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Trip recap: Thanksgiving Mountains loop
Happy belated Thanksgiving! Once again, I was so behind on trip posts that I didn’t bother writing a planning post for this trip. My family has a Thanksgiving tradition of gathering at my sister’s in the North Carolina piedmont the Saturday before Thanksgiving, and J and I like to bring our own guest room and
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Two nights in Banner Elk, NC–October WV/NC Mountains loop
We visited Banner Elk in October 2025 as part of our October WV/NC Mountains loop. I loved Banner Elk. It’s a tiny town way up in the mountains of northwest North Carolina, beyond the larger towns of Boone and Blowing Rock. The Appalachian Trail passes close to Banner Elk, and it’s home to two ski
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One night in Memphis, TN (visit #4) — Tucson for Christmas Trip
We visited Memphis in December 2023 as part of our Tucson for Christmas trip. Read about our first visit in 2017 here, our second in 2020 here, and our third in 2022 here. From Bowling Green, it’s a four-hour interstate drive to Memphis… or should I say West Memphis, AR, where our campground is located, and
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One night in Knoxville, TN — Tucson for Christmas Trip
We were in Knoxville in mid-December 2023, as part of our Tucson for Christmas trip. Our Tucson for Christmas trip has begun! We’re heading west–I’m typing this from cold, rainy Amarillo, and I hit publish in Arizona! Since we’re rushing out West as quickly as reasonably possible, we replaced our usual first stop of Asheville
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One night in Erwin, TN (visit #2)–Five Days in the Mountains
We visited Erwin in September 2023, as part of our Five Days in the Mountains trip. Read about our first visit in late 2021 here. After a quick morning hike in the NC mountains near Blowing Rock, we busted a move to get to our next destination, Erwin, TN, in time for an afternoon rafting
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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
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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Nashville Favorites
This post is based on our six visits to Nashville from 2017 to 2022. As of this writing (mid-2022), we’ve taken the Airstream to Nashville six times: It’s a lot easier to read about our Nashville favorites in one place, rather than dig through multiple posts, so here we’ll pull together the highlights of all
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One night in Erwin, TN–Quickie Fall Loop
We were in Erwin in November 2021, as part of our quickie fall loop from Erwin to Asheville to Lake Lure, NC. Read about our second visit in September 2023 here. I say “in Erwin, TN,” but we didn’t actually go into Erwin proper. We did see a sign for Union Street Taproom, so there’s
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Quickie fall loop: Erwin, TN – Asheville, NC – Lake Lure, NC
We did this loop from November 15 to November 20, 2021. We live in central Virginia, and when we want to take the Airstream out for a few days our usual quickie destination is Asheville. We’ve been there a bunch of times and it checks all the boxes for us: great food, beer, cocktails, hiking,
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