Savvy Nomad

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.

06/12/2025

Episode 12: Stuck on the Soane. We’re having a mechanical problem but at least there is swimming available!
With Savvy Nomad, RC Travel, David Devere, Sara Duke, Rick Egge, Carla Egge,

We travel our first day on this lazy river in burgundy and discover a fuel lead on our engine. An over zealous mechanic makes it a permanent fix. We were lim...

06/11/2025

Episode 11: Tiny creatures & delights, quiet scenes along the route, exploring Fontenoy le Chateau, and an overview of Corre Marina. Enjoy! With Savvy Nomad, RC Travel, David Devere, Sara Duke, Rick Egge, Carla Egge, .

Here we show you some of the tiny creatures along the canal and we explore the village of Fontenoy-le-Chateau.

06/08/2025

Episode 10: Traveling in the Vosges Mountains. It’s a rain forest! So why are the canals SO low? With Savvy Nomad, RC Travel, David Devere, Sara Duke, Rick Egge, Carla Egge,

We leave Epinal we and mount the last 14 locks up to the summit where we find the water level is very low. The next day we start working our way down encoun...

06/06/2025

It’s D-Day. We rented e-bikes and went to the American Cemetery outside of Epinal (1 of 14 American Cemeteries in France). We biked through pouring rain and it was worth it. . With Savvy Nomad, RC Travel, David Devere, Sara Duke, Rick Egge, Carla Egge,

We travel to the wonderful port of Epinal, rent some bikes and visit the somber cemetery of Epinal where 5200 Americans who gave their lives for freedom are ...

06/04/2025

Hi Folks - here we are with Episode 8: Nancy to Charmes in 2 days. A variety show of sun, rain, easy cruising, and getting stuck in a lock. Boat days are the best days. With Savvy Nomad, RC Travel, David Devere, Sara Duke, Rick Egge, Carla Egge, .

We leave Nancy heading up the embranchment were we travel 16km and 19 ecluse, (locks). The next day finds us traveling up the canal des Vosges in the pourin...

06/02/2025

Episode 7: cruising into Nancy; Dave nails it docking the boat - couldn’t be more perfect! and the Insta360 gives a top down overview; a tour of Place Stanislas in Nancy about 10 pm with amazing lighting and a little dancing. With Savvy Nomad, RC Travel, David Devere, Rick Egge, Sara Duke, Carla Egge, .

We slide into Nancy and spend a couple days provisioning before starting our next leg to Epinal. We are 1/4 a way to Burgundy. We have traveled 153km of an a...

06/01/2025

Episode 6: Visiting a few WWI cemeteries in Lagarde (one French, one German) and sharing the history; showing what happens when you get double reds at a lock; French fishermen come out in droves; a few different ways to moor the boat; lots of sunshine. ☀️ With Savvy Nomad, RC Travel, , David Devere, Sara Duke, Rick Egge, Carla Egge.

In this episode we visit the French and German cemeteries in Legarde and travel down the canal toward Nancy. I also review mooring options along the canal.