adventures with a dog and an airstream
We visited IDNP in August 2022, as part of Big Trip #4 Indiana Dunes National Park, like Cuyahoga Valley National Park, is an urban park. It’s one of the newest national parks in the US, protecting an important shoreline ecosystem...
We were in Savannah from 2/3 to 2/4/2022 as part of our Florida in January trip. Read about our first visit to Savannah in 2017 here. Savannah was the last official stop on our Florida trip; after Savannah, we parked in my...
We were in Jekyll Island from 2/2 to 2/3/2022 as part of our Florida in January trip. Jekyll Island is an enchanting place. It’s a former millionaires’ vacation paradise turned into a state park in 1948, and is home to miles of...
We were in St Augustine from 1/28 to 2/1/2022 as part of our Florida in January trip. Read about our first visit to St Augustine in 2020 here. Our itinerary called for three nights in Ormond Beach followed by three nights in...
We were in Charlotte from February 28 to February 29, 2021. Read about our previous visits in 2020, late 2017, and early 2017. Charlotte is an easy first or last stop, just over three hours south of home. After boondocking...
We were in New Orleans from February 19 to February 22, 2021. Read about our previous visit in 2020 here. We almost didn’t go to New Orleans. After our Texas ordeal, we kind of wanted to shoot straight across to...
We were in San Antonio from January 29 to January 31, 2021. In all our gallivanting around Texas, we’d never taken the Airstream to San Antonio. We’ve seen Austin and San Antonio as an either/or, can’t stop at both, and...
We were driving from Indianapolis to Fargo and didn’t want to kill ourselves with a long haul. Where should we stop? Well I have first cousins once removed (I always need to refer to a chart) in Charles City, Iowa,...
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 see and eat and drink, and it must have a centrally-located campground. We’re not keen...
[Read about our second visit to Tucson in 2021 here!] J and I have a past relationship with Tucson: J’s brother lived there for many years, through grad school and marriage and first real job and the birth of both...