A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 165 miles from Guymon, Oklahoma to Tucumcari, New Mexico, with a picture-in-picture of the view from the truck being towed behind our coach.
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Freeways, highways, and other roads as we move the coach from one site to another. Plus cat pics.
Travel from Guymon, Oklahoma to Tucumcari, New Mexico
We drove our coach 165 miles, about 3 hours of driving, from Guymon, Oklahoma to Tucumcari, New Mexico.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading southwest:
An interactive map:
The drive-in screen as we depart the RV park:
Oversize load:
Welcome to Texas:
A very long train:
Big cowboy:
We stopped at a basic rest area for a bathroom break:
Seeing triple; three seemingly identical tractors driving down the road:
Railway crossing:
A mural in Dalhart:
Tatty Texas flag:
Dalhart:
We passed several feed lots; miles of smelly cattle:
I thought this was a clever idea: the start of a passing lane is marked with a dotted line, encouraging people to move right. More places should do this:
More farm equipment:
Long straght road:
Fun with the phone zoom, making it look like we’re about to drive off a cliff:
We stopped for lunch at a picnic area; “watch for rattlesnakes”:
Paladin was enjoying a box:
A rail bridge by the picnic area:
Our coach:
I got out to plug the 360 camera into a battery pack, since it was about to run out of power:
(On the passenger seat in that picture you can see stuff used for hooking up the truck to the coach.)
More fun with zoom:
Entering Mountain time zone:
We were in Mountain time, then had a couple of weeks in Central time, and now back to Mountain for a week, before returning to Central until the end of the year, when we’ll enter Eastern. Such fun.
Welcome to New Mexico, our third state today:
Nara Vista, a rather run-down town:
Bard, ditto:
Paladin asleep in his safe spot:
Lots of long straight roads on this trip:
More fun with zoom:
Canadian River?!
Tucumcari Mountain, the inspiration for Radiator Cap mountain in the Cars movie:
Our destination:
Our site:
Video: Scott City, Kansas to Guymon, Oklahoma motorhome travel timelapse
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 163 miles from Scott City, Kansas to Guymon, Oklahoma, with some additional footage from my 360 camera, mounted on the truck being towed behind our coach.
Travel from Scott City, Kansas to Guymon, Oklahoma
We drove our coach 163 miles, about 3 hours of driving, from Scott City, Kansas to Guymon, Oklahoma.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading south:
An interactive map:
Our coach by the lake, before hooking up our truck:
Toaded:
We stopped by the dumpsters to take out the trash on the way out:
Departing the park:
Paladin in his safe space next to the passenger chair:
Scott City:
A clever idea to use the water tower as a cell tower:
There were lots of oversize load trucks on this route, including several with really long wind turbine blades:
And other things:
A brief bathroom stop (using the bathroom in our coach, of course):
More wind turbine blades and farm equipment:
Presumably a radar sphere:
Another one:
A lunch stop at a Subway at a gas station:
Another oversize load:
Paladin in his safe spot:
A pedestrian bridge in the ironically named Liberal, Kansas:
Oklahoma state line, and some roadworks:
Oklahoma sign:
This water tower reminded me of the famous Warner Bros one:
Hooker, Oklahoma (the Wikipedia article says the motto is “It’s a location, not a vocation”):
Half the main road through town closed for roadworks:
Our destination:
Travel from Ogallala, Nebraska to Scott City, Kansas
We drove our coach 209 miles, about 4 hours of driving, from Ogallala, Nebraska to Scott City, Kansas.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading south:
An interactive map, with potential stops:
Sunrise:
Leaving the campground:
Spaceship water tower across the highway:
Lots of fields of corn:
Old car store:
Silos:
Not sure what this was? Perhaps for grain loading?
Tractor:
Paladin asleep:
Truck with hay bales:
More silos:
We stopped in a large gravel area at this gas station for a bathroom break:
Zoomed highway:
Welcome to Kansas:
Zoomed view of the highway, emphasizing some big dips:
Paladin mostly asleep:
Fuel and lunch stop:
Almost 90 gallons for $412; we saved $47 on this fuel up via our Open Roads discount card:
We then parked:
And had some tasty IHOP breakfasts for lunch:
An unusual thing; the napkin-wrapped silverware came with a straw; haven’t seen that before:
Paladin asleep again:
Cornfield and pump jack; two great tastes that taste great together:
Paladin asleep yet again:
Wind turbine blade:
Large farm equipment:
Lake Scott State Park:
Our site:
Travel from Hot Springs, South Dakota to Ogallala, Nebraska
We drove our coach 232 miles, about 4 hours of driving, from Hot Springs, South Dakota to Ogallala, Nebraska.
