A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 324 miles from Mitchell to Custer, South Dakota.
Month: November 2025
Travel from Mitchell to Custer, South Dakota
We drove our coach 324 miles, about five hours of driving, from Mitchell to Custer, South Dakota.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading west:

Here’s another variation of the map showing time zones (Mountain and Central) and elevations for the whole year, with a circle showing the highest elevation of this trip; a lot of climbing at the end of the trip, though not as much as ones coming up soon:

An interactive map, with potential stops pinned:
Wind turbines and corn fields:

Dignity of Earth and Sky sculpture at a rest area:

The aforementioned rest area:

Crossing Missouri River:

Fun with zoom:

Sunflowers:

There seems to be a Beetle crawling up that silo:

Paladin reaching out to touch my foot:

Fun with zoom:

Entering Mountain Time Zone:

Stagecoach art:

Rest area:

Narrow roadworks:

Passing Badlands:

More roadworks:

Exit:

Buffalo sculpture:

Interesting rocks:

Arriving at our campground:

Spending a month exploring New Zealand
A heads-up: we will be visiting my family and exploring New Zealand for 30 days from November 7th to December 7th.
Blog posts will continue while away, since the posts are a couple of months behind real-time. Though I may not cross-post to Facebook during this time, since that has to be done manually, so if you read the posts via Facebook, you’ll need to visit the Sinclair Trails website directly if you don’t want to miss my thrilling content.
We’ll continue the RV lifestyle in NZ: we are renting a campervan and driving around the country. Here’s our route, starting in Auckland, and finishing in Christchurch (the southern loop is in a clockwise direction):

Not sure yet if I’ll have blog posts about our NZ adventure; no doubt I’ll take lots of photos, so I probably will. Stay tuned!