bugsy running on lone rock beach with the airstream and f-150 in the background
  • Trip planning: Spring quickie to the mountains

    Trip planning: Spring quickie to the mountains

    We went on this little trip in April 2023. This post has been edited to include where we actually went! We haven’t had the Airstream out since November (despite only finishing the Big Trip #4 posts just a few weeks ago–it took us a while to write everything up!), and we’re itching to hit the…

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  • Trip planning: Tucson for Christmas

    Trip planning: Tucson for Christmas

    This will be our fourth time taking the Airstream to Tucson. Read about our first trip here, second here, and third here! And I finally wrote a Tucson Favorites post! [Update, like a year later: here’s the retrospective post for this trip!] Luuuucky us! We get to spend Christmas in Tucson with family! We’ll be…

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  • Big Trip #4 Retrospective

    Big Trip #4 Retrospective

    Big Trip #4 was in fact a BIG trip! We covered a lot of ground and had all sorts of memorable experiences, and that’s why it took me almost four months to finish writing all the trip posts. My bad. But I love writing these retrospectives a few months after we get home because it…

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  • Big Trip #4 – Best places we ate

    Big Trip #4 – Best places we ate

    While we were working on the Big Trip #4 Retrospective post, I had fun putting this one together. No, it’s not about our favorite restaurants! Here are the best places we ate on Big Trip #4, in chronological order:

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  • 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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