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Tag: hiking

  • Three days in Fayetteville, WV–Misty Mountain Week trip

    Three days in Fayetteville, WV–Misty Mountain Week trip

    We were in Fayetteville in September 2019; we also visited Asheville and the Misty Mountain Music Festival on this week away. Read about our second visit in 2021 here, our third visit in 2022 here, and our fourth visit in 2023 here! After Asheville, the next stop on our way to the Misty Mountain Music…

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  • Three days in Asheville, NC (visit #7)–Misty Mountain Week trip

    Three days in Asheville, NC (visit #7)–Misty Mountain Week trip

    We were in Asheville in September 2019; we also visited Fayetteville and the Misty Mountain Music Festival on this week away. The Airstream had been parked all summer after we got home from our Maine trip, alone and lonely (except for the collection of black widows hanging out around the chocks and levelers), until we…

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  • Trip planning: Asheville NC and Fayetteville WV

    Trip planning: Asheville NC and Fayetteville WV

    This planning post was for a trip to Asheville and Fayetteville in September 2019. …but our ultimate destination isn’t either of those places. It’s our Airstream’s old home Misty Mountain Camp Resort in Crozet, VA, for the Misty Mountain Music Festival, a weekend of Virginia performers and local food, beer, and crafts. This will be…

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  • Two days in Camden, Maine–Acadia Loop trip

    Two days in Camden, Maine–Acadia Loop trip

    We visited Camden in May 2019 during our Acadia National Park trip. Campground After leaving Bar Harbor, we wanted to explore Central Maine’s coast, so we spent two nights at Megunticook Campground near the towns of Camden, Rockport, and Rockland. It’s a super friendly park, with a sweet doggy in the office and lots of space…

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  • Acadia National Park

    Acadia National Park

    We visited Acadia in May 2019 as part of this loop trip to Maine. Just outside the quaint seaside town of Bar Harbor, Maine, a five-hour drive north of Boston, sits the exquisite seaside jumble of rocks known as Acadia National Park. We took the Airstream up to Bar Harbor in mid-May for our first…

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  • Tarantulas!

    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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  • Big Trip #2: Retrospective

    Big Trip #2: Retrospective

    Big Trip #2 was in Fall of 2018; you should also read about Big Trip #1 in 2016, Big Trip #3 in 2020, and Big Trip #4 in 2022! Our final stop on Big Trip #2 was Asheville for one night, but I already listed our activities there on the Big Trip #2 Catch-up post,…

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  • Asheville, NC hiking index

    Asheville, NC hiking index

    Read our many Asheville posts here! Hello! This is not a normal trip recap or planning post, sorry. We’re heading to our favorite quickie Airstream destination, Asheville, next weekend to meet our favorite people from Atlanta (who let us park the Airstream in their driveway when we visit)–but without the Airstream (gasp!) and without Bugsy…

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  • Big Bend National Park (visit #3)–Big Trip #2

    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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  • Saguaro National Park

    Saguaro National Park

    We visited Saguaro National Park in November 2018 while staying in Tucson during Big Trip #2. Close your eyes and picture a cactus standing in the desert. I’m going to guess your imaginary cactus friend is a saguaro! Am I right? Saguaro (pronounced “sah-WAR-oh”) cacti, standing tall with cartoon arms, are all over pop culture,…

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