A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 163 miles from San Antonio, Texas to Corpus Christi, Texas.
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Freeways, highways, and other roads as we move the coach from one site to another. Plus cat pics.
Travel from San Antonio to Corpus Christi, Texas
We drove our coach 163 miles, about three hours of driving, from San Antonio, Texas to Corpus Christi, Texas.
The map route, heading southeast:
Leaving the campground, along the mile of dirt road:
A fuel stop; a later one would have been better, but this location was cheaper:
Paladin on the dash; not something we encourage. He was feeling a bit stressed about travel; sometimes he forgets about it:
I-37 south:
Paladin on the dash again:
Fortunately it wasn’t too far to a planned stop for lunch, which gave him time chillax:
I like it when I spot a roadside diner with adequate truck parking:
This was Kuntry Korner cafe in Pleasonton:
Menu:
Breakfast for lunch; not bad, if a little slow:
Back to our coach:
Onramp from the service road to I-37:
Paladin on the back of my chair:
There were several oil refineries near Corpus Christi:
Our exit:
Roadworks:
Buildings on stilts near the water:
Our destination, the KOA:
Check in:
Our coach and truck when checking in at the office upstairs:
Being led to our site:
2023 travel plans
Enough reviewing last year; what’s in store for 2023?
We spent the holidays on the gulf coast in Corpus Christi, Texas. We are now doing a tour of more of Texas, including Austin, Houston, and Dallas. With a side trip to the US Virgin Islands for Jenn’s birthday (and to check off the Virgin Islands National Park) while our coach is being serviced. Then we’ll head back west through New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and California, collecting a few national parks we missed previously, including Death Valley, Yosemite, and Redwoods. We’ll also go to Disneyland again, because why not.
Then we’ll head up the coast in California, Oregon, and Washington, and spend some time at Mom’s place while we take care of doctor visits and such. Then we’ll go east through Washington, Oregon, Idaho, into Wyoming, where we’ll spend some time at Yellowstone, before continuing on to North and South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas, some new states for us.
Following that, a little detour through Colorado and New Mexico to attend the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta again (yes, we recently managed to snag an RV site at the fiesta). Then some more new states: Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and finally we’ll spend next winter in Florida.
This route adds 10 new states towards our goal to visit all of the states.
The stops for this route have been mostly booked already; there are a few holes that don’t have reservations, as some places don’t allow booking this far out, but we’ll book them as soon as we can. And of course we will make changes as needed (and in fact have made some minor tweaks since making these maps, not affecting the route noticeably). But this is a fairly solid plan for the year.
Here is a map showing our proposed route on the states and color-coded time zones:
A more detailed map:
Here’s the same map with the routes and stops for 2021-2022 added; the 2021 Yellowstone trip is in brown, 2021 coach travel in green, 2022 travel in blue, and 2023 travel in purple:
The same map as an animated GIF, adding each year:
It’s going to be another busy year. I hope you’ll follow along via this blog and the YouTube channel.
Video: 2021-2022 motorhome travel timelapses in less than 6 minutes!
Was the 2022 timelapses video not fast enough for you? Hey, I understand; 38 minutes is quite long, even at 20x the original timelapses speed. This video combines both the 2021 and 2022 timelapse videos, and makes them eight times faster (i.e. 160 times faster than original timelapses), so you can see all our motorhome travel in less than six minutes!
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 Desert Hot Springs, California:
To Lake Mead, Boulder City, Nevada:
To Colorado Springs, Colorado:
To Truth or Consequences, New Mexico:
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:
Another variation of the map, with more detail:
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:
Fascinating!
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.
Video: Junction, Texas to San Antonio, Texas motorhome travel timelapse
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 135 miles from Junction, Texas to San Antonio, Texas.
Travel from Junction to San Antonio, Texas
We drove our coach 135 miles, about two hours of driving, from Junction, Texas to San Antonio, Texas.
The map route, heading southeast:
The chickens didn’t want us to go; they roosted on our sewer hose (the feeling was mutual; we could have stayed longer):
Leaving the RV park, past the pecan trees:
Ranch Road:
Steep grade ahead:
I-10:
A stop at a rest area for lunch:
Paladin on the back of the driver chair as we started off again:
But he soon retuned to his safe space next to the passenger chair:
A sign of approaching a big city; a HOV lane appears:
And freeway overpasses:
Exit to I-35 south:
Another exit:
Our destination is appropriately enough on Campground Road:
A rough one-mile dirt road leading to the RV park:
The office:
Paladin on the steps, waiting for Jenn to return from checking in:
Continuing on down the dirt road to our site:
Our site:
