Summary 2022

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:

Highway

To Buckeye, Arizona:

Mountains

To Desert Hot Springs, California:

Inspection station

To Orange, California:

Freeway

To Santa Barbara, California:

Hollywood sign

To Jurupa Valley, California:

Coast

To Palm Desert, California:

Freeway

To Buckeye, Arizona:

Welcome to Arizona

To Picacho, Arizona:

Picacho Peak

To Tucson, Arizona:

Tucson

To Cottonwood, Arizona:

Cacti

To Williams, Arizona:

Williams arch

To Lake Mead, Boulder City, Nevada:

Entering Nevada

To Caliente, Nevada:

Rocks and curves

To Hatch, Utah:

Entering Utah

To Torrey, Utah:

Road and mountains

To Green River, Utah:

Capitol Reef National Park

To Monument Valley, Utah:

Rocks

To Mancos, Colorado:

Rocks

To Montrose, Colorado:

River

To Vernal, Utah:

Steep grade, sharp curves

To Rock Springs, Wyoming:

Highway

To Heber City, Utah:

Heber City exit

To Declo, Idaho:

Welcome to Idaho

To Caldwell, Idaho:

Snake River

To Dayville, Oregon:

Welcome to Oregon

To Bend, Oregon:

Hills

To Lebanon, Oregon:

Rough road

To Buxton, Oregon:

Our coach

To Welches, Oregon:

Portland

To Eatonville, Washington:

Highway 12

To Shelton, Washington:

Shelton sign

To Concrete, Washington:

Seattle

To Kelso, Washington:

Seattle Space Needle

To Plymouth, Washington:

Gorge

To Athol, Idaho:

US-395

To Marion, Montana:

Kootenai River

To West Glacier, Montana:

Coach parked at Woody's

To Missoula, Montana:

MT-35

To Livingston, Montana:

Smoky trees

To Buffalo, Wyoming:

Wyoming

To Wheatland, Wyoming:

Interesting rocks

To Longmont, Colorado:

Removing tire

To Colorado Springs, Colorado:

Heading towards state park

To Alamosa, Colorado:

Scenic mountains

To Taos, New Mexico:

Taos

To Albuquerque, New Mexico:

Rio Grande gorge

To Truth or Consequences, New Mexico:

Mountains

To Las Cruces, New Mexico:

Las Cruces and mountains

To Ruidoso Downs, New Mexico:

Mountains

To Carlsbad, New Mexico:

Pond

To Presidio, Texas:

Entering Texas

To Marathon, Texas:

US-67

To Junction, Texas:

Cutaway

To San Antonio, Texas:

Freeway overpasses

To Corpus Christi, Texas:

Back to our coach

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:

Timezones

Another variation of the map, with more detail:

Route map 2022

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:

Route map 2021 to 2022

Fascinating!