bugsy running on lone rock beach with the airstream and f-150 in the background
  • One night in Lafayette, LA (visit #2)–Tucson for Christmas trip

    One night in Lafayette, LA (visit #2)–Tucson for Christmas trip

    We were in Lafayette in January 2024, as part of our Tucson for Christmas trip. Read about our previous visit in 2017 here. The drive to Lafayette from Austin is a pretty crappy six hours: all interstate, and traffic gets snarled up around Houston. BUT! We finally got to stop at a Punjabi dhaba and that made…

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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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  • One night in Fredericksburg, TX (visit #3)–Tucson for Christmas trip

    One night in Fredericksburg, TX (visit #3)–Tucson for Christmas trip

    We visited Fredericksburg in January 2024 as part of our Tucson for Christmas trip. Read about our second visit in 2018 here, and our first in 2016 here. As we drove east from Las Cruces, we considered options for our next stop along I-10 on the way to Austin. Fort Stockton is just under five…

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  • One night in Las Cruces, NM (visit #2)–Tucson for Christmas trip

    One night in Las Cruces, NM (visit #2)–Tucson for Christmas trip

    We visited Las Cruces in January 2024 as part of our Tucson for Christmas trip. Read about our first visit to Las Cruces/Mesilla in 2021 here. Tucson to Catalina to Prescott to Tucson… after eleven nights in Arizona (plus a non-contiguous night in Flagstaff), we’re heading home. But don’t worry, we still have some entertaining stops planned. While…

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  • Two nights in Prescott, AZ–Tucson for Christmas trip

    Two nights in Prescott, AZ–Tucson for Christmas trip

    We visited Prescott in December 2023 as part of our Tucson for Christmas trip. Prescott is known for a historic and happening downtown and outdoor adventures, and we’ve long had it–and specifically the campground we stayed at–on our giant wishlist map with notes along the lines of “looks like a really cool town” and “campground seems like…

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  • Two nights in Catalina State Park, AZ (visit #2)–Tucson for Christmas trip

    Two nights in Catalina State Park, AZ (visit #2)–Tucson for Christmas trip

    We visited Catalina in December 2023 as part of our Tucson for Christmas trip. Read about our first trip in 2021 here. We loooove Catalina State Park. As I said previously, if you’re in Tucson, please go to Catalina for a day, or a night, or a hike. The park is phenomenal, and we had a fantastic…

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  • Seven nights in Tucson, AZ (visit #4)–Tucson for Christmas trip

    Seven nights in Tucson, AZ (visit #4)–Tucson for Christmas trip

    We visited Tucson in December 2023/January 2024 as part of our Tucson for Christmas trip. Read about our first trip in 2018 here, our second in 2021 here, our third in 2022 here, and our Tucson Favorites here! This post combines a stay of five nights with a separate two-night stopover: we drove two hours south from White Tank Mountain…

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  • One night in Waddell, AZ–Tucson for Christmas trip

    One night in Waddell, AZ–Tucson for Christmas trip

    We visited Waddell in December 2023 as part of our Tucson for Christmas trip. If you’re here for info on Waddell, a small town 20 miles northwest of Phoenix, sorry but I don’t know anything about it. I can, however, tell you about Waddell’s wonderful White Tank Mountain Regional Park. White Tank Mountain Regional Park is a…

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  • One night in Las Vegas, NV–Tucson for Christmas trip

    One night in Las Vegas, NV–Tucson for Christmas trip

    We visited Las Vegas in December 2023 as part of our Tucson for Christmas trip. Where to spend a night between Death Valley and our next stop northwest of Phoenix? Well one option that we never expected to Airstream to is Las Vegas! It’s an easy drive from Death Valley, just a couple hours, and we were…

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  • Death Valley National Park

    Death Valley National Park

    We visited Death Valley in December 2023, as part of our Tucson for Christmas trip. Death Valley is HUGE: it’s the largest US national park outside of Alaska, larger than Rhode Island and Delaware combined. It’s also the hottest, driest, and lowest national park, and the hottest place Earth, once hitting 134°F! (Beware of the heat if…

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