Driving from New Hampshire to Arizona is going to be our second longest road trip together (and in general for both of us?). We leave this coming Sunday 11/27 and are planning to take six days and five nights to make the trek. If it were just the two of us we would probably try to make it out there a bit faster, but our trusty sidekicks, Pepper & Sage, probably wouldn’t appreciate that.

The last time we were out in Arizona was our grand Road Trip of 2016, right after we graduated high school. We took just about three and a half weeks to do a massive oval shaped drive around the USA. We stopped for one or two nights in sixteen places, driving through about 28 states, staying with lots of friends and family along the way. It’s incredible to think that we didn’t even drink coffee yet when we made that trip.

This road trip to Arizona will look a little bit different. The route is different and it’s a bit more of a just getting from point A to point B kind of a trip. We’re planning to leave a bit of extra time to explore Nashville though, which was originally our top choice for Dan’s first travel nursing contract. Check out my post on managing long road trips with cats!

This time around our stops will be:

Harrisonburg, Virginia

Nashville, Tennessee

Little Rock, Arkansas

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Albuquerque, New Mexico

and finally…Phoenix, Arizona