Savvy Nomad

10/31/2025

10/09/2025

We are excited to partner with Duluth Community Education to offer these travel planning classes: Planning a Trip to France (Nov. 6) & Planning a Barging Trip to France (Nov. 13). As life-long travelers, we love sharing and helping other folks make their next trip the best one yet. See our Events tab for details. https://www.facebook.com/SavvyNomad/events
With David Devere, Sara Duke, .

07/18/2025

Dear Folks - Just wanted to share that our barge trip from Strasbourg to Saint Jean de Losne has been organized into a playlist on YouTube for ease of watching. If you need to veg out this weekend and are looking for a binge watch, here's the link. Enjoy!
With David Devere, Sara Duke, Rick Egge, Carla Olson Egge, , .

Our canal trip from Strasbourg to Saint-Jean-de-Losne in the early summer of 2025. We traveled 671km and transited 231 locks, 6 tunnels and one boat lift!

06/23/2025

Episode 16: Besançon! This is our final episode of the season. We’ll be back in the fall with more friends and more exploring this route. Besançon is an amazing and vibrant city. Enjoy some scenes of the city-wide Solstice celebration, touring the Citadel, visiting St. Vit & Thoraise. A shout-out to Rick Egge from RC Travel for providing many of the video thumbnail images for this series. What a trip it’s been. 🤩 With Savvy Nomad, David Devere, Sara Duke, Carla Olson Egge, .

This episode mark the end of this vlog, we have made it to our new cruising grounds of Bourgogne Franche-Comte. We meet some characters along the canal and a...

06/19/2025

Episode 15: Destination Dole! What an adorable little city! Incredibly clean, filled with flowers, lots of history, and fun shops. What a delight to spend the day. With Savvy Nomad, RC Travel, David Devere, Sara Duke, Rick Egge, Carla Olson Egge, .

In the video we spend a day in Dole discovering the rich heritage of the city and then we head back out on to the water to continue our travels up the canal ...

06/17/2025

Hello! Here’s episode 14: French Cabin Culture from Gray to Auxonne to the Canal du Rhône au Rhin. The Saône was such a beautiful river! With Savvy Nomad, RC Travel, David Devere, Sara Duke, Rick Egge, Carla Olson Egge, .

We arrive in Burgundy and almost immediately leave, but not really, we head up the Canal du Rhône au Rhin with our destination the ancient city of Besancon.

06/15/2025

Pictures from our boat partners.

06/15/2025

Episode 13: Problem Solved! Marc from Locaboat Holidays really came through for us by finding the part we needed. Thank you!
We cruised on to Ray Sur Soane and enjoyed the swimming and the historic & well kept village. So cute!
We also share some of the “road signs” you might see on the waterway, and how to follow them.
With Savvy Nomad, RC Travel, David Devere, Sara Duke, Rick Egge, Carla Olson Egge, .

We are moving our boat from Strasbourg to Central Burgundy. Follow along as we discover France by Barge.