2025 stickers

On the passenger-side slide-out, we have a large sticker with the Sinclair Trails logo, a map of the US showing the states we’re visited, a QR code for the website, and stickers with the SinclairTrails.com domain name and @SinclairTrails social handle:

Stickers on side of RV

The states sticker consists of separate stickers for each state, applied to a base sticker. Our rule is that we have to have done something in a state for it to count (e.g. camp, eat in a restaurant, or explore something, not just driving through). Once we have done something in a new state, we add its sticker. We’ve now visited all of the contiguous states, 48 out of 50; just Alaska and Hawaii to go:

State stickers

These stickers tend to fade fairly quickly; here’s what they looked like a year ago, for comparison:

States map

We may get new stickers that include Canada when we visit Alaska, since we’ll drive through part of Canada to get there.

On the driver-side slide-out of the coach, we have stickers for each of the National Parks we have visited, that being another of the goals in our travels. We visited 5 more parks in 2025 (plus revisited several), so have visited 52 of the 63 parks; just 11 left:

National Park stickers

Of course, we’ve also visited numerous National Monuments, National Historic Sites, and other classifications. With 433 units of various types in the National Park System, not to mention parks administered by states, forest services, etc, we had to cap the memorializing of them somewhere! National Parks are the goal; others are gravy.

However, inside our coach we have a framed board with a wooden map of the US, around which we add stickers and pins for any kind of attraction we visit (we get stickers if available small enough, but tend to get pins instead). It’s populated a bit more since 2024, 2023, and 2022, though still some space for future attractions:

Sticker and pin board

The wooden map has pins for states we’ve visited; the pins feature the state flags:

Sticker and pin board

Fun memorabilia.

2025 special posts

While most of the posts on this blog are about modifications, travel, campgrounds, and attractions, I sometimes post about other topics. This is a summary of those posts from 2025. (See also those from 2024, 2023, and 2022.) These posts have the special category (with earliest or latest posts at the top).

You can also see all of these summary posts together via the Special Summary tag, with the earliest posts at the top, or the latest posts at the top.

As with previous summaries, for each I include a link to the corresponding blog post, and a sample picture; see the post for details.

Completed visiting all contiguous states:

Jenn adding last state pin

Completed visiting all contiguous National Parks:

National Park stickers on slide of motorhome

Spending a month exploring New Zealand:

New Zealand route

After visiting all National Parks in the 48 contiguious states, which are our most and least favorites?

NPS tier list

Back from New Zealand:

Van on beachfront with lighthouse in background

Video

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.

About Sinclair Trails

2025 baseball parks

This is a summary of baseball-related posts from 2025.

One of our stretch goals in exploring the US is to attend a game at every Major League baseball stadium. As with our other goals, we have a spreadsheet to track this.

Back in 2023, we visited just two ballparks, The Coliseum of the Oakland Athletics (which is now closed) and T-Mobile Field of our Seattle Mariners.

In 2024, we visited seven more: Truist Park of the Atlanta Braves, Oriole Park of the Baltimore Orioles, Nationals Park of the Washington Nationals, Busch Stadium of the St Louis Cardinals, Target Field of the Minnesota Twins, Oracle Park of the San Francisco Giants, and Dodger Stadium of the Los Angeles Dodgers (plus we revisited the Mariners). We also visited some minor league stadiums, and the Field of Dreams movie site.

In 2025, we visited another seven: Citizens Bank Park of the Philadelphia Phillies, Comerica Park of the Detroit Tigers, Progressive Field of the Cleveland Guardians, Rogers Centre of the Toronto Blue Jays, Fenway Park of the Boston Red Sox, Yankee Stadium of the New York Yankees, and PNC Park of the Pittsburgh Pirates (and the Mariners again, including a Bananaball game at Seattle’s T-Mobile Park). And some spring training and minor league games, plus the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.

Again, you can also see the attractions from 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021. And you can see all of the attraction-related blog posts via the exploring category, with the earliest posts at the top, or the latest posts at the top, or more specifically the baseball category (with earliest or latest posts at the top).

