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.
travel
Freeways, highways, and other roads as we move the coach from one site to another. Plus cat pics.
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:
Video: Marathon, Texas to Junction, Texas motorhome travel timelapse
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 269 miles from Marathon, Texas to Junction, Texas.
Travel from Marathon to Junction, Texas
We drove our coach 269 miles, about five hours of driving, from Marathon, Texas to Junction, Texas.
The map route, heading north then east:
Firstly, a video of retracting the front driver-side slide-out:
Our coach with the slides in, and the truck hooked up, ready to leave:
Paladin went straight down the steps, so I left the step cover open:
Some fairly barren hills; compare to later pictures:
Heading north:
Roadworks; narrow lanes are a little disconcerting in a wide coach:
More roadworks:
Joining I-10 to head east:
Roadrunner mural:
“Cud you not text and drive?” There were several amusing cow-themed billboards like this:
Paladin still on the steps, enjoying the view out the cat window:
We stopped at a roadside picnic area for lunch:
Since the step cover was open, I hopped out to stretch my legs. Here’s an old stagecoach stop:
Our coach:
Paladin on the back of the couch during lunch:
An interesting mountain:
We stopped again, at a parking area (there are various kinds of stopping places: a rest stop has bathrooms, a picnic area has tables but no bathrooms, and a parking area doesn’t have any amenities… which is fine for us, being self-contained):
Our coach:
Road Ranger fuel stop:
There was both the Road Ranger truck stop and a Love’s fairly nearby; we would normally have gone for the Love’s, but the Open Roads app indicated that Road Ranger had a much better discounted fuel price:
A river, and a lot more greenery; we’re out of the desert now:
Our exit:
Our destination, Pecan Valley RV Park and Farm, nestled behind a pecan tree farm:
Chick-in:
Guided to our site by the owners:
I started this post with a picture of our coach ready to leave; let’s end with our coach just arrived, before putting the slides out:
Video: Presidio, Texas to Marathon, Texas motorhome travel timelapse
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 120 miles from Presidio, Texas to Marathon, Texas.
Travel from Presidio to Marathon, Texas
We drove our coach 120 miles, about two hours of driving, from Presidio, Texas to Marathon, Texas.
The map route, heading north then east:
An interactive map, with potential stops:
Leaving the campground:
Presidio:
Mountains:
Elephant Rock:
US Border Patrol inspection station; the officer just waved us through without stopping:
Marfa:
A brief stop at a rest area:
Alpine is a cute town:
A couple of low bridges; just a foot of clearance on the first one (we are 12’ 7”):
Exploded train cars?
Our destination:
