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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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  • One night in Boulder City, NV–Tucson for Christmas trip

    One night in Boulder City, NV–Tucson for Christmas trip

    We visited Boulder City in December 2023 as part of our Tucson for Christmas trip. Boulder City might have been the biggest pleasant surprise of our Tucson for Christmas trip! We went there specifically to see the Hoover Dam and were delighted to find such a cute town. Also delightful: our campsite, with a spectacular view of…

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  • One night in Reno, NV–Big Trip #4

    One night in Reno, NV–Big Trip #4

    We stayed in Reno in early October 2022 as part of Big Trip #4. Our friends moved to Reno several years ago for many reasons: they loved the climate, they loved that it’s an easy flight to all sorts of cool locations out West, they loved the proximity to Lake Tahoe (our previous location), they…

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  • Three nights in Lake Tahoe, CA & NV–Big Trip #4

    Three nights in Lake Tahoe, CA & NV–Big Trip #4

    We visited Lake Tahoe in early October 2022 as part of Big Trip #4. J and I had been to Lake Tahoe before: we went skiing at Homewood a million years ago, and while we don’t remember where we stayed or ate, or even all the people we traveled with, that bright blue lake framing…

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  • Trip planning: Northern Rockies, California in the fall: What’s open in the national parks?

    Trip 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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  • Great Basin National Park

    Great Basin National Park

    We visited Great Basin in October 2018 as part of Big Trip #2. Great Basin National Park is one of the least visited National Parks in the entire system. Sure, it’s a million miles from nowhere (but really, not far from Las Vegas or Salt Lake City), but the remoteness means no crowds. Seriously, the road…

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