Detroit Tigers vs Philadelphia Phillies spring training game:

Play ball

Baltimore Orioles vs Tampa Bay Rays spring training:

Ballpark

Philadelphia Phillies vs San Francisco Giants:

View from our seats, Section 132, Row 26, Seats 1-2

Harrisburg Senators vs Erie SeaWolves:

View from our seats, section 110, row 1, seats 1 & 2

Akron RubberDucks vs Somerset Patriots:

Ballpark

Detroit Tigers vs Boston Red Sox:

View from our seats

Cleveland Guardians vs Los Angeles Angels:

View from our seats

Toronto Blue Jays vs Philadelphia Phillies:

Selfie from our seats

National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum:

Exhibits

Fenway tours:

On the field

Boston Red Sox vs Cincinnati Reds:

View from our seats

New York Yankees vs Seattle Mariners:

Baseball

New York Yankees vs Seattle Mariners:

View from our seats

Pittsburgh Pirates vs Chicago White Sox:

View from our seats

Tacoma Rainiers vs Reno Aces:

View from our seats

Banana Ball: Savannah Bananas vs The Firefighters:

Bananaball

Mariners vs Dodgers:

View from our seats

Mariners vs Dodgers again:

View from our seats

Play ball!

2025 towns

This summary is about cities and towns I’ve posted about. I don’t tend to do these posts very often, so there aren’t many.

Again, you can also see the attractions from 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021. And you can see all of the attraction-related blog posts via the exploring category, with the earliest posts at the top, or the latest posts at the top, or more specifically the town category (with earliest or latest posts at the top).

Amish country covered bridges:

Covered bridge

Cooperstown:

More of the town

Woodstock, Vermont:

Woodstock

Essex Coastal Scenic Byway:

Beverly, Massachusetts

Rhode Island:

Gilded Age mansions

Custer:

Custer

Some interesting places.

2025 food

A summary of food- and restaurant-related posts in 2025.

Again, you can also see the attractions from 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021. And you can see all of the attraction-related blog posts via the exploring category, with the earliest posts at the top, or the latest posts at the top, or more specifically the food category (with earliest or latest posts at the top)

Melvin’s BBQ:

David's tray

Soda Jerk Diner & Dairy Bar:

Soda Jerk Diner

Amish farmers market:

Our purchases

Big Boy:

Big Boy sign

The Omlette Shoppe:

Also pancakes

Mangia! Mangia!:

Cannoli

Donatello’s:

Donatello's

King Arthur Baking Company:

King Arthur

Ben & Jerry’s Factory Tour:

Ben & Jerry's Factory Tour

Bull N’ Claw:

Fish and chips

Witchside Tavern:

Food

Mercy Tavern:

Truffle fries

Gateway Lunt’s Lobster Pound:

Gateway Lunt's Lobster Pound

Archie’s Lobster:

Archie's Lobster

Momo’s Cheesecakes:

Momo's Cheesecakes

Sugar Bakery:

Sugar Bakery

Suomi Home Bakery & Restaurant:

Suomi Home Bakery & Restaurant

Tasty stuff.

2025 theme parks

Not sure what it says about us that it’s worthwhile to have a summary post about theme parks, but here we are.

Again, you can also see the attractions from 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021. And you can see all of the attraction-related blog posts via the exploring category, with the earliest posts at the top, or the latest posts at the top, or more specifically the theme park category (with earliest or latest posts at the top).

Disney World: Animal Kingdom:

Posed photo

Disney World: Magic Kingdom After Dark:

Posed photo in front of the castle

Disney World: Hollywood Studios:

Posed photo

Disney World: Hollywood Studios After Dark:

Muppet area

Disney World: Epcot:

Epcot

Disney World: Magic Kingdom:

Castle

Disney World: Epcot After Dark:

Spaceship Earth globe

Disneyland halloween[This link won’t work until later.]

Castle

Disney California Adventure halloween[This link won’t work until later.]

Halloween decorations

Disneyland Christmas[This link won’t work until later.]

It's a Small World

Disney California Adventure Christmas[This link won’t work until later.]

Christmas tree

Fun times.