This will be our fourth time taking the Airstream to Tucson. Read about our first trip here, second here, and third here! And I finally wrote a Tucson Favorites post!
Luuuucky us! We get to spend Christmas in Tucson with family! We’ll be in the Airstream in our usual campground, and the fam will be in an Airbnb close to downtown, and we’ll hike and eat and drink and be merry. On the list of ways to entertain the family in Tucson, basically pulled from our favorites that we do each visit:
- Hike in Catalina State Park (we’ll park the Airstream there for a couple nights after Tucson), and on the non-Catalina days, hike in the in-town parks
- Drink beers at Puebla Vida
- Hang out at MSA Annex
- Take J’s mom somewhere neat for her birthday dinner… where should we go?
And if we’re driving all the way to Tucson we might as well do some other fun stuff while out West. Here’s roughly what we’re thinking… any suggestions?
- Power through the drive to AZ, with quick stops in Asheville, Memphis, Little Rock, Tulsa, Amarillo, and Albuquerque
- After Tucson and Catalina, we get creative: head north towards Death Valley, by way of Prescott and Valley of Fire State Park
- From Death Valley, hop down to Joshua Tree
- Bounce our way back across AZ and NM to TX, landing in Austin. We’d love to spend time in Guadalupe Mountains NP, but it’ll surely be too cold in January, and we’d REALLY love to return to Big Bend, but that would add at least a week to our trip. Maybe!
- Stop in Lafayette, LA on the way to New Orleans
- Zip up to Atlanta to see our cousins on the way back home to VA
We love Tucson and are happy we get to return so soon after Big Trip #4. We haven’t been back to Austin since the snowpocalypse, so it’ll be nice to visit during (hopefully) normal winter weather. And we’re SUPER excited to go to Death Valley for the first time!
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