Was the 2023 timelapses video not fast enough for you? Hey, I understand; 40 minutes is quite long, even at 20x the original timelapses speed. This video combines the 2021, 2022, and 2023 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 10 minutes!
travel
Freeways, highways, and other roads as we move the coach from one site to another. Plus cat pics.
Video: 2023 motorhome travel timelapses
See a summary of driving our Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome throughout 2023!
This combines all of the motorhome travel timelapses for 2023 into one video, at 20x the speed of the original timelapse videos.
2023 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.
Read to the end for some sneak peeks of places we went that I haven’t yet posted about!
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 from Corpus Christi to Lockhart, Texas:
Travel from Lockhart to Columbus, Texas:
Travel from Columbus to Lake Conroe, Texas:
Travel from Lake Conroe to Lake Whitney, Texas:
Travel from Lake Whitney to Dallas, Texas:
Travel days to US Virgin Islands:
Travel from NIRVC in Dallas to Gordonville, Texas:
Travel from Gordonville to Abilene, Texas:
Travel from Abilene, Texas to Las Cruces, New Mexico:
Travel from Las Cruces, New Mexico to Tombstone, Arizona:
Travel from Tombstone to Surprise, Arizona:
Travel from Surprise to Kingman, Arizona:
Travel from Kingman, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada:
Travel from Las Vegas, Nevada to Death Valley, California:
Travel from Death Valley to Yermo, California:
Travel from Yermo to Palm Desert, California:
Travel from Palm Desert to Orange, California:
Travel from Orange to San Diego, California:
Travel from San Diego to Bakersfield, California:
Travel from Bakersfield to Paso Robles, California:
Travel from Paso Robles to Petaluma, California:
Travel from Petaluma to Meyers Flat, California:
Travel from Meyers Flat to Crescent City, California:
Travel from Crescent City, California to Florence, Oregon:
Travel from Florence to Eugene, Oregon:
Travel from Eugene to South Beach, Oregon:
Travel from South Beach to Seaside, Oregon:
Travel from Seaside, Oregon to Ocean City, Washington:
Travel from Ocean City to Shelton, Washington:
Travel from Shelton, Washington to Buxton, Oregon:
Travel from Buxton to Welches, Oregon:
Travel from Welches to La Grande, Oregon:
Travel from La Grande, Oregon to Glenns Ferry, Idaho:
Travel from Glenns Ferry, Idaho to Alpine, Wyoming:
Travel from Alpine to Yellowstone, Wyoming:
Travel from Yellowstone to Cody, Wyoming:
Travel from Cody to Buffalo, Wyoming:
Travel from Buffalo to Devils Tower, Wyoming:
Travel from Devils Tower, Wyoming to Medora, North Dakota:
Travel from Medora, North Dakota to Spearfish, South Dakota:
Travel from Spearfish to Badlands, South Dakota:
Travel from Badlands to Hot Springs, South Dakota:
Travel from Hot Springs, South Dakota to Ogallala, Nebraska:
Travel from Ogallala, Nebraska to Scott City, Kansas:
Travel from Scott City, Kansas to Guymon, Oklahoma:
Travel from Guymon, Oklahoma to Tucumcari, New Mexico:
Travel from Tucumcari to Albuquerque, New Mexico:
Travel from Albuquerque to Santa Rosa, New Mexico:
Towed from Santa Rosa to Moriarty, New Mexico:
Travel from Moriarty to Tucumcari, New Mexico:
Travel from Tucumcari, New Mexico to Amarillo, Texas:
Travel from Amarillo, Texas to Choctaw, Oklahoma:
Travel from Choctaw, Oklahoma to Russellville, Arkansas (post coming in January):
Travel from Russellville to Hot Springs, Arkansas (post coming in January):
Travel from Hot Springs, Arkansas to Memphis, Tennessee (post coming in January):
Travel from Memphis, Tennessee to Red Bay, Alabama (post coming in January):
Travel from Red Bay, Alabama to Toomsuba, Mississippi (post coming in February):
Travel from Toomsuba, Mississippi to New Orleans, Louisiana (post coming in February):
Travel from New Orleans, Louisiana to Spanish Fort, Alabama (post coming in February):
Travel from Spanish Fort, Alabama to Carrabelle, Florida (post coming in February):
That’s a lot of travel!
2023 travel route
Let’s look back at our coach travel in 2023. You may also want to check out the 2022 travel summary and the 2021 travel summary.
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 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, so have driven it 21,017 miles on our adventures so far, for a grand total of 26,178 on the odometer.
