Looking Back On Our 2022 Travels
Happy New Year!!!
This week, we're Wingin' It as we look back on our 2022 travel adventures... how many miles we traveled, how often we moved the RV, our average length of stay, some of our bucket list stops and what we learned about our travel style that will impact our future travels.
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Video: 2022 Year In Review and 2023 Travel Plans
Our 2022 RV Travels By The Numbers
We left our annual winter stop at Jamaica Beach RV Resort in Galveston, Texas on March 1, 2022. We traveled constantly for 8 months before returning to Jamaica Beach in November 2022. That's 8 months of uninterrupted roadtrip.
In that time we drove the RV 5,500+ miles and stayed in 10 states.
Our average travel day took us 138 miles and we moved 45 times in the 32 weeks of travel, averaging 5 nights at each location.
Our most common length of stay was 7 nights, which we did 12 times.
Our least common length of stay was 1 night, which we did only 3 times.
What Types of RV Camping Did We Do?
In 2022, we stayed in...
20 RV Parks/Resorts
8 State Parks
4 Fairgrounds/Event Centers/Cultural Centers
2 River Authority Parks
2 City/County Parks
1 Corps of Engineer (COE) Park
1 Friends' House (Thanks Howard and Betty!)
What Did We Do On The Road Trip?
We visited...
3 National Parks
5 National Monuments
2 National Historic Sites
1 National Recreation Area
We attended 3 RV Rallies in 3 different states.
And we checked several things off our Bucket List!
Our 2022 Travel Stops
Matagorda Bay Nature Park in Matagorda TX
Choke Canyon State Park, Calliham TX
Blanco State Park in Blanco TX
Black Rock Park, Buchanan Dam TX (content coming)
Llano River Chuck Wagon Cook-Off, Llano TX (We have more to share on Llano!)
Inks Lake State Park, Burnet TX (content coming)
Longhorn Cavern State Park, Burnet TX (content coming)
Airport Park, Waco TX (content coming)
We had our annual service done at National Indoor RV Centers (NIRVC), Lewisville TX
We were Wingin' It! with our friend Don Hagge
America's First Automated RV Park, Sullivan MO
We had warranty work done at the Newmar Customer Service Center, Nappanee IN
Visited family in Des Moines IA
We took in the College World Series in Omaha NE with family!
Western Nebraska and Fort Laramie WY
Scotts Bluff National Monument, Gering NE where we hiked the Saddle Rock Trail
Cheyenne WY and Curt Gowdy State Park where we hiked to Hidden Falls
Found the Northern Boundary of the Republic of Texas in Rawlins WY
We dry camped for 10 straight days in Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area and Dinosaur National Monument, Utah
Granby CO and Rocky Mountain National Park (content coming)
Traveling Robert joined us on Wingin' It!
Frisco CO (content coming)
Breckenridge CO (content coming)
Glenwood Springs CO (content coming)
Fruita CO and Colorado National Monument (content coming)
Moab UT and Arches National Park (content coming)
Todd and Sheila from Switch It Up joined us on an episode of Wingin' It!
Cortez CO (content coming)
Canyons of the Ancients National Monument (content coming)
Mesa Verde National Park (content coming)
We rode the Durango Silverton Train in Durango CO! (content coming)
50th Annual Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque NM (more on ABQ coming)
We had front steer tire failure in Amarillo TX
Caprock Canyons State Park, Quitaque TX (new content coming)
Galveston Island State Park, Galveston TX (new content coming)