Here’s the map route, heading southeast:
An interactive map, with potential stops:
A rabbit watched me pack up:
A stream of water from slide topper as we brought in the slides, from the rain we had during our stay:
Leaving the campground:
Hot Springs:
US-385:
A bridge over a river:
Rail crossing:
Entering Nebraska:
A seemingly endless long straight highway:
Zoomed view:
Another rail crossing:
A lunch stop; we took up several parking spots in the back of the parking lot:
Hay trailer:
So many fields of corn:
US-385 highway disappearing into the distance:
We paused for a bathroom break in an empty weigh station lane:
Another zoomed perspective:
Jail and Courthouse Rocks:
Paladin asleep:
Broadwater:
Silo:
My gosh, it’s Oshkosh (but not the famous one):
Long coal train:
Oh look, more corn. So much corn:
Another hay trailer:
Not your ordinary town!
Welcome to Ogallala:
We were going to fuel here, but most of the lanes were closed, with a huge line, so we bailed:
Our destinaton:
Guided to our site:
Video: Badlands to Hot Springs, South Dakota motorhome travel timelapse
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 132 miles from Badlands, South Dakota to Hot Springs, South Dakota. With a fun picture-in-picture of the view from our truck being towed behind our coach.
Travel from Badlands to Hot Springs, South Dakota
We drove our coach 132 miles, about 2 hours of driving, from Badlands, South Dakota to Hot Springs, South Dakota.
Here’s the map route, heading west then south:
An interactive map:
As mentioned yesterday, I added a mount for my 360 camera to the truck; it’s a magnetic mount, but I also secured it with three tethers, out of an abundance of caution:
The camera mounted on the truck; I thought it would be fun to record the view from the truck on travel day:
The truck connected to the coach (aka toaded); ready to go:
After leaving the campground, crossing White River:
Badlands:
Cowboy Corner in Interior, South Dakota:
Badlands:
A prairie dog town:
Bison:
Roadworks:
I caught a stowaway wasp:
Leaving Badlands National Park; the Badlands was good:
The roads were not so good (using my max-zoom technique to show the bumps):
Big sunflower field going to seed:
Dinosaur:
Travel center lunch stop:
The camera was still there (I took it inside to secure and charge it during our lunch stop; check out today’s travel video for the fun footage):
Questionable food choices:
Onward:
The Mammoth Site:
The city of Hot Springs has some nice historic architecture:
Our destination:
Our site:
Our coach:
Again, check out the travel video in the next post for a combination of the usual coach dash cam footage plus the 360 cam perspective from the truck. An unusual view!
(And if you haven’t yet subscribed to the Sinclair Trails YouTube channel, please do so. It doesn’t cost anything, but will help me build my channel, which will let me do more with it.)
Video: Spearfish to Badlands, South Dakota motorhome travel timelapse
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 127 miles from Spearfish, South Dakota to Badlands, South Dakota.
Travel from Spearfish to Badlands, South Dakota
We drove our coach 127 miles, about 2 hours of driving, from Spearfish, South Dakota to Badlands, South Dakota.
Here’s the map route, heading southeast:
An interactive map:
Leaving our site, in a cloud of dust from the gravel:
Leaving the campground:
Heading east on I-90:
Rapid City exit:
A fuel stop at Flying J; we don’t get a discount there, and have to go in to pay, but it was more convenient to our route:
Almost 82 gallons of diesel, a bit over half a tank:
We parked our coach, with the generator running so the ACs would keep it cool, and went in to have lunch:
At the Country Market restaurant in the Flying J:
Menu:
Breakfast for lunch; a little underdone:, but tasty enough:
We had a choice between continuing on I-90, or going on SD-44; we opted for the highway, since we generally prefer them to freeways:
A sea of sad sunflowers, done blooming and going to seed:
Entering Badlands National Park:
Roadworks; driving on gravel isn’t particularly enjoyable in our coach, so we kinda regretted our choice to come this way (we knew that there was roadworks, but didn’t expect a lack of paving):
A prairie dog town (one visible by the fence):
An old cabin and pond:
Interior, SD, population 94:
White River:
Our destination:
Guided to our site:
On his recommendation, we untoaded (unhooked our truck from our coach) before reaching the site, then followed separately:
Parking in our site:
