A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 129 miles from Bakersfield to Long Beach, California.
travel
Freeways, highways, and other roads as we move the coach from one site to another. Plus cat pics.
Travel from Bakersfield to Long Beach, California
We drove our coach 129 miles, about three hours of driving, from Bakersfield to Long Beach, California.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading south:
An interactive map, with potential stops pinned:
Leaving the KOA:
Always nice to see a Dutch Bros:
CA-99 freeway entrance:
Very California: bare hills, big pipes, grapes, and a pump jack:
Truck bypass:
The Petro was a fuel stop option, but we didn’t need it:
I’m sure there are hills up there somewhere:
Ah, there they are:
Rest area:
Watch out birbs!
A dump station at the rest area:
Tejon Pass, elevation 4144 feet:
Lake Hughes:
Downhill:
Truck bypass:
Exit to Santa Monica:
Playing Weezer’s Beverly Hills when approaching Beverly Hills:
Playing Everclear’s Santa Monica in Santa Monica’s unclear traffic:
Exit to Long Beach:
Los Angeles River, actually with water in it near the coast:
Long Beach:
Arriving at Golden Shore RV Resort:
Driving to our site:
Our site:
Video: Paicines to Bakersfield, California motorhome travel timelapse
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 225 miles from Paicines to Bakersfield, California.
Travel from Paicines to Bakersfield, California
Back to our regular posts….
We drove our coach 225 miles, about five hours of driving, from Paicines to Bakersfield, California.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading southeast:
An interactive map, with potential stops pinned:
Didn’t see any of the wild pigs:
Narrow bridge in the campground:
Tres Pinos:
San Luis Reservoir:
Petro lunch stop:
BK for lunch:
Joining I-5 South:
Closed rest area:
Next one was open, though:
Classic BMWs:
Exit to Bakersfield:
Bakersfield Auto Mall:
Arriving at the KOA:
KOA check in:
Guided to our site:
2026 travel plans
I hope you enjoyed the posts reviewing 2025. So what are our plans for 2026? Read on!
This year will be a bit different: we’ll be staying in one place for longer than we have since starting the RV lifestyle, then will do a trip through Canada to Alaska and back, followed by a cruise to a different part of Alaska.
In previous years, we spent one, two, or occasionally three weeks at each location, or only staying one or two nights if we were “sprinting” across the country. But now we are spending the first three months of the year in one place, in Phoenix, Arizona. For several reasons: to spend winter in a sunny warm area, to attend baseball spring training games, and for a change of pace.
In April, we will head over to Los Angeles, California, then “sprint” up the west coast to our home base in Shelton, Washington, where we’ll stay for about seven weeks — also longer than usual.
In June, we’ll head north through Canada to Alaska, where we’ll knock off our penultimate state, and seven of the eight National Parks — driving to two, a couple of flying day-trips to four parks, and taking a boat day-trip to one. Plus of course lots of other sightseeing, while continuing to work (yay for Starlink!). We’ll head south through Canada again towards the end of August, arriving home early September.
Astute readers will notice that I said we’d miss one of Alaska’s National Parks; that’s because one of them (Glacier Bay NP) can’t be easily reached from our travel route. There’s no road there, and would require both a plane and boat to reach (and an overnight stay). We read that the usual way to access it is via a cruise ship… so we decided why not, let’s go on a 7-night Alaska cruise a couple of weeks after getting back from our RV trip! That’ll be a fun experience; our second-ever cruise ship (the first was a very different 4-night cruise to Mexico in 2010).
That takes us to around the end of September. After that, we’ll probably head south again to spend the winter somewhere warm… probably with another Disneyland visit (since we’re Magic Key holders until November), and maybe back to Arizona again, or perhaps somewhere in California, Texas, or even Florida; we haven’t planned that far ahead yet.
A lot of this is still very tentative; we’ve currently booked some key campgrounds in Alaska, plus the National Park excursions and the cruise. But we haven’t yet booked stops along the way.
It’s a long way to Alaska, but this route should be a little shorter than last year, at around 10,000 miles total, depending on where we finish up for the year.
Here’s a map that shows the country and state outlines, colored time zones, our travel route, and pins for stops. Our route begins in Phoenix, heads north up the west coast, through Canada on the eastern route on the map (the Alcan Highway), up to Fairbanks at the northernmost point of our route in Alaska, then south to Seward, Homer, and Valdez, before returning through Canada on the western mapped route (the Cassiar Highway), and back home to Shelton, Washington. The map doesn’t show plans beyond that, but might be retracing our steps back to Phoenix or similar.
