2025 travel days

An interesting summary of our RV travel days in 2025. 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 traveled in our coach. Previous years posts are 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021.

You can also see all of these summary posts together via the Travel Summary tag, with the earliest posts at the top, or the latest posts at the top.

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.

Read to the end for some sneak peeks of places we went that I haven’t yet posted about!

Travel from Carrabelle to Dunnellon, Florida:

Toading up at Ho-Hum RV Park

Travel from Dunnellon to Clermont, Florida:

Welcome to Florida's Turnpike, The Less Stressway

Travel from Clermont to Disney World, Florida:

Entering Walt Disney World

Travel from Disney World to Clermont, Florida:

Welcome

Travel from Clermont to Wauchula, Florida:

Paladin on the dash

Travel from Wauchula, Florida to Saint Marys, Georgia:

Thank you for visiting Florida

Travel from Saint Marys, Georgia to Charleston, South Carolina:

Welcome to South Carolina

Travel from Charleston, South Carolina to Wake Forest, North Carolina:

South of the Border

Travel from Wake Forest, North Carolina to Emporia, Virginia:

Welcome to Virginia

Travel from Emporia to Gloucester, Virginia:

Bridge over James River

Travel from Gloucester, Virginia to College Park, Maryland:

Maryland Welcomes You

Travel from College Park, Maryland to Ocean View, New Jersey:

Fort McHenry Tunnel under the Baltimore harbor

Travel from Ocean View, New Jersey to Lebanon, Pennsylvania:

St John the Baptist church

Travel from Lebanon, Pennsylvania to Ravenna, Ohio:

Tunnels

Travel from Ravenna, Ohio to St Clair, Michigan:

Welcome to Pure Michigan

Travel from St Clair to Buckley, Michigan:

Flint Strong

Travel from Buckley, Michigan to Shipshewana, Indiana:

More to Discover in Indiana

Travel from Shipshewana, Indiana to Newbury, Ohio:

Amish

Travel from Newbury, Ohio to Youngstown, New York:

Welcome to Pennsylvania

Travel from Youngstown to Richfield Springs, New York:

Bridge

Travel from Richfield Springs, New York to White River Junction, Vermont:

Welcome to Vermont

Travel from White River Junction, Vermont to Wells, Maine:

Maine state line on Piscataqua River bridge

Travel from Wells to Trenton, Maine:

Service plaza

Travel from Trenton, Maine to Foxboro, Massachusetts:

Massachusetts Welcomes You

Travel from Foxboro, Massachusetts to Plattekill, New York:

East Hartford

Travel from Plattekill, New York to Bellefonte, Pennsylvania:

More patches than road

Travel from Bellefonte to Tarentum, Pennsylvania:

New Bethlehem

Travel from Tarentum, Pennsylvania to Oregonia, Ohio:

Welcome to Ohio

Travel from Oregonia, Ohio to Lebanon, Tennessee:

Entering Central Time Zone

Travel from Lebanon, Tennessee to Scottsburg, Indiana:

Bridges in Louisville

Travel from Scottsburg to Chesterton, Indiana:

Interesting bridge

Travel from Chesterton, Indiana to Moscow, Iowa:

Welcome to Iowa

Travel from Moscow, Iowa to Milton, Wisconsin:

Iowa 80 truck stop

Travel from Milton to Kewaunee, Wisconsin:

Kewaunee

Travel from Kewaunee, Wisconsin to Hancock, Michigan:

Welcome to Pure Michigan

Travel from Hancock, Michigan to Cloquet, Minnesota:

Wisconsin Welcomes You

Travel from Cloquet to Kabetogama, Minnesota:

Saunas

Travel from Kabetogama to Maple Grove, Minnesota:

Paddler

Travel from Maple Grove, Minnesota to Mitchell, South Dakota:

Welcome to South Dakota

Travel from Mitchell to Custer, South Dakota:

Dignity of Earth and Sky

Travel from Custer, South Dakota to Buffalo, Wyoming:

Welcome to Wyoming

Travel from Buffalo to Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming:

Interesting rocks

Travel from Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming to Missoula, Montana:

Madison River

Travel from Missoula, Montana to Ephrata, Washington:

Clark Fork River

Travel from Ephrata to Shelton, Washington:

I-90 West Vantage Bridge

Travel from Shelton, Washington to Fairview, Oregon:

Welcome to Oregon

Travel from Fairview to Eugene, Oregon:

Paladin getting off the dash as we get back on the freeway

Travel from Eugene to Sutherlin, Oregon:

I-5

Travel from Sutherlin, Oregon to Red Bluff, California:

Mount Shasta

Travel from Red Bluff to Paicines, California:

San Luis Reservoir

Travel from Paicines to Bakersfield, California: [post coming later]

San Luis Reservoir

Travel from Bakersfield to Long Beach, California: [post coming later]

Downhill

Travel from Long Beach to Northridge, California: [post coming later]

The Goodyear blimp coming in for a landing

We traveled around New Zealand at this point, but I’ll summarize those sometime after I’ve published the blog posts about them.

Travel from Northridge to Orange, California: [post coming later]

A pickup carrying half a car

Travel from Orange to Palm Desert, California: [post coming later]

Entrance

That’s a lot of travel!

2025 travel route

Let’s look back at our coach travel in 2025. You may also want to check out the travel summaries from 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021.

You can also see all of these summary posts together via the Route Summary tag, with the earliest posts at the top, or the latest posts at the top.

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

When we bought the coach, it only had 5,161 miles on the odometer. In 2021 we drove it about 2,300 miles. In 2022 we drove another 8,772 miles. In 2023 we added 9,945 miles. In 2024 we went much further, 12,248 miles. In 2025 we reversed the upward trend, with “only” 11,524 miles. So we have driven our coach 44,789 miles on our adventures so far, for a grand total of 49,950 on the odometer. (The circumference of the Earth at the equator is 24,901 miles, so we’ve effectively driven it twice around the world!)

One of our goals is to visit every state in the US:

  • In 2021 we stayed in 7 states: Washington, Oregon, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, California, and Arizona.
  • In 2022 we added 5 more: Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas (plus revisited others).
  • In 2023 we visited 11 more new states: North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and Florida, in addition to revisits.
  • In 2024 we stayed in 15 new states: Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.
  • In 2025 we completed the contiguous states, with 10 more: New Jersey, Ohio, Michigan, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.

A total of 48 states. Just two left, Alaska and Hawaii! (We’ve been to Hawaii before, but only count states visited since purchasing our coach.)

We also traveled around New Zealand in a campervan in 2025, but I’ll summarize that in a future post.

Here’s a map of our coach travels and stays in 2025, 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. We started the year in the panhandle of Florida, then the route headed mostly counter-clockwise, with some messy loops in the northeast, finally ending up in California:

Timezones 2025 map

Another variation of the map, with more detail:

Route map 2025

Here’s a slightly out-of-date animated GIF that shows the northeast route, since it’s a bit messy:

Route map 2025

Here’s the route map with the travel in 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021 also displayed in different colors; our 2025 travel in light green, our 2024 travel in orange, our 2023 travel in purple, our 2022 travel in blue, our 2021 coach travel in dark green, and our 2021 Yellowstone rental trailer trip in brown:

Route map for 2021 to 2025

The same map as an animated GIF, adding each year:

2021 to 2025 maps

Here’s a fun variation, showing the 2025 route without the background map:

Route map for 2025 without background

As usual, we revised our route a few times from what we had planned for 2025; here’s an animated GIF that compares what we had originally planned (as shown in last year’s 2025 travel plans post), and what we ended up doing (as above):

2025 maps

Another interesting animated GIF, showing the elevations along our route (also from last year’s 2025 travel plans post); see the elevations and road gradients at the bottom, and a moving dot along the map route showing where those elevations occur (this route has some differences from the latest maps, but I didn’t want to bother redoing the GIF):

Map with elevations

Super flat until we reached the Bighorn mountains and Yellowstone in Wyoming.

Here’s a Google Maps list that shows the places we stayed in 2025.

Fascinating!

Travel from Red Bluff to Paicines, California

We drove our coach 297 miles, about six hours of driving, from Red Bluff to Paicines, California.

We had originally planned to do this in two steps, since we like to aim for about three hours of driving per day. But at our first rest stop we decided we’d prefer to have a single longer drive, since it was mostly on I-5, so arranged to arrive earlier and cancel our original stop for that night.

Here’s a map showing our route, heading south:

Map

An interactive map, with potential stops pinned:

Entering I-5 South:

Entering I-5 South

Hey, hay!

Hey, hay!

Rice field:

Rice field

Our coach on traffic cams:

Our coach on a traffic cam

Our coach on a traffic cam

Swimming pool:

Swimming pool

Swimming pool

Rest area:

Rest area

Woodland bridge:

Woodland bridge

Sacramento River:

Sacramento River

Sacramento:

Sacramento

Paladin touching my foot:

Paladin touching my foot

Aquaduct:

Aquaduct

Fuel stop:

Fuel stop

Fuel stop

Interesting pea soup restaurant:

Interesting pea soup restaurant

San Luis Reservoir:

San Luis Reservoir

Exit to Hollister:

Exit to Hollister

School bus:

School bus

A trailer that didn’t disconnect the water hose and electrical cable; not a great way to travel:

Trailer didn't disconnect water hose and electrical cable

Road to Thousand Trails:

Road to Thousand Trails

Thousand Trails San Benito:

Thousand Trails San Benito

Narrow bridge:

Narrow bridge

Our site:

Our site

Travel from Sutherlin, Oregon to Red Bluff, California

We drove our coach 285 miles, about six hours of driving, from Sutherlin, Oregon to Red Bluff, California.

A long drive, but all on I-5, so pretty easy and familiar.

Here’s a map showing our route, heading south:

Route

An interactive map, with potential stops pinned:

I-5 South:

I-5 South

Rainy:

Rainy

“Slow Down”:

Slow Down

Misty mountains:

Misty mountains

Examples of various solutions for transporting a side-by-side — motorhome towing, toy hauler, and truck camper towing:

Examples of various solutions for transporting a side-by-side

Rest area:

Rest area

Crossover intersection:

Crossover intersection

Fuel stop:

Fuel stop

Me taking a photo of Jenn taking a photo of Paladin:

Jenn taking a photo of Paladin

Jenn’s photo:

Jenn's photo

Southern Oregon hills:

Southern Oregon hills

Southern Oregon hills

Ashland:

Ashland

Southern Oregon hills

“Siskiyou Mountain Summit, elevation 4310 feet, highest elevation on I-5”:

Siskiyou Mountain Summit, elevation 4310 feet, highest elevation on I-5

Hills

“Oregon Thanks You, Come Back Soon”:

Oregon Thanks You, Come Back Soon

“Welcome to California”:

Welcome to California

Agricultural Inspection Station:

Agricultural Inspection Station

Mount Shasta:

Mount Shasta

Mount Shasta

Junk cars in a rest area:

Junk cars in a rest area

Shasta Lake:

Shasta Lake

Shasta Lake

KOA:

KOA

Our site:

Our site

Travel from Eugene to Sutherlin, Oregon

We drove our coach just 68 miles, about one hour of driving, from Eugene to Sutherlin, Oregon.

Here’s a map showing our route, heading south:

Route map

An interactive map, with potential stops pinned:

Leaving Oregon Motorcoach Center:

Oregon Motorcoach Center

Joining I-5 South:

I-5 South

I-5

A nasty parallel-parking rest area with no real space for us:

Rest area

Trees starting to turn:

Trees starting to turn

Arriving at a KOA:

Arriving at KOA

Check in:

Check in

Drive-in movie screen:

Drive-in movie screen

Our site:

Our site

Travel from Fairview to Eugene, Oregon

We drove our coach 133 miles, about two hours of driving, from Fairview to Eugene, Oregon.

Here’s a map showing our route, heading south:

Route

An interactive map, with potential stops pinned:

I-84 West:

I-84 West

Heading to I-205 South:

Heading to I-205 South

Interesting paint job:

Interesting paint job

I-5 South:

I-5 South

Shredded tire on the freeway:

Shredded tire on the freeway

Willamette River:

Willamette River

Rest area:

Rest area

Paladin getting off the dash as we get back on the freeway:

Paladin getting off the dash as we get back on the freeway

Triple trailer:

Triple trailer

Exit to Eugene:

Exit to Eugene

RVs by the river:

RVs by the river

Arriving at the Oregon Motorcoach Center:

Arriving at the Oregon Motorcoach Center