last we blogged, we had just arrived in Sante Fe, New Mexico. After so many days of cross-country driving, it was great to just relax for a few days. Sante Fe is more than 6,000 feet above sea level, so the nights were in the high 30s, and the daytime temperature only made it to the 60s. In addition to relaxing, we got around to see some of the local sights, including Bandalier National Monument, a canyon sculpted from 1,000 feet of volcanic ash laid down a million years

As we noted in our last blog entry, our departure from Virginia was delayed by some last minute repairs required on the Ciaowagen. We...