Category: South Central
California Idaho Montana Mountain West Pacific Northwest Pacific Southwest South Central Texas Trip Planning WyomingTrip planning: Northern Rockies, California in the fall: What’s open in the national parks?
This planning post was for what ended up being Big Trip #3 in fall of 2020! UPDATE! Here are the places we ended up visiting on this trip: Big Trip #3 Catch-up #1 Big Trip #3 Catch-up #2 Big Trip #3 Catch-up #3 and the retrospective post! If you look at our maps, you may…
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Four days in New Orleans, LA (visit #1)–Southeast Lollipop trip
We were in New Orleans as part of our Southeast Lollipop trip in January 2020. Read about our second visit in 2021 here and our third visit in 2024 here. A big city has to be special for us to take the Airstream there: in addition to having fun and/or interesting things to do and…
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Trip planning: Quick Southeast lollipop in January
This planning post was for a trip down through the Southeast to New Orleans in January 2020. Needing to be in Atlanta in January is a good excuse to un-winterize the Airstream and spend a couple weeks in warmer climes. Here’s what we’re thinking for maximizing sunshine, nature, food, and drink: As you know if…
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Tarantulas!
All through my formative years, my aunt and uncle had a pet tarantula. A strange choice of pet, no doubt, but Uncle Jim loves the Desert Southwest more than just about anyone else I know, so I guess it made an odd sort of sense. My first tarantula-cousin was a male named Fred who came…
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One night in Hot Springs, AR (visit #2)–Big Trip #2
We visited Hot Springs in December 2018 as part of Big Trip #2. Read about our first trip in 2016 here. We stayed in Hot Springs for a couple days on our first Big Trip, and knew it would make for an easy quick stopover between Austin and Nashville on this trip. The drive from…
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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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Big Bend National Park (visit #3)–Big Trip #2
We visited Big Bend in December 2018 during Big Trip #2. Read about our other visits here: 2021, early 2018, and 2016. Early December must be one of the best times to visit Big Bend National Park. The campground and trails were quiet and sparsely populated, the weather was pleasant, and look at that color in the…
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Two nights in Alpine, TX (visit #2)–Big Trip #2
We visited Alpine in December 2018 as part of Big Trip #2. Read about our first visit earlier in 2018 here, and our third visit in 2021 here. Alpine is just the quirkiest little town waaaaaay out in the desert of West Texas, a 30-minute drive from also-quirky Marfa, and 100 miles from Big Bend…
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Three days in Fayetteville, AR–Big Bend Loop
We visited Fayetteville in January 2018 as part of our Big Bend Loop trip. I was surprised at how much I liked Fayetteville, not having really known much about it going in. We had mostly considered it a base from which to do some hiking in the Ozarks, but in addition to that, from the…
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Two days in Medicine Park, OK–Big Bend Loop
We visited Medicine Park in January 2018 as part of our Big Bend Loop trip. We learned about Medicine Park from one of the million “best small town” lists we’ve read over the last couple years for Airstream trip planning purposes. The tiny, historic resort town is making a comeback from being down on its…
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