Our maps below show you our routes for each year of our travels, from the current year immediately below, back through when we started our full-time journey in 2018. The maps even include our 6 month trip in 2013 before we knew we’d eventually be full-time travelers! Check back here to follow our route as we update our maps annually.
You can always see the areas we show on our maps and the adventures we discuss in general terms below in more detail in our Travel Destinations posts and in our YouTube videos!
2025 Travel Route – Florida & Germany Christmas Markets
2025 has been slower paced than some of our previous years, to make time and space for our kids to be part of some activities, clubs, and events they don’t usually get the chance to do when we’re traveling more frequently. They’ve had a lot of fun with that so far!
Rather than traveling internationally in the summer and fall this year like the last 2 years, we are waiting until the winter, so we can experience German Christmas markets as a family. We’re very excited for that, so stay tuned!
2024 Travel Route – Florida, Cruise to Spain, Germany & the UK
In 2024 we spent the first several months in Florida continuing to have fun at Disney World theme parks and also checking out several Florida springs.
In the spring, we took our first family cruise! We cruised with Royal Caribbean from Miami to Barcelona, Spain. This transatlantic was so fun that we booked a return cruise from Barcelona to Miami in the fall. It was a fun way to travel this year instead of taking overseas airplane flights!
While in Europe we explored Barcelona, the Costa Blanca Spanish coast, visited Germany again, and went on to the UK. There we started in Scotland where we spent most of our time in the Central Belt region. We also spent time in the Lake District of England and in Northern Wales along the coast.
After such long but fulfilling travels, we enjoyed being back in Florida for another winter.
2023 Travel Route – Texas to Kentucky, Germany, UK, & Ireland
We continued our travels east across Texas visiting Big Bend National Park and the cities of El Paso, San Antonio, Austin, Houston, and Waco along the way. In Louisiana we absolutely had to see and eat the food of New Orleans.
We enjoyed Gulf Coast beaches in Mississippi, and natural bridges, caves, waterfalls, and rockets on our way north through Alabama. After heading through Tennessee and Kentucky we put our RV into storage and flew to Europe for a summer of international travels.
We first spent 3 months in Germany, then a month in Northern Ireland, UK, and finally a whirlwind 3 and a half weeks traveling around Ireland and back to Dublin for a flight home to the US.
By the fall we were back in Florida and decided it was time to give Disney a try, so we bought our first annual passes. Disney World, RVing friends, and the holidays kept us busy through the end of the year.
2022 Travel Route – Michigan Loop, Colorado & Into the Southwest
Rather than leaving Oregon in January or February, we extended to March as we had found out we were expecting our 3rd child! This let Christine get an ultrasound and make a plan with her providers in Colorado for when we should plan to be there for appointments and when we could travel in between.
We went to Death Valley National Park and explored St. George, Utah and surrounding state parks on our way to Colorado. After a good first midwives visit we were ready to head on. Our goal was to explore Michigan, so we went by way of Ledges State Park in Iowa, and Indiana Dunes National Park in Indiana before traveling up the (mostly) west side of Michigan into the Upper Peninsula.
Michigan was incredible and highlights included the Tulip Time Festival in Holland, MI, the town of Frankenmuth and its German charm, a day on Mackinaw Island, and Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.
From there we traveled through northern Wisconsin where we did one of our favorite things to date, a private boat tour of the Apostle Islands. Traveling onward we saw Duluth, Minnesota and the North Shore, Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota, and ended our travel loop back in Colorado.
Our third little one was born over the summer and we stayed in Colorado into the fall to make sure mom and baby were doing well and had all the necessary checkups before moving on. The rest of the year was spend traveling down through New Mexico and into Texas to explore more of this state!
2021 Travel Route – Arizona & Northwest
After the New Year, we left Nevada and headed to Arizona. We knew we wanted to spend some extensive time exploring this state, but we didn’t realize how long we’d end up being there. We didn’t leave Arizona until the end of May! There were so many amazing things to see and do and we spent time in Sedona, Prescott, Flagstaff, Page, Lees Ferry, the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, and many places in between and at amazing boondocking sites.
It started getting hot so we decided to head north, with only a short stop in Utah on the way through and on into Idaho. We spent a good month and a half in Idaho, getting some appointments taken care of and mostly exploring the West Tetons / Teton Valley, which was so amazing!
Next we headed to explore the Pacific Northwest. Our travels included Mount Rainier National Park and finally visiting North Cascades National Park which had been on our list for years. From there we went to the Wallowa Mountains in eastern Oregon.
This winter we spent moochdocking in Kevin’s parents’ backyard and spent the holidays with them in Oregon. It was a fairly mild but wet winter. We spent most of our time here hanging out with family but took some local day trips to the central Oregon coast and Redwoods National Park.
2020 Travel Route – Out West
There were several events in Florida we wanted to attend this year, such as a couple of RV family rallies, so we stuck around into March with only a quick trip up to Savannah, Georgia and Charleston, South Carolina for a few weeks to break up our time in Florida.
Whatever other plans we had for the year were called off once the pandemic began and we instead decided to head west to Colorado via Louisiana and Texas and then quickly on to family in Washington and Oregon to hunker down for a while.
When we finally started traveling a bit again in mid-August, we went through southern Idaho, to northwest Montana. Due to the wildfires in the west we then headed south pretty quickly for a little while, into Utah and Nevada where we explored for a bit.
We headed back up to Oregon for late fall, then spent the holidays through the new year in Nevada.
2019 Travel Route – Midwest & Northeast
We were still in Florida at the beginning of 2019. Our plans thereafter were dictated by the need to head north and take care of some RV maintenance back at the Jayco factory, so we went to Indiana and Illinois for the spring.
Once complete, we continued traveling through Iowa, Wisconsin, and South Dakota. We spent a couple months in the height of summer back in Colorado. Then we took off toward the Northeast for the fall and changing leaves, stopping to explore in Ohio and Pennsylvania, then New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine including all the way up to Acadia National Park and Bar Harbor.
Then we headed slowly down the east coast stopping in Boston, Massachusetts, D.C./Virginia, North Carolina and arriving back in Florida for another winter.
2018 Travel Route – Fulltime RVing Begins
We began our full-time RV travels in February 2018 from Denver, Colorado. We were pretty local to that area for a few months, getting settled in, and preparing things to really launch. This helped us figure out all the ins and outs of our RV.
Then we started traveling further by visiting family back and forth across the country in Washington, Oregon, and Illinois. We even took a trip to Germany in the spring. Finally, we headed to Florida in the fall to establish residency and spend the winter.
2013 Travel Route – 6 Month Sabbatical
In 2013, we took a 6 month sabbatical from work and moved from the Northern Virginia / Washington, D.C. area to Denver, Colorado. Since this was a temporary RV trip, we tried to pack in as much as we could see and as many sites as we could. We traveled a good bit of the country. This is what our route consisted of:
First we headed to Kentucky and Indiana to visit friends. Then we went to a few state parks as well as Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas. Thereafter a long drive north to Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota, and on to the Black Hills region in South Dakota. Next it was on to Grand Teton National Park and Yellowstone in Wyoming.
We then went to Idaho and Craters of the Moon National Park, before continuing north to Glacier National Park. Next we visited Washington and the Olympic Peninsula. From there we continued down the pacific coast into Oregon, to Tillamook, Honeyman State Park, Portland, and Crater Lake.
Then we continued south into California to see Redwood National Park, Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks, and Joshua Tree National Park. We wrapped up our trip with the Grand Canyon, a stop in El Paso, Texas and on to Denver, Colorado to settle back down again, for a little while…
Here are some fun stats from this 6 month road-trip:
- States: 28 individual states, 35 counting states each time we were there
- Miles Traveled: approximately 16,000 mi (25,750 km), ~9,000 mi (14484 km) were towing
- Books Read: 34
- Miles Hiked: 200.9 mi (323.32 km)
- Camping Spots: 25
- Family & Friends’ Places stayed at: 10
- Nights at Wal-Marts: 6
- Hotels: 6
- Friends who stayed with us in our RV: 3
- Weddings Stumbled Upon: 9
- Cheapest & Most Expensive Gas: $2.99 (New Mexico) – $4.29 (North Dakota)
- Lowest & Highest Elevation: 0 ft (0 m) sea level – 10,450 ft (3,185 m) Rendezvous Peak, Jackson Hole
- Flat tires: 2