2022 attractions, part 2

Continuing from yesterday, a summary of some of the attractions we visited in 2022.

This is part two of four, covering April through June, inclusive. Check out part one, if you haven’t already.

2022 attractions, part 1

One of the main reasons for traveling the United States in a motorhome is to explore the many wonders around the country. This is a summary of some of the attractions we visited in 2022. Again, you can see the ones from 2021 in last year’s summary post.

We’ve seen so much, I split this post into four parts, one for each quarter of the year. This is the first part, for January through March, inclusive.

As with the previous summaries, I’ll include a link to the corresponding blog post, and a sample picture. Click or tap the link or picture to see more.

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.

January 2022

Xscapers Bash in Lake Havasu City, Arizona:

London Bridge in Lake Havasu City, Arizona:

Palm Canyon in the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge, Yuma, Arizona:

Hike in Coachella Valley Preserve, California:

February 2022

Downtown Palm Springs, California:

Palm Springs Aerial Tramway, California:

Salton Sea, California:

A hike in Joshua Tree National Park:

Disney day 1; Disneyland:

Disney day 2; Disney California Adventure:

Disney day 3; Disneyland:

Disney day 4; Disney California Adventure:

Disney day 5; Disneyland:

Medieval Times in Los Angeles:

Warner Bros Studio Tour:

March 2022

El Capitan State Beach:

Channel Islands National Park and wildlife cruise:

Cabazon Dinosaurs:

Saguaro National Park near Tucson, Arizona:

Rooster Cogburn Ostrich Ranch:

Check out part two!

2022 campgrounds

Another interesting summary of 2022 — the places we stayed during the year. A much longer post than 2021, which you might also want to revisit.

For each location, I’ll include a link to the corresponding blog post, so you can click through to see a lot more information, and a picture of our site. Enjoy!

You can also see all of the campground-related blog posts via the campsite category, with the earliest posts at the top, or the latest posts at the top.

Black Rock RV Village in Salome, Arizona:

Xscapers Bash at Lake Havasu Rodeo grounds in Arizona:

Leaf Verde RV Resort in Buckeye, Arizona:

Catalina Spa and RV Resort in Desert Hot Springs, California:

Orangeland RV Park in Orange, California:

Ocean Mesa RV Resort near Santa Barbara, California:

Lakeview campground in the Rancho Jurupa Regional Park in California:

Thousand Trails Palm Springs RV Resort in Palm Desert, California:

Buckeye Desert Backyard in Buckeye, Arizona:

Picacho/Tucson NW KOA Journey in Picacho, Arizona:

FMCA “Sunsets + Saguaros” annual convention in Tucson, Arizona; pre-convention site:

FMCA site:

Thousand Trails Verde Valley RV & Camping Resort in Cottonwood, Arizona:

Grand Canyon Railway RV Park in Williams, Arizona:

Lake Mead RV Village in Boulder City, Nevada:

Young’s RV Park in Caliente, Nevada:

The Riverside Ranch in Hatch, Utah:

Thousand Lakes RV Park in Torrey, Utah:

Green River KOA Journey in Green River, Utah:

Monument Valley KOA Journey in Monument Valley, Utah:

Ancient Cedars Mesa Verde RV Park in Mancos, Colorado:

Montrose / Black Canyon NP KOA Journey in Montrose, Colorado:

Vernal / Dinosaurland KOA Holiday in Vernal, Utah:

Tiffin rally at the Sweetwater Events Center in Rock Springs, Wyoming:

Mountain Valley RV Resort in Heber City, Utah:

Village of Trees RV Resort in Declo, Idaho:

Ambassador RV Resort in Caldwell, Idaho:

Fish House Inn & RV Park in Dayville, Oregon:

Thousand Trails Bend-Sunriver RV Campground in Bend, Oregon:

Gill’s Landing RV Park in Lebanon, Oregon:

LL Stub Stewart State Park in Buxton, Oregon:

Mt Hood RV & Camping Resort in Welches, Oregon:

Alder Lake Park Rocky Point Campground in Eatonville, Washington:

Mom’s house near Shelton, Washington:

Concrete / Grandy Creek KOA Holiday in Concrete, Washington:

Brookhollow RV Park in Kelso, Washington:

Plymouth Park Campground in Plymouth, Washington:

Gilmore West Campground in Farragut State Park in Athol, Idaho:

McGregor Lakes RV in Marion, Montana:

Moose Creek RV Resort and B&B in West Glacier, Montana:

Jim & Mary’s RV Park in Missoula, Montana:

Osens RV Park in Livingston, Montana:

Buffalo KOA Journey in Buffalo, Wyoming:

El Rancho Village RV Park & Cabins in Wheatland, Wyoming:

St Vrain State Park in Longmont, Colorado:

Cheyenne Mountain State Park in Colorado Springs, Colorado:

Alamosa KOA Journey in Alamosa, Colorado:

Taos Valley RV Park in Taos, New Mexico:

Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta:

Palomino Campground in Caballo Lake State Park in Truth Or Consequences, New Mexico:

Las Cruces KOA Journey in Las Cruces, New Mexico:

Slow Play RV Park in Ruidoso Downs, New Mexico:

Carlsbad KOA Holiday in Carlsbad, New Mexico:

Loma Paloma RV Park in Presidio, Texas:

Marathon Motel & RV Park in Marathon, Texas:

Pecan Valley RV Park in Junction, Texas:

Hidden Valley RV Park in San Antonio, Texas:

Corpus Christi KOA Journey in Corpus Christi, Texas:

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Video

Video: 2022 motorhome travel timelapses

See a summary of driving our Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome throughout 2022!

