In no particular order:

Grand Canyon with snow is beautiful and way less crowded than in summer.
Anza Borrego/Jashua tree in Cal.
Chiricahua in SE AZ (if you get that far south)
Boyce Thompson aroboretum near Globe, AZ
Oak Creek Canyon as an alternative to I-17 to Flagstaff from Phx
Sahuaro (Saguaro?) National Mon. in Tucson

Karl Wolz

|-----Original Message-----
|From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]
|On Behalf Of Mark Tuovinen
|Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 12:08 PM
|To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
|Subject: Looking for trip planning suggestions
|
|We are getting to closer to committing to our plan of
|traveling the Southwest for approximately 4 weeks starting in
|mid-December.  We are planning on shipping our van to the
|Seattle area next month and flying down to pick it up around
|December 15th.  Several List Members have generously offered a
|place to store the van until we arrive and I hope to make the
|decision on which one will work best for all involved shortly.
| Once we arrive at the van we will load it and hit the road as
|we have to pick up our daughter at Humbolt State University on
|the 16th or 17th.  We plan to travel south from Humbolt as
|stops at either(or both) Van Cafe or GoWesty are in order as
|the van needs new bumpers and maybe a few other items.  From
|there we plan on being somewhere in Arizona most likely
|Tucson, Scottsdale, or Sedona by Christmas to be with family
|and/or friends.  On the return leg of the trip we have to drop
|our daughter back at Humbolt, our 9yr old son at an airport
|for an escorted flight home, stash the van someplace in
|storage until Spring, and get on a flight to Las Vegas for a
|Conference.  This will of course happen without a hitch as we
|all know that a Vanagon will never let its operator down nor
|leave them stranded on the side of a highway.  If you were
|wandering the Southwest during this time of year where would
|you go and what would you do?  I am also looking for one or
|more books I have seen mentioned on the List in the past that
|identified camping sites(BLM and
|others) etc.  If anyone knows the titles of any of these books
|please let me know so I can track them down more easily.  I
|had them at one time but they are lost to an old email address
|that i can no longer access.  I would love to meet up along
|the way with some of the List members that I only know by
|their Posts so if anyone is interested drop me an email and we
|will see if the schedule works.
|
|TIA
|
|Mark in AK
|`87 Westy Syncro
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