A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 346 miles from Galveston, Texas to Springfield, Louisiana.
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Freeways, highways, and other roads as we move the coach from one site to another. Plus cat pics.
Travel from Galveston, Texas to Springfield, Louisiana
We drove our coach 346 miles, about six hours of driving, from Galveston, Texas to Springfield, Louisiana.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading east:
An interactive map:
Following our coach to the dump station, where we toaded up:
Galveston Island coast:
Galveston Island sign:
Super scenic refinery:
Fred Hartman Bridge by Galveston Bay:
Entering I-10 East:
Rest area:
Back to I-10, with Paladin on the dash:
Entering Louisiana:
Another rest area:
Paladin in his tower box laying on the bed:
Food trucks:
Overturned big rig, probably going too fast in the rain:
Paladin asleep:
Rain:
Yet another rest area:
Bridge over the Mississippi River; it always feels like a momentous milestone to cross this river, the divider between the more spacious west side of the country, and the crowded east side:
A truck with a blown tire:
Large crest on the road in the turn towards the park:
Narrow road to the park:
Free-range chickens and ducks:
Arriving at Tickfaw State Park:
Arriving at our site:
Video: San Antonio to Galveston, Texas motorhome travel timelapse
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 249 miles from San Antonio to Galveston, Texas.
Travel from San Antonio to Galveston, Texas
We drove our coach 249 miles, about four hours of driving, from San Antonio, Texas to Galveston, Texas.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading east:
An interactive map:
Paladin on the dash while leaving the RV park:
Frontage road to I-10 East:
Buc-ees:
I was amused by the name Flatonia, approapriate for Texas:
Motorhome and T@B trailer:
Rest area:
Several vehicles cutting across from the freeway to a frontage road to avoid traffic… which didn’t really work out for them, as the freeway traffic eased up after roadworks, and there wasn’t an entrance back onto the freeway for a while:
Roadworks:
A rather interesting name caught my eye on the map: “Mario’s Flying Pizza Airport”:
The GPS was going insane, thinking we were not on the freeway:
Multiple overpasses outside Houston:
Evil-looking building in Houston:
Downtown Houston:
Bridge to Galveston Island:
Reached the gulf coast:
Creepy-looking clouds:
Galveston Island State Park entrance:
Entrance station:
Our site:
Our coach arriving at our site:
2025 travel plans
I hope you enjoyed the posts reviewing 2024. So what are our plans for 2025? Read on!
Like the previous year, we spent the holidays in the panhandle of Florida, in Carrabelle, then headed south in Florida. This time, though, we’ll be spending six weeks in Orlando, including a week in the Disney World bubble. (Unusual for us; we typically don’t stay in one place for more than two weeks, very rarely three weeks.) We won’t be going as far south as the Keys this year; instead we’ll head north, revisiting Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Maryland, reaching the first new state of the year, New Jersey.
We’ll then head northwest via Pennsylvania to new states Ohio and Michigan for a graduation and time with friends, before heading east again, adding upstate New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine, then back west to add Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, and continuing back to Ohio. That loop through the northeast states is a bit confusing; see an animated GIF below that hopefully clarifies that part. We would normally try to avoid backtracking, but the timing of the graduation dictated the route. We spread out the route to see different areas going there and back, so it’s all good.
After that, we head north to another part of Michigan, then back west via our favorite Black Hills area and Yellowstone National Park, reaching our home base in Washington state for the usual adulting and family time.
Finally, we’ll be heading south next winter, as usual for us snowbirds. But a little different this time: we’ll leave our coach at NIRVC in Phoenix while we travel to New Zealand for three weeks (probably), then finish the year in Arizona and California.
A lot of this is still tentative; we’ve currently booked up to the beginning of September. And we will try to change some of the stops to free alternatives (using our Thousand Trails membership) when they’re available to book.
All up, we should visit 10 new states in the northeast, so by the end of the year (actually by the middle of the year) we will have visited all 48 contiguous states, with just Alaska and Hawaii remaining. We’ll visit those two in a subsequent year (to be determined).
This route should be a little shorter than last year, at around 10,800 miles, give or take.
Here’s a map that shows the state outlines, colored time zones, our travel route, and pins for stops. Our route begins in the panhandle of Florida, and goes generally anti-clockwise, with a loop in the northeast:
Another variation of the map, that shows a little more detail, but the states are less visible:
That northeast corner looks a bit messy, doesn’t it? Here’s an animated GIF that shows the route:
Another interesting animated GIF, showing the elevations along our route; 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 a couple of minor differences from the above maps, but I didn’t want to bother redoing the GIF):
Super flat until we reach the Bighorn mountains and Yellowstone in Wyoming.
Here’s a Google Maps list that shows the places we’ll stay, as of now; it will be updated as campgrounds are booked.
It’s going to be another busy year. I hope you’ll follow along via this blog and the YouTube channel.
Video: 2021-2024 motorhome travel timelapses in less than a minute!
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.
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.
Video: 2024 motorhome travel timelapses
See a summary of driving our Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome throughout 2024!
This combines all of the motorhome travel timelapses for 2024 into one video, at 20x the speed of the original timelapse videos.
2024 travel days
I thought it’d be interesting and useful to include a summary of travel days in 2024. 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. Previous years posts are 2023, 2022, and 2021.
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 Carrabelle to Clermont, Florida:
Travel from Clermont to Homestead, Florida:
Travel from Homestead to Sugarloaf Key, Florida:
Travel from Sugarloaf Key to Ohio Key, Florida:
Travel from Ohio Key to Fort Lauderdale, Florida:
Travel from Fort Lauderdale to Disney World, Florida:
Travel from Disney World to Clermont, Florida:
Travel from Clermont, Florida to Adel, Georgia:
Travel from Adel to Pine Mountain, Georgia:
Travel from Pine Mountain, Georgia to Red Bay, Alabama:
Travel from Red Bay, Alabama to Scott, Arkansas:
Travel from Scott, Arkansas to Texarkana, Texas:
Travel from Texarkana to Paris, Texas:
Travel from Paris, Texas to Scott, Arkansas:
Travel from Scott, Arkansas to Red Bay, Alabama:
Travel from Red Bay, Alabama to Rutledge, Georgia:
Travel from Rutledge, Georgia to Columbia, South Carolina:
Travel from Columbia to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina:
Travel from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina to Chocowinity, North Carolina:
Travel from Chocowinity, North Carolina to Cape Charles, Virginia:
Travel from Cape Charles, Virginia to Georgetown, Delaware:
Travel from Georgetown, Delaware to Manassas, Virginia:
Travel from Manassas, Virginia to Hanover, Pennsylvania:
Travel from Hanover, Pennsylvania to College Park, Maryland:
Travel from College Park, Maryland to Beaver, West Virginia:
Travel from Beaver, West Virginia to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee:
Travel from Pigeon Forge, Tennessee to Park City, Kentucky:
Travel from Park City, Kentucky to Elberfeld, Indiana:
Travel from Elberfeld, Indiana to Sullivan, Missouri:
Travel from Sullivan, Missouri to Rochester, Illinois:
Travel from Rochester, Illinois to Cascade, Iowa:
Travel from Cascade, Iowa to Oakdale, Wisconsin:
Travel from Oakdale, Wisconsin to Maple Grove, Minnesota:
Travel from Maple Grove, Minnesota to Mitchell, South Dakota:
Travel from Mitchell to Custer, South Dakota:
Travel from Custer, South Dakota to Hardin, Montana:
Travel from Hardin to Missoula, Montana:
Travel from Missoula, Montana to Quincy, Washington:
Travel from Quincy to Shelton, Washington:
Travel from Shelton, Washington to Welches, Oregon:
Travel from Welches, Oregon to Ashland, Oregon:
Travel from Ashland, Oregon to Red Bluff, California:
Travel from Red Bluff to Manteca, California:
Travel from Manteca to Groveland, California:
Travel from Groveland to Dunlap, California:
Travel from Dunlap to Acton, California:
Travel from Acton to Orange, California:
Travel from Orange to Palm Desert, California:
Travel from Palm Desert to Winterhaven, California:
Travel from Winterhaven, California to Tucson, Arizona:
Travel from Tucson, Arizona to Las Cruces, New Mexico:
Travel from Las Cruces, New Mexico to Marathon, Texas:
Travel from Marathon to San Antonio, Texas:
Travel from San Antonio to Galveston, Texas:
Travel from Galveston, Texas to Springfield, Louisiana:
Travel from Springfield, Louisiana to Lena, Mississippi:
Travel from Lena, Mississippi to Red Bay, Alabama:
Travel from Red Bay to Ozark, Alabama:
Travel from Ozark, Alabama to Carrabelle, Florida:
That’s a lot of travel!
2024 travel route
Let’s look back at our coach travel in 2024. You may also want to check out the 2023 travel summary, 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. In 2024 we added 12,248, so have driven it 33,265 miles on our adventures so far, for a grand total of 38,426 on the odometer. (The circumference of the Earth at the equator is 24,901 miles, so we’ve effectively driven it 1.3 times around the world!)
One of our goals is to visit every state in the US. 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. These join North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and Florida in 2023, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas in 2022, and Washington, Oregon, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, California, and Arizona in 2021, for a total of 38. Just 12 left! (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 2024 — in order — were Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Texas, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Louisiana, and Mississippi; a total of 29 in the year.
Here’s a map of our coach travels and stays in 2024, 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 south to the Florida Keys, then north and west to Paris, Texas for the total solar eclipse, then to the east coast and up to Delaware, then all the way across to the west coast, south, then back east, ending the year exactly where we started, in the panhandle of Florida:
Another variation of the map, with more detail:
Here’s the route map with the travel in 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021 also displayed in different colors; our 2024 travel in orange, 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:
Here’s a fun variation, showing the 2024 route without the background map; you can clearly see the shape of the country (other than the northeast, that we didn’t get to):
We actually revised our route a few times from what we planned for 2024; here’s an animated GIF that compares what we had originally planned (as shown in last year’s 2024 travel plans post), and what we ended up doing (as above):
Another interesting animated GIF, showing the elevations along our route; see the elevation and gradient at the bottom, and a moving dot along the map route showing where those elevations occurred. You can really see where the mountain ranges are:
Fascinating!