One of our goals is to visit every state in the US. In 2023 we stayed in 11 new states: North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and Florida. These join Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas in 2022, and Washington, Oregon, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, California, and Arizona in 2021, for a total of 23. Not quite halfway! (We only count states visited since purchasing our coach.)
We also revisited several states last year, as we headed back to our Pacific Northwest domicile. So all the states we visited in 2023 — in order — were Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and Florida; a total of 20 in the year.
Here’s a map of our coach travels and stays in 2023, 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 southern Texas, then the route headed north then west to the California coast, north to Washington, east to North Dakota, south to New Mexico (a detour for the Balloon Fiesta), then east to Alabama (barely), south to Louisiana, and finally east to the panhandle of Florida, where we finished the year:
Another variation of the map, with more detail:
Here’s the route map with the travel in 2022 and 2021 also displayed in different colors; our 2023 travel in purple, our 2022 travel in blue, our 2021 coach travel in green, and our 2021 Yellowstone rental trailer trip in brown:
The same map as an animated GIF, adding each year:
We actually revised our route a few times from what we planned for 2023; here’s an animated GIF that compares what we had originally planned (as shown in last year’s 2023 travel plans post), and what we ended up doing (as above):
Fascinating!
Video: Amarillo, Texas to Choctaw, Oklahoma motorhome travel timelapse
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 284 miles from Amarillo, Texas to Choctaw, Oklahoma.
Travel from Amarillo, Texas to Choctaw, Oklahoma
We drove our coach 284 miles, about 4 hours of driving, from Amarillo, Texas to Choctaw, Oklahoma.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading east:
An interactive map:
Departing the RV park:
Texas likes to have frontage roads with onramps to freeways, which is actually a good system:
I-40:
Cadillac Ranch:
RV Ranch:
Amarillo overpass, with boots in the name:
The Big Texan Steak Ranch:
VW Slug Bug Ranch:
Big cross:
Leaning water tower of Texas:
Old building:
Wind turbines in a row:
Rest area:
The rest area on the other side of the freeway had an underground shelter:
Cotton field:
Welcome to Oklahoma:
Dinosaur:
Our coach at the rest area:
Elk City:
Fun with zoom:
A stop at Cherokee Trading Post:
Super-relaxed Paladin:
Oklahoma City:
Interesting bridge art:
Interesting building:
Air Force One:
Air Force water towers:
Our destination, the KOA entrance:
Koi pond:
Guided to our site:
Video: Tucumcari, New Mexico to Amarillo, Texas motorhome travel timelapse
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 99 miles from Tucumcari, New Mexico to Amarillo, Texas.
Travel from Tucumcari, New Mexico to Amarillo, Texas
We drove our coach 99 miles, about 2 hours of driving, from Tucumcari, New Mexico to Amarillo, Texas.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading east:
An interactive map:
Leaving the campground (and taking out the trash):
Heading to I-40 east:
I-40:
Leaving New Mexico:
Texas state line:
Entering Central Time Zone:
Welcome to Texas:
Rest stop:
Fuel stop:
$321 of diesel:
Roadworks blocked our access to the campground; we had to detour through the Loves truck stop:
And duck between cones:
Our destination:
Oasis RV:
Our site:
Video: Moriarty to Tucumcari, New Mexico motorhome travel timelapse
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 139 miles from Moriarty, New Mexico to Tucumcari, New Mexico. A rare night drive!
Travel from Moriarty to Tucumcari, New Mexico
We drove our coach 139 miles, about 3 hours of driving, from Moriarty, New Mexico to Tucumcari, New Mexico.
A rare nighttime drive! Our coach was finished being fixed at the end of the day; we could have stayed overnight again, but we were keen to get back on schedule. So we decided to head out, even though we normally avoid driving at night. It helped that we were familiar with the route, having done it (both ways) recently, plus were familiar with the destination RV park, since we stayed there on the way to Albuquerque.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading east:
An interactive map:
On the road again, back along I-40:
Not sure what that truck on the left is hauling:
Clines Corners truck stop:
Flying C Ranch billboards:
We stopped at Flying C Ranch again:
Sunset:
Lots of swag:
DQ for dinner:
Back to our coach:
Sunset reflected in our coach, plus a sliver of moon:
Driving in dusk:
The cameras weren’t overly useful when driving in the dark:
Going past the rest area where we were stuck for a couple of days:
Arriving at the KOA:
Paladin on the passenger chair:
In our site:
