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WanderingWaits


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Headed from Chicago to Arizona mid October.  Looking for suggestions of best routes that time of year.  We do need to stop in Albuquerque. 

Also would love to hear about what parks people like in AZ, we have been new full timers for 4 months now.  Moving too much will slow that down in AZ and would love to connect and have fun with hobbies. Seems to be a lot of parks in Mesa, Apache Junction area, would love to hear what others have found.  

Just finishing a trip to Yellowstone, headed back to Chicago for Granddaughters 1st birthday, then we will head out to AZ. 

Thanks for any information.  Safe Travels,

The Wandering Waits (full time newbies)  

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Our friends, the Wisemans, have taken the trip the last two falls.  Here are their journal/blogs from those trips - http://www.mytripjournal.com/wiseman28 and http://www.mytripjournal.com/wiseman32.



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Dear Walts, what's your preferences for parks, meaning budgets, state o r. Private, luxury or economy?

Sherry

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We do the same trip every year starting from Southeast Iowa (where we spend a month to visit family) to Phoenix. As we're just trying to get there and not do sightseeing along the way we do a lot of interstate; I-35 to USHwy 54 (in Wichita), then across Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and to Tucumcari, New Mexico, then I40 thru Albuquerque to Holbrook, AZ then cross country on 377 and 260 to Payson then 87 into the Mesa/Phoenix valley. If you don't want to be right down in the thick of Mesa/Phoenix there's a nice park called Eagle View RV Park in Fort McDowell just before you hit the megalopolis. It's not on the cheap side price wise and it's a bit out of town, but we liked that. But if you want the big parks and lots of 4 lane roads everywhere, then Mesa/Apache Junction can provide all that. We always use RVParkreviews.com to find the places to stay along the way. Best of luck and have a safe trip.

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If you're wanting to move around a bit and like state / county parks, we found that the AZ state parks and the Maricopa County parks had plenty of sites that could accommodate large RVs. Most of those parks have a 2 week limit but we were moving around enough between Tucson and Phoenix with some time out in Quartzsite that we didn't find the 2 week limit too restrictive.

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