Our 2023 RV Travel Map

We know that this is soooo late, but we enjoy seeing a good map of where we've been. 2023 was a crazy year with purchasing a house and coming off the full-time road. But just to be consistent, we have to include a map of the camp sites where we stayed in the motor home in 2023.

We started and returned to the panhandle of Oklahoma, where both our mothers still live. We spent part of the winter in the south, visiting Bentsen Grove Resort in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. In the spring we headed west and north for a return trip to Big Bend National Park. It can be hot and crowded during Spring Break at this popular national park, but it's a great place to visit a second time. We took a national park route to Guadalupe Mountains National Park and Carlsbad Caverns National Park as well. Our summer travels headed north for a stay in Badlands National Park and the Black Hills of South Dakota. Custer State Park is nicer than some national parks, with lots of God's wonders within its borders. We were also pleasantly surprised with the mountains of northern Wyoming as we made a slow trip through the Bighorn and Bear Tooth Mountains. We saw more moose and elk in the Bighorn mountains of Wyoming than we have in all our travels. What a nice surprise! We made another stop in Wyoming's Snowy Mountain Range, which is another great place to visit a second time. Then we headed south into Colorado, where we spent the month of August near Buena Vista, Colorado. What a cool August, with hikes and kayaking and burro races at high altitude! We headed back to the panhandle of Oklahoma earlier and faster than expected when both of our mothers ended up at the hospital emergency room on the same day. We ended our travels for the year earlier than ever before, as we were back in Oklahoma by Labor Day.  

Each spot on the map is a camp site where we spent at least one night in the motor home. We traveled in nine different states and stayed at 47 locations. We think that is the smallest yearly numbers since we started full-timing nine years ago. Even though the font is quite small, the name of each of those spots is listed below:

Even though it's very late, it feels good to get that 2023 summary up on the blog. Thanks for coming along for another year!