This combines all of the motorhome travel timelapses for 2022 into one video, at 20x the speed of the original timelapse videos.

2022 travel days

I thought it’d be interesting and useful to include a summary of travel days. Here are links to blog posts, and a sample picture of the view of each, so you can see how the landscape changed as we travelled in our coach.

You can see all of the travel-related blog posts via the travel category, with the earliest posts at the top, or the latest posts at the top.

Travel to Lake Havasu City, Arizona:

To Buckeye, Arizona:

To Desert Hot Springs, California:

To Orange, California:

To Santa Barbara, California:

To Jurupa Valley, California:

To Palm Desert, California:

To Buckeye, Arizona:

To Picacho, Arizona:

To Tucson, Arizona:

To Cottonwood, Arizona:

To Williams, Arizona:

To Lake Mead, Boulder City, Nevada:

To Caliente, Nevada:

To Hatch, Utah:

To Torrey, Utah:

To Green River, Utah:

To Monument Valley, Utah:

To Mancos, Colorado:

To Montrose, Colorado:

To Vernal, Utah:

To Rock Springs, Wyoming:

To Eatonville, Washington:

To Shelton, Washington:

To Concrete, Washington:

To Kelso, Washington:

To Plymouth, Washington:

To Athol, Idaho:

To Marion, Montana:

To West Glacier, Montana:

To Missoula, Montana:

To Livingston, Montana:

To Buffalo, Wyoming:

To Wheatland, Wyoming:

To Longmont, Colorado:

To Colorado Springs, Colorado:

To Alamosa, Colorado:

To Taos, New Mexico:

To Albuquerque, New Mexico:

To Truth or Consequences, New Mexico:

To Las Cruces, New Mexico:

To Ruidoso Downs, New Mexico:

To Carlsbad, New Mexico:

To Presidio, Texas:

To Marathon, Texas:

To Junction, Texas:

To San Antonio, Texas:

To Corpus Christi, Texas:

2022 travel route

Happy New Year! 🎉

As we begin 2023, let’s look back at our coach travel in 2022. You may also want to check out the 2021 travel summary.

For another perspective on our travels, check out the Coach Timelapses playlist on the YouTube channel, which will enable you to watch all or some subset of the driving timelapses. Kinda interesting seeing how my editing style has evolved (minimally) — the first several videos didn’t even have a soundtrack.

We bought our 2017 Tiffin Allegro Bus 40SP diesel pusher motorhome on September 2, 2021, and other than a few times when we’ve been out of it during servicing appointments, we’ve lived in it full-time since then.

When we bought the coach, it only had 5,161 miles on it. In 2021 we drove it about 2,300 miles. In 2022 we drove another 8,772 miles, so have driven it 11,072 miles on our adventures so far, for a grand total of 16,233 on the odometer.

One of our goals is to visit every state. In 2022 we stayed in 5 new states: Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas, joining Washington, Oregon, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, California, and Arizona in 2021, for a total of 12. We actually went to all 12 in 2022, revisiting states we’d been to before. As we head back to our Pacific Northwest domicile each year, we’ll see a lot more of those states. Still lots more yet to visit!

Here’s a map of our coach travels and stays in 2022, via the excellent RV Life Trip Wizard website, using a variation of their maps that more clearly shows the state borders and color-coded time zones (did you know that a portion of Oregon is in the Mountain time zone?). The route starts south of Phoenix, Arizona, heads west to the California coast, back to Arizona, then heading north, doing a big serpentine loop though the states in a generally clockwise direction, ultimately ending the year in coastal Texas:

Timezones

Another variation of the map, with more detail:

Route map 2022

And finally, the route map with the travel in 2021 also displayed in different colors; our Yellowstone trip in brown, our 2021 coach travel in green, and our 2022 travel in blue:

Route map 2021 to 2022

Fascinating!

Video

Video: 2021 motorhome travel timelapses

I’ll soon be publishing a video showing all of our motorhome driving timelapses in 2022, so I thought I’d first publish one for 2021, to be complete. Or as complete as possible; I didn’t get a dashcam until about a month after we got the coach.

This video is 20x the speed of the original timelapse videos.

