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Category: Destinations

  • One night in Nashville, TN (visit #6)–Big Trip #4

    One night in Nashville, TN (visit #6)–Big Trip #4

    We were in Nashville in mid-November 2022, as part of Big Trip #4. Read about our favorites from our five previous trips here. We’ve now taken the Airstream to Nashville six times… but we may not return. Why? We love Nashville, but part of the reason is because we loved our campground at the Nashville Fairgrounds,…

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  • One night in West Memphis, AR (visit #3)–Big Trip #4

    One night in West Memphis, AR (visit #3)–Big Trip #4

    We were in West Memphis in mid-November 2022, as part of Big Trip #4. Read about our two previous trips to Memphis in 2020 here and 2017 here, and our subsequent visit in 2023 here. This is one of my favorite quick stops on the I-40 slog through the middle of the country, and as we…

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  • One night in Clarksville, AR–Big Trip #4

    One night in Clarksville, AR–Big Trip #4

    We were in Spadra in mid-November 2022, as part of Big Trip #4. J was looking at the map along I-40 to find our next overnight between Tulsa and Memphis, and he zeroed in on a recreation area on a lake in western Arkansas, not far from the interstate. The photos of Spadra Park online were…

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  • One night in Tulsa, OK–Big Trip #4

    One night in Tulsa, OK–Big Trip #4

    We were in Tulsa in early November 2022, as part of Big Trip #4. Read about our second visit in 2023 here. Tulsa’s not quiiiite on the way home to VA from AZ, but it’s well worth the extra hour of driving if you’re traveling I-40 through Oklahoma, as we were when heading from Sayre to…

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  • One night in Sayre, OK–Big Trip #4

    One night in Sayre, OK–Big Trip #4

    We were in Sayre in early November 2022, as part of Big Trip #4. Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plain! We swept down the plain with the Airstream from Palo Duro Canyon in the Texas panhandle, headed toward Tulsa, and picked a dot on the map that seemed interesting for an overnight stop.…

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  • One-and-a-half days in Palo Duro Canyon State Park, TX–Big Trip #4

    One-and-a-half days in Palo Duro Canyon State Park, TX–Big Trip #4

    We were in Palo Duro in early November 2022, as part of Big Trip #4. Did you know the second largest canyon in the US is in Texas? I assume I don’t need to say what the #1 largest is. We’ve had Palo Duro Canyon on our master map of possible camping locations for a few…

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  • One night in Tucumcari, NM–Big Trip #4

    One night in Tucumcari, NM–Big Trip #4

    We were in Tucumcari in early November 2022, as part of Big Trip #4. After we hiked in White Sands we were ready to leave Alamogordo, and the next interesting town to the east was Tucumcari, an old Route 66 town, so we moved there for a night. Wikipedia says it’s the largest city on Route…

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  • One night in Alamogordo, NM–Big Trip #4

    One night in Alamogordo, NM–Big Trip #4

    We were in Alamogordo at the beginning of November 2022, as part of Big Trip #4. Heading east from Tucson, you can’t not stop at White Sands National Park. Well, you CAN not stop–we’ve driven past it twice now and not stopped, thinking what’s the big deal about sand dunes, we’ve seen them before, and hiking…

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  • Four nights in Tucson, AZ (visit #3)–Big Trip #4

    Four nights in Tucson, AZ (visit #3)–Big Trip #4

    We were in Tucson at the beginning of November 2022, as part of Big Trip #4. Read about our first trip in 2018 here, our second in 2021 here, and our fourth in 2023 here. And I finally wrote a Tucson Favorites post! We weren’t supposed to go to Tucson during Big Trip #4. When building…

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  • Three nights in Palm Springs, CA–Big Trip #4

    Three nights in Palm Springs, CA–Big Trip #4

    We were in Palm Springs in late October 2022, as part of Big Trip #4. The main reason we wanted to go to Palm Springs as we headed east from Oceanside on the coast was for its signature Desert Modern architecture–the local spin on mid-century modern, adapted for a sunny, leisurely lifestyle. J also wanted to…

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