Travel

Follow us as we travel around the country. Below are my recent posts about our travels. The table below summarizes our travels while RVing.

  • Camping Diary 2024 December 3, 2023Camping Diary 2024
    Where will we go this year? Screenshot from TimeAndDate.com; Click the image for an interactive map of the path of the April 2023 total solar eclipse. We returned to Tampa, visited our storage unit and sorted a few things out. We spent May, …
  • Fresh Water Maintenance November 29, 2023Fresh Water Maintenance
    Campground water differs from City Water necessitating sanitizing and de-calcification of an RV’s freshwater system.
  • Where Is Home October 28, 2023Where Is Home
    “Don’t you ever go home?” a woman asked me after hearing about our nomadic lifestyle. After thinking about her question I decided I am home. See why my home needs an RV to experience its depth and its breadth.
  • Towing in the Wind October 11, 2023Towing in the Wind
    After three days with the wind in Kansas and eastern Colorado blowing and gusting against the left side of our trailer as we traveled west gave me time to think about towing against the wind. When we headed west from Abilene …
  • Rain, Rain, Go Away August 11, 2023Rain, Rain, Go Away
    When the rain threatened to spoil activities when I was a child we would chant: “Rain rain, go away! Come again another day!” Our hope was that the rain would go away. Now, as an RVer, that chant has a very different meaning.
  • Camping Diary 2023 June 30, 2023Camping Diary 2023
    This year we are planning our trips as a series of excursions, each having a different objective. Each section describes an excursion and includes a map.
  • The Best One-Mile Hike March 17, 2023The Best One-Mile Hike
    This trail had me on my knees more times in an hour than any other hike! Every few steps we saw a wonderful example of a plant in bloom, a great view of the desert, or wildlife.
  • King Canyon – Saguaro National Par… March 11, 2023King Canyon - Saguaro National Park
    What a difference a three months make in the Sonora Desert! We previously hiked this trail in December and it looked dry and tan. In March, after a wet winter, the desert looked lush! Many of the flowers are very …

States Visited while RVing

We have visited all 50 states and had residences in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida, Connecticut, Washington, New York, Kentucky, and Indiana. Touring with our trailer we can visit places at a more leisurely pace. We only list states below when we stay there at least a night in our travel trailer.

YearStates and Provinces camped in
for the first time in our Trailer
Camp- groundsTowing Miles
2020Florida4500
2021Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Alabama273,700
2022South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona506,250
2023Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Kansas, Colorado638,050
2024Louisiana, Mississippi, Iowa, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah456,550
2025Nevada, California, Oregon, Washington112,150
Idaho, Montana, North Dakota
Manitoba, Ontario
163,100
New Jersey121,600
41,925
Totals
thru
2025
41 USA States
2 Canadian Provinces
23233,825
United States of America map with states we have visited in our RV colored.