2021 modifications

We have done a number of modifications to our 2017 Tiffin Allegro Bus 40SP motorhome, to make it more comfortable as a full-time home, to improve the features, or to repair issues. This is a summary of some of the changes done in 2021.

As with previous summaries, for each I include a link to the corresponding blog post, and a sample picture; see the post for details.

You can see all of the modification-related blog posts via the modifications category, with the earliest posts at the top, or the latest posts at the top.

Removing couches; we removed the two couches that came with the coach, so we could replace them with our swivel recliner chairs and a desk:

Couch dissembly

Toad installation; installing the tow bar and related changes, to tow our truck behind the coach:

Tow bar

Minor mods including a towel holder, shower tweaks, necklace racks, and chair levelers:

Towel holder

Desk; a desk and cat litter box where a couch used to be:

Desk

Cooktop; replacing the induction cooktop:

Removed cooktop

Media cupboard; rearranging to fit our equipment:

Media cupboard

AGM batteries; we had the house batteries replaced with better ones:

Batteries

We also got a couple more solar panels installed; I didn’t do a blog post about those, though you can see them (covered in leaves) in the Valley of the Rogue drone shots post (I can’t believe I haven’t flown my drone since then; I really should do so):

Coach roof

Tire pressure monitoring system; to make sure none of the tires have an issue while driving:

Display unit

Upgraded Spyder control panel; a much nicer panel:

Upgraded control panel

Replaced lights; fixed some flickering lights:

Replaced lights

Smart surge protector; to help avoid electrical issues:

Power Watchdog

Clear sewer hose extension; to help watch the flow:

Wet bay

Toilet flush switch replacement; fixing an unreliable switch:

Trying replacement switch

There are a few more modifications that I did in 2021; stay tuned for posts about them over the coming days.

2021 attractions

One of the main reasons for traveling the United States in a motorhome is to explore the many wonders around the country. This is a summary of some of the attractions we visited in 2021.

I’ll skip the many Yellowstone National Park places; check out the Yellowstone posts for those.

As with the previous summary, I’ll include a link to the corresponding blog post, and a sample picture. Click or tap the link to see more.

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.

Olympic National Park in the Northeast corner of Washington state:

Above the clouds at Hurricane Ridge

Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, OR:

Spruce Goose plane

Golden ghost town in southern Oregon:

Golden store and homestead

Oregon Vortex in southern Oregon:

House of Mystery

Lassen Volcanic National Park in California:

Visitor center

New Clairvaux Vineyard in Vina, CA:

Tasting room

Bidwell Mansion in Chico, CA:

Bidwell Mansion

Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, CA:

Gardens

California’s Great America in San Jose, CA:

California's Great America

Apple Park Visitor Center in Cupertino, CA:

Apple Park

Pinnacles National Park in Paicines, CA:

Rocks

Monterey Bay Aquarium in Monterey, CA:

Jellyfish

California coast:

Bixby Creek Bridge

Joshua Tree National Park in Indio, CA:

Joshua trees

Bombay Beach, Salton Sea, CA:

Beach art

The Living Desert Zoo WildLights in Palm Desert, CA:

Holiday lights

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in southern Arizona:

Visitor center

Painted Rock Petroglyph Site in Gila Bend, AZ:

Petroglyph rocks

Japanese Friendship Garden of Phoenix, AZ:

Pond

Pedal boats at Encanto Park in Phoenix, AZ:

Ducks

Scorpion Gulch and Dobbins Lookout in Phoenix, AZ:

Scorpion Gulch

Phoenix Zoo lights:

Zoo lights

Goldfield Ghost Town in Arizona:

Gunfight

Boyce Thompson Arboretum in Arizona:

Cacti

Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, AZ:

Chihuly

We’re looking forward to seeing several more National Parks and many other attractions in 2022!

2021 campgrounds

Another interesting summary of 2021 — the places we stayed during the year.

I’ll start with buying our coach, then our Yellowstone trip in a rental travel trailer, and continue with our subsequent coach stays. For each location, I’ll include a link to the corresponding blog post, the campground map (if available), and a picture of our site. Enjoy!

You can also see all of the campground-related blog posts via the campsite category, with the earliest posts at the top, or the latest posts at the top.

Pasco / Tri-Cities KOA Journey in Pasco, WA, where we purchased the coach:

Campsite

At our homestead in Estacada, OR:

Coach at homestead

For our Yellowstone trip in the rental travel trailer; Grand Hot Springs in La Grande, OR:

Grande Hot Springs

Campsite

Twin Falls / Jerome KOA in Jerome, ID:

KOA

Trailer

Madison campground, Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming:

Campsite

Jim & Mary’s RV Park in Missoula, MT:

Jim & Mary's RV Park map

Trailer and truck

Coyote Run RV Park in Connell, WA:

Coyote Run RV Park map

Campsite

Back into our coach, our first stop after leaving our homestead was Portland Fairview RV Park in Portland, OR (no blog post, so this is a newly-published picture):

Campsite