Yesterday I posted a 17 minute video with all of our motorhome travel from 2021 to 2024. But who has time for a 17 minute video? For total ridiculousness, here’s the same video sped up 20 times (with different music, to avoid chipmunk squeals), taking less than one minute.
summary
End-of-year summaries of posts in the previous year.
Video: 2021-2024 motorhome travel timelapses in 17 minutes!
Was the 2024 timelapses video not fast enough for you? Hey, I understand; 50 minutes is quite long, even at 20x the original timelapses speed.
This video combines the 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 timelapse videos, and makes them eight times faster (i.e. 160 times faster than original timelapses), so you can see about 20k miles of motorhome travel in about 17 minutes!
Chapters:
00:00 2021 travel
00:52 2022 travel
05:41 2023 travel
10:44 2024 travel
About Sinclair Trails:
The travels of David and Jennifer Sinclair around the US, full-timing in their 40-foot 2017 Tiffin Allegro Bus 40SP luxury motorhome.
We post timelapse videos of our travel days on YouTube, typically on Tuesdays.
On the Sinclair Trails blog, we post about RV modifications on Mondays, travel on Tuesdays, campgrounds and RV parks on Wednesdays, and exploring national parks and other parks and attractions on Thursdays and Fridays.
2024 stickers
On the passenger-side slide-out, we have a large sticker with the Sinclair Trails logo, a map of the US showing the states we’re visited, a QR code for the website, and stickers with the SinclairTrails.com domain name and @SinclairTrails social handle:
The states sticker consists of separate stickers for each state, applied to a base sticker. Our rule is that we have to have done something in a state for it to count (e.g. camp, eat in a restaurant, or explore something, not just driving through). Once we have done something in a new state, we add its sticker. So far, we’ve visited 38 of the 50 states:
We’ll want to replace these stickers at some point; the earlier ones are looking very faded. We’ll probably get new stickers that include Canada when we visit Alaska, since we’ll likely drive through part of Canada to get there.
Visiting Alaska is going to be a major project. And of course we can’t take our motorhome to Hawaii, but we’ll count that when we next visit there.
On the driver-side slide-out of the coach, we have stickers for each of the National Parks we have visited, that being another of the goals in our travels. We visited 12 more parks in 2024 (plus revisited several), so have visited 47 of the 63 parks; still a bunch to go:
Of course, we’ve also visited numerous National Monuments, National Historic Sites, and other classifications. With 433 units of various types in the National Park System, not to mention parks administered by states, forest services, etc, we had to cap the memorializing of them somewhere! National Parks are the goal; others are gravy.
However, inside our coach we have a framed board with a wooden map of the US, around which we add stickers and pins for any kind of attraction we visit (we prefer stickers, but tend to get pins, as they are smaller). It’s populated a bit more since 2023 and 2022, though still lots of space for future attractions:
The wooden map has pins for states we’ve visited; the pins feature the state flags:
Fun memorabilia.
2024 selfies
I thought it’d be fun to create an animated GIF of selfies and other pictures of Jenn and me from 2024. We’ve been to some interesting places!
2024 special posts
While most of the posts on this blog are about modifications, travel, campgrounds, and attractions, I sometimes post about other topics. This is a summary of those posts from 2024. (See also those from 2023 and those from 2022.) These posts have the special category (with earliest or latest posts at the top).
As with previous summaries, for each I include a link to the corresponding blog post, and a sample picture; see the post for details.
Third anniversary of buying our motorhome, with an updated tour of the interior:
U-Haul to move stuff from a storage unit to a shed:
ENGWE Y600 830W electric scooter:
Follow Sinclair Trails on Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, Micro.blog, Facebook, YouTube, and more:
Preminder app for iPhone helps remind you when to book RV parks:
2024 podcasts
In 2024 I started posting about RV-related podcasts that I enjoy. This is a summary of those posts.
Just a couple so far, but I plan to mention more in the future.
2024 other attractions
A summary of roadside attractions from 2024, and other attractions that didn’t fit in other summary posts.
Again, you can also see the attractions from 2023, from 2022, and from 2021. And you can see all of the attraction-related blog posts via the exploring category, with the earliest posts at the top, or the latest posts at the top, or more specifically the roadside attraction category (with earliest or latest posts at the top).
Total solar eclipse in Paris, Texas:
Iowa 80 truck stop in Walcott, Iowa:
Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota:
Mitchell Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota:
Custer Battlefield Trading Post & Cafe in Montana:
Oregon Cabaret Theatre: Legally Blonde, the Musical in Ashland, Oregon:
Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon:
Scenic drive along Dead Indian Memorial Road and Green Springs Highway in Oregon:
Shields Date Garden in Indio, California:
The Thing? in Arizona:
McGinn’s PistachioLand Home of the World’s Largest Pistachio in Alamogordo, New Mexico:
Moody Gardens Festival of Lights in Galveston, Texas:
Fun stuff.
2024 towns
This summary is about cities and towns I’ve posted about. I don’t tend to do these posts very often, so there aren’t many.
Again, you can also see the attractions from 2023, from 2022, and from 2021. And you can see all of the attraction-related blog posts via the exploring category, with the earliest posts at the top, or the latest posts at the top, or more specifically the town category (with earliest or latest posts at the top).
Marathon, Marfa, and more in Texas:
Marathon aerials and stars in Texas:
Some interesting places.
2024 food
A summary of food- and restaurant-related posts in 2024.
Again, you can also see the attractions from 2023, from 2022, and from 2021. And you can see all of the attraction-related blog posts via the exploring category, with the earliest posts at the top, or the latest posts at the top, or more specifically the food category (with earliest or latest posts at the top)
Robert is Here fruit stand in Homestead, Florida:
Our first Buc-ee’s in Smiths Grove, Kentucky:
Custer Battlefield Trading Post & Cafe on the Crow Indian reservation in Montana:
Oregon Cabaret Theatre: Legally Blonde, the Musical in Ashland, Oregon:
Ashland wineries: Quady North & Belle Fiore in Ashland, Oregon:
Ashland food in Oregon:
Shields Date Garden in Indio, California:
Red Bay food and shopping in Red Bay, Alabama:
Tasty stuff.
2024 theme parks
Not sure what it says about us that it’s worthwhile to have a summary post about theme parks, but here we are.
Again, you can also see the attractions from 2023, from 2022, and from 2021. And you can see all of the attraction-related blog posts via the exploring category, with the earliest posts at the top, or the latest posts at the top, or more specifically the theme park category (with earliest or latest posts at the top).
Universal Islands of Adventure Theme Park in Orlando, Florida:
Universal Studios Florida Theme Park in Orlando, Florida:
Disney World: Magic Kingdom in Orlando, Florida:
Disney World: Epcot in Orlando, Florida:
Disney World: Hollywood Studios in Orlando, Florida:
Disney World: Animal Kingdom in Orlando, Florida:
Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee:
Disney California Adventure in Anaheim, California:
Disneyland in Anaheim, California:
Fun times.