Another variation of the map, that shows a little more detail, but the borders are less visible:
And here’s the route of the cruise ship:
It’s going to be another busy year. I hope you’ll follow along via this blog and the YouTube channel.
Video: 2021-2025 motorhome travel timelapses in about a minute!
Yesterday I posted a 23 minute video with all of our motorhome travel from 2021 to 2025. But who has time for a 23 minute video? For total ridiculousness, here’s the same video sped up 20 times (with different music, to avoid chipmunk squeals), taking about one minute.
Video: 2021-2025 motorhome travel timelapses in 23 minutes!
Was the 2025 timelapses video not fast enough for you? Hey, I understand; 45 minutes is quite long, even at 20x the original timelapses speed.
This video combines the 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 timelapse videos, and makes them eight times faster (i.e. 160 times faster than original timelapses), so you can see about 45k miles of motorhome travel in about 23 minutes!
Chapters:
00:00 2021 travel
00:52 2022 travel
05:41 2023 travel
10:44 2024 travel
17:13 2025 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: 2025 motorhome travel timelapses
See a summary of driving our Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome throughout 2025!
This combines all of the motorhome travel timelapses for 2025 into one video, at 20x the speed of the original timelapse videos.
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:
Travel from Dunnellon to Clermont, Florida:
Travel from Clermont to Disney World, Florida:
Travel from Disney World to Clermont, Florida:
Travel from Clermont to Wauchula, Florida:
Travel from Wauchula, Florida to Saint Marys, Georgia:
Travel from Saint Marys, Georgia to Charleston, South Carolina:
Travel from Charleston, South Carolina to Wake Forest, North Carolina:
Travel from Wake Forest, North Carolina to Emporia, Virginia:
Travel from Emporia to Gloucester, Virginia:
Travel from Gloucester, Virginia to College Park, Maryland:
Travel from College Park, Maryland to Ocean View, New Jersey:
Travel from Ocean View, New Jersey to Lebanon, Pennsylvania:
Travel from Lebanon, Pennsylvania to Ravenna, Ohio:
Travel from Ravenna, Ohio to St Clair, Michigan:
Travel from St Clair to Buckley, Michigan:
Travel from Buckley, Michigan to Shipshewana, Indiana:
Travel from Shipshewana, Indiana to Newbury, Ohio:
Travel from Newbury, Ohio to Youngstown, New York:
Travel from Youngstown to Richfield Springs, New York:
Travel from Richfield Springs, New York to White River Junction, Vermont:
Travel from White River Junction, Vermont to Wells, Maine:
Travel from Wells to Trenton, Maine:
Travel from Trenton, Maine to Foxboro, Massachusetts:
Travel from Foxboro, Massachusetts to Plattekill, New York:
Travel from Plattekill, New York to Bellefonte, Pennsylvania:
Travel from Bellefonte to Tarentum, Pennsylvania:
Travel from Tarentum, Pennsylvania to Oregonia, Ohio:
Travel from Oregonia, Ohio to Lebanon, Tennessee:
Travel from Lebanon, Tennessee to Scottsburg, Indiana:
Travel from Scottsburg to Chesterton, Indiana:
Travel from Chesterton, Indiana to Moscow, Iowa:
Travel from Moscow, Iowa to Milton, Wisconsin:
Travel from Milton to Kewaunee, Wisconsin:
Travel from Kewaunee, Wisconsin to Hancock, Michigan:
Travel from Hancock, Michigan to Cloquet, Minnesota:
Travel from Cloquet to Kabetogama, Minnesota:
Travel from Kabetogama 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 Buffalo, Wyoming:
Travel from Buffalo to Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming:
Travel from Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming to Missoula, Montana:
Travel from Missoula, Montana to Ephrata, Washington:
Travel from Ephrata to Shelton, Washington:
Travel from Shelton, Washington to Fairview, Oregon:
Travel from Fairview to Eugene, Oregon:
Travel from Eugene to Sutherlin, Oregon:
Travel from Sutherlin, Oregon to Red Bluff, California:
Travel from Red Bluff to Paicines, California:
Travel from Paicines to Bakersfield, California: [post coming later]
Travel from Bakersfield to Long Beach, California: [post coming later]
Travel from Long Beach to Northridge, California: [post coming later]
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]
Travel from Orange to Palm Desert, California: [post coming later]
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:
Another variation of the map, with more detail:
Here’s a slightly out-of-date animated GIF that shows the northeast route, since it’s a bit messy:
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:
The same map as an animated GIF, adding each year:
Here’s a fun variation, showing the 2025 route without the background map:
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):
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):
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!