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  • Three nights in Austin, TX (visit #6)–Tucson for Christmas trip

    Three nights in Austin, TX (visit #6)–Tucson for Christmas trip

    We were in Austin in January 2024, as part of our Tucson for Christmas trip. Read about our previous visits here: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, and again a few weeks later in 2021. Oh man we love Airstreaming in (to?) Austin. The location of the campground, the food, the weather (well, usually), the running, the beer, the music… it’s just…

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  • Three, no, two nights in Austin, TX (visit #5)–Winter Warmth trip

    Three, no, two nights in Austin, TX (visit #5)–Winter Warmth trip

    We were in Austin in February 2021 during our Winter Warmth Trip. Haha!! Read about our previous visits here: 2017, 2018, and 2019, and earlier on this trip in 2021; and our subsequent visit in 2024 here. Have you been following our winter weather saga? We dummies left sunny Arizona and headed into the icy…

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  • Three days in Austin, TX (visit #4)–Winter Warmth trip

    Three days in Austin, TX (visit #4)–Winter Warmth trip

    We were in Austin in January 2021, as part of our Winter Warmth Trip. Read about our previous visits here: 2017, 2018, and 2019, and our Snowmaggedon experience in 2021 here; and our subsequent visit in 2024 here. Austin made us forget all about our disappointing stopover in Vidor! I need to write an Austin…

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  • Five days in Austin, TX (visit #3)–Big Trip #2

    Five days in Austin, TX (visit #3)–Big Trip #2

    We were in Austin in December 2018 during Big Trip #2. Read about our previous visit in 2017, and our subsequent visits here: #3 in 2019, #4 in 2021, and #5 (during Snowmageddon) later in 2021; and our subsequent visit in 2024 here. Austin is our favorite big-city Airstream destination! The campground is more conveniently located than any hotel,…

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  • Five days in Austin (visit #2)–Big Bend Loop

    Five days in Austin (visit #2)–Big Bend Loop

    We visited Austin in early January 2018 as part of our Big Bend loop. Read about our other Austin visits here. This was our second stay at our favorite urban campground, Pecan Grove, smack dab in the middle of one of our favorite cities, Austin. Read about our first stay here (and third here and…

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  • Austin, TX Breweries

    Austin, TX Breweries

    Read about our most recent visit to Austin here, with more brewery recommendations! The ABGB The Austin Beer Garden Brewing Co. was our favorite city brewery. It helped that it’s located only about a mile from our RV Park, but it would have been our favorite either way thanks to spectacular beers, a great scene…

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  • One day in Charlotte, NC (visit #1)–Winter Loop to Austin

    One day in Charlotte, NC (visit #1)–Winter Loop to Austin

    This post is about our visit in early 2017 as part of our Winter Loop to Austin trip. Click to read about our subsequent visits in late 2017, early 2020, and early 2021. Campground If you google “campgrounds in Charlotte,” you’ll see several dots outside Charlotte’s I-485 perimeter loop, and just one dot inside the circle:…

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  • Urban camping in Atlanta (visit #1)–Winter Loop to Austin

    Urban camping in Atlanta (visit #1)–Winter Loop to Austin

    We visited Atlanta in January 2017 as part of our Winter Loop to Austin. Read about our subsequent trips: visit #2, visit #3, visit #4 and 5, visit #6, and visit #7! We love it when friends let us park the Airstream at their houses, like we did in Denver and Burlington. We’re basically as close…

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  • Two days in Destin, FL–Winter Loop to Austin

    Two days in Destin, FL–Winter Loop to Austin

    We visited Destin in January 2017 as part of our Winter Loop to Austin trip. Destin is a bit of a sprawling beach destination, spreading from the ocean to the bay along a busy main drag, and it has many faces: partially-vacant strip malls, touristy beach bars and seafood restaurants, fancy yacht clubs and golf courses and a Whole Foods,…

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  • Two days in Mobile, AL–Winter Loop to Austin

    Two days in Mobile, AL–Winter Loop to Austin

    We visited Mobile in January 2017 as part of our Winter Loop to Austin. From Lafayette, it’s an easy four-hour drive on I-10 and I-12 to Mobile. Campground We stayed at Shady Acres Campground, a peaceful, no-frills campground in a neighborhood a short drive from downtown Mobile. We appreciated that we were able to cobble…

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