A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 301 miles from Las Cruces, New Mexico to Marathon, Texas. The video starts with a 2x zoom through our coach while the slides come in, for an interesting different perspective, and ends with the truck’s view of getting set up just before a rainy sunset.
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Freeways, highways, and other roads as we move the coach from one site to another. Plus cat pics.
Travel from Las Cruces, New Mexico to Marathon, Texas
We drove our coach 301 miles, about five hours of driving, from Las Cruces, New Mexico to Marathon, Texas.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading southeast:
An interactive map:
Joining I-10 East:
Recycled Roadrunner artwork at a rest stop:
Rio Grande with a little water due to rain (it was dry when we drove past earlier in the week):
Nice mountains beyond Las Cruces:
Leaving New Mexico:
Welcome to Texas:
Looking over the border into Mexico:
Playing El Paso while leaving El Paso:
Fuel stop:
Rainy drive:
Immigration checkpoint:
Entering Central Time Zone:
A long building on a trailer at stop opportunity:
Rainbow:
Sun rays:
A blimp (I think used for watching the border with Mexico), grounded probably due to the lightning storms in the area:
Picnic area stop:
Arriving at Marathon Motel & RV Park:
Our site:
Video: Tucson, Arizona to Las Cruces, New Mexico motorhome travel timelapse
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 258 miles from Tucson, Arizona to Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Travel from Tucson, Arizona to Las Cruces, New Mexico
We drove our coach 258 miles, about four hours of driving, from Tucson, Arizona to Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading east:
An interactive map:
An example of why we don’t use picnic tables at campsites, at least without a tablecloth (but usually not even then): our neighbor was working on his sewer pipe connectors on the table:
Joining I-10 East:
Mountains:
Interesting rocks:
The Thing? travel center (post about the attraction later this week):
We had DQ there for lunch:
The Thing? and other swag:
More interesting rocks:
Rest area:
Paladin sprawled on the dash as we got underway again:
Welcome to New Mexico:
“Zero visibility possible”… yes, anything’s possible:
“Gusty winds may exist”… indeed:
Fun with zoom:
Instructions on what to do if caught in a dust storm (not very readable in this pic, but basically pull onto shoulder, turn off engine, foot off brake, lights off… presumably to save battery power):
Welcome to Las Cruces:
We really enjoy the mountains behind Las Cruces:
Our destination, the Las Cruces KOA Journey:
All decked out for the holidays (in early November):
Video: Winterhaven, California to Tucson, Arizona motorhome travel timelapse
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 260 miles from Winterhaven, California to Tucson, Arizona.
Travel from Winterhaven, California to Tucson, Arizona
We drove our coach 260 miles, about four hours of driving, from Winterhaven, California to Tucson, Arizona.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading east:
An interactive map:
Exiting the RV park:
I-8 East entrance:
Arizona State Line over the Colorado River:
Welcome to Arizona:
Fuel stop:
Closed US Border Patrol Checkpoint:
6% downgrade:
Interesting rocks:
Rest area:
Paladin sat in his dash bed for quite a while while we drove on the freeway:
Then Paladin snuggled with me for a while:
Saguaro cacti:
Parking area:
Cotton field:
I-8 joined I-10:
Very large dump truck part:
Interesting rocks:
Sun rays:
Arrival:
Check in area (the gate guy said someone would come to us with the paperwork, but after waiting for 10 minutes someone told us that he was wrong, we needed to go into the hotel reception to check in):
Double rainbow:
Rainbow from our site:
Video: Palm Desert to Winterhaven, California motorhome travel timelapse
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 142 miles from Palm Desert to Winterhaven, California.
Travel from Palm Desert to Winterhaven, California
We drove our coach 142 miles, about three hours of driving, from Palm Desert, California to Winterhaven, California.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading southeast:
An interactive map:
Departing Thousand Trails Palm Springs, with Paladin on the dash, and our tag ready to hand in at the gate:
Passing a recumbent bike:
Joining I-10 East:
Salton Sea:
Fuel stop at Love’s; we only added a bit of fuel to reduce range anxiety, since it will be much cheaper once we leave California:
Lots of parking available; we went in to have Subway sandwiches for lunch:
Paladin on the dash when we got back:
Later, while underway, Paladin in his safe space, with a sunbeam:
I-8 East:
Passing by the border wall for Mexico:
Sand dunes and canal:
Boondockers and their dune buggies:
Passing by our destination, accessed via a side road from the next exit:
Entrance to our destination:
Our site:
Video: Orange to Palm Desert, California motorhome travel timelapse
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 103 miles from Orange, California to Palm Desert, California.
Travel from Orange to Palm Desert, California
We drove our coach 103 miles, about two hours of driving, from Orange, California to Palm Desert, California.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading east; the start of our eastward migration for 2024, heading from California to Florida:
An interactive map:
Leaving the RV park:
Getting on CA-55 North:
Marine layer:
Hills:
Ah I-10, our old friend; one of the worst quality freeways in the country:
Cabazon Dinosaurs (which we visited a couple of years ago):
Rest area, where we had an early lunch to kill some time, as we were too early for check-in:
Paladin on the dash when getting back on the freeway (he jumped down moments later):
Desert Hot Springs and Palm Springs overpass:
Our destination, the Thousand Trails Palm Springs entrance:
Check in:
Paladin on the dash going to our site:
