Guided RV Tours
Join the Kosher Sherpa on a guided RV tour! With exciting itineraries of attractions and camping locations, your family will have a great time and create lasting memories that come with traveling together.
To sign up for a tour, request a custom tour, or to suggest changes to tour dates, duration, or destinations, please contact me.
Sample Winter Guided Tour – Banditos at the Border
Summary
Escape the winter sleet and snow and join the Kosher Sherpa for a week-long tour of Southeast Arizona! It’s regularly over 100 degrees here in the summer, but during our winter trip expect generally dry weather with daily highs in the mid- to high-60s. There’s something for everyone on this trip, from guided mine tours to re-enacted Old West shootouts to ghost towns.
Nuts and Bolts
Tour includes:
- Coordination of RV rental
- Coordination of Hotel reservations and shuttle to RV rental facility
- Planned Route & Itinerary
- Detailed Trip Logs: Turn-By-Turn Instructions
- Use of one set of fleishig cookware
- Use of one fleishig grill and propane supply
Tour does not include:
- Transportation to and from Tuscon, Arizona
- Sunday night hotel cost (group rate discount TBD)
- RV rental cost (roughly $500)
- Admission and Camping Fees where applicable (see below)
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Itinerary
Note: Some itinerary items are “weather permitting”. Fees for camping locations and attractions indicated with “($)”.
Sunday
- Arrive in Tuscon, AZ
- Overnight at local hotel ($)
Monday
- Pickup RV, overview of RV use
- Guided bus tour of the world’s largest military aircraft storage facility (over 4000 aircraft from all military branches) ($)
- Guided tour of modern open-pit copper mining and processing facility ($)
- Camp at Tuscon-area campground with full hookups (water, electric, sewer) ($)
Tuesday
- Discover Javalinas and other desert mammals, desert plants, reptiles, and more at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum ($)
- Browsing/Shopping at an Arizona artist’s colony
- Camp on Federal Land in the Sonoran Desert
- Campfire with S’mores and cowboy songs (wildfire risk level permitting)
- Optional observational astronomy program with telescope
Wednesday
- Optional sunrise wildlife stroll with photography instruction
- Visit a ghost town founded in the 1880s, then abandoned in the 1970s
- Visit Tombstone, Arizona, with re-enactment of the famous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral ($ for some attractions)
- Underