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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 Amarillo, TX–Tucson for Christmas trip
We visited Amarillo in December 2023 as part of our Tucson for Christmas trip. From Tulsa, we were back on the interstate for five hours, pushing west west west to Amarillo. We’d hoped to spend the night and do some hiking in gorgeous Palo Duro Canyon State Park just outside Amarillo, but with the forecast…
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Two nights in Black Mountain, NC–Quickie to the Mountains trip
We were in Black Mountain in mid-November 2023, as part of our fall quickie to the mountains trip. We also visited Asheville on this trip. Read about our second Black Mountain visit in May 2024 here and our third in November 2026 here. As previously discussed, we landed in Black Mountain after a couple nights…
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Two nights in Asheville, NC (visit #14)–Quickie to the Mountains trip
We were in Asheville in mid-November 2023, as part of our fall quickie to the mountains trip. We also visited Black Mountain on this trip. We love Asheville, as you know if you’ve previously spent even two minutes perusing this website. We love the food, we love the beer, we love the cocktail bars, we…
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Tucson Favorites
Tucson is one of our very favorite cities to visit. It’s tied to our past: J’s brother and his family lived there for twenty years until about ten years ago; and for as long as I can remember, my Uncle Jim has been in love with the Arizona desert and has made frequent pilgrimages to…
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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-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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Four nights in Tucson, AZ (visit #3)–Big Trip #4
We were in Tucson at the beginning of November 2022, as part of Big Trip #4. Read about our first trip in 2018 here, our second in 2021 here, and our fourth in 2023 here. And I finally wrote a Tucson Favorites post! We weren’t supposed to go to Tucson during Big Trip #4. When building…
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Three nights in Palm Springs, CA–Big Trip #4
We were in Palm Springs in late October 2022, as part of Big Trip #4. The main reason we wanted to go to Palm Springs as we headed east from Oceanside on the coast was for its signature Desert Modern architecture–the local spin on mid-century modern, adapted for a sunny, leisurely lifestyle. J also wanted to…
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One night in Big Sur, CA–Big Trip #4
We were in Big Sur in mid-October, 2022, as part of Big Trip #4. The Marina–Santa Cruz-Big Sur-San Luis Obispo portion of the trip is a little hectic because we had to shuffle some planned stops due to a work obligation that came up for J. The chaos worked out great for us, though, because…
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