Category: Destinations
One night in Ithaca, NY–Big Trip #5
We visited Ithaca as part of Big Trip #5 in August 2026. I’ve been intrigued by Ithaca since I was a kid and saw “Ithaca is Gorges” on a bumper sticker at home in Virginia. I don’t know if it was the thought of dramatic nature or the wordplay that appealed to me more, but…
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One night in Rickett’s Glen State Park, PA–Big Trip #5
We visited Rickett’s Glen as part of Big Trip #5 in August 2026. J read about Rickett’s Glen on one of the many travel lists we read… and I can’t find the specific list. So let me just tell you that it’s awesome and worth including if you’re mapping out a road trip through central…
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One night in Paris, VA–Big Trip #5
We visited Paris as part of Big Trip #5 in August 2026. And we’re off! First stop on our fall trip, previously known as the Ontario loop and now as Big Trip #5, was wee Paris, VA. The primary reason we chose Paris was to dine at a specific restaurant, but we were happy with…
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Brevard, NC addendum: two nights in Brevard sans Airstream
Read about our first Brevard visit in May 2025 here, and our second in November 2025 here. I just got back from a couple days in Brevard without the Airstream, without J, and without my Airstream Dog. While normally I wouldn’t post here about a non-Airstream trip, I have some good stuff to report for our next…
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One night in Black Mountain, NC (visit #3)—Thanksgiving Mountains loop
We visited Black Mountain as part of our Thanksgiving Mountains loop in November 2025. Read about our previous visits in November 2023 here, and May 2024 here. From Hendersonville, it was an easy 35-minute interstate drive through Asheville to Black Mountain. As we passed our familiar Asheville exits, we decided to drop off the trailer…
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Two nights in Hendersonville, NC—Thanksgiving Mountains loop
We visited Hendersonville as part of our Thanksgiving Mountains loop in November 2025. Hendersonville is only twenty miles from Brevard, our previous stop, and only thirty miles from Asheville. We could have easily visited as a day trip from either of those places, but we are so glad we spent two nights in Hendersonville instead.…
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Two nights in Brevard, NC (visit #2)—Thanksgiving Mountains loop
We visited Brevard as part of our Thanksgiving Mountains loop in November 2025. Read about our first Brevard visit in May 2025 here, and my non-Airstream Brevard visit in June 2026 here. I had one primary goal for our second visit to Brevard: to spot a white squirrel! White squirrels are the mascot of Brevard,…
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Two nights in Townsend, TN—Thanksgiving Mountains loop
We visited Townsend as part of our Thanksgiving Mountains loop in November 2025. Townsend had been on our radar since we researched a Smokies trip in 2020. Of the Tennessee-side gateway towns to Great Smoky Mountains National Park, it appealed most to us as a base from which to explore the Cades Cove section of…
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One night in Morganton, NC—Thanksgiving Mountains loop
We visited Morganton as part of our Thanksgiving Mountains loop in November 2025. After leaving my sister’s in Burlington, NC, we drove two hours west to Morganton. Morganton had been on our radar since our second Black Mountain visit in May 2024, when the chef at Pure and Proper recommended we visit Fonta Flora Brewery.…
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Trip recap: Thanksgiving Mountains loop
Happy belated Thanksgiving! Once again, I was so behind on trip posts that I didn’t bother writing a planning post for this trip. My family has a Thanksgiving tradition of gathering at my sister’s in the North Carolina piedmont the Saturday before Thanksgiving, and J and I like to bring our own guest room and…
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