Traveling North America in our RV, the Ciaowagen

The final portion of our 2025 Scandinavian adventure found us circumnavigating Iceland over 12 days. We'd been in Iceland once before, in...

After finishing our tour of the Norwegian coast, we moved on to Denmark to visit Copenhagen. We'd been there once before, in 1990, when...

As we've noted in other blog posts, almost every one of our trips starts with a core idea, and then we expand, adding other locations...

Svalbard. It's north. WAY north. North like the top of Greenland north. 78 degrees north, and only 800 miles from the North Pole. NOTE:...

We left home on Sunday, April 19 for an overnight flight to Europe. We changed planes in Amsterdam and flew on to Oslo, Norway, arriving...

OK, time for the Smiths to go out of town again! We spent the winter at home playing "Fun with Joints." Jeannette had her right shoulder replaced in January, and spent winter and early spring doing the required physical therapy. That's all complete, and she's back at 100%. To celebrate, we're headed to northern Europe for an exciting trip which includes Norway, Svalbard, Copenhagen, and Iceland. We tried plotting a regular Google Maps view of the trip, but the Mercator proje

Leaving the Lake Taupo area, we traveled north to Rotorua. Although New Zealand has plenty of volcanos and earthquakes, Rotorua has the...

At the end of our last blog post, we were still at the bottom of the South Island. As much as we'd loved the mountains, lakes, and...

Continuing south from Wanaka , we drove twisty roads through mountain passes and arrived in Queenstown. Queenstown is the self-proclaimed...

We flew Qantas from Hobart, Tasmania to Christchurch, New Zealand on Friday, October 11 to begin Phase 3 of our Down Under adventures....

Tasmania (called "Tazzie" by most Australians) was very different than Western Australia. Temperate, even cold this time of year, rather...

We pick up our time in Western Australia after we left the Exmouth area for Shark Bay. Both peninsulas are UNESCO World Heritage sites....

Leaving Sydney on Saturday, September 7, we flew northwest all the way across Australia to the Indian Ocean and the town of Broome....

We landed in Sydney after a 15 hour flight from San Francisco on Qantas (22 hours of travel start to finish). We'd decided to spend a few...

We're very excited to share an upcoming adventure in Australia and New Zealand! We'll be gone about 11 weeks total, starting at the...

Before flying home to the US, we broke from our explorations of the rural UK countryside and spent our last few days in London. We drove...

On Wednesday, September 20 we took the ferry from Stornaway on the Isle of Lewis to Ullapool on the Scottish mainland, about a...

Leaving Ambleside at about 9 am, we started the eight-hour trek up to our island destinations: Skye and the Outer Hebrides (the island of...

After flying overnight from Dulles Airport to Heathrow, we picked up our rental car from Avis and began the drive north. Because we...

What, traveling again already? It is true that we've just wrapped up our 2023 RV summer travels. However, not ones to let the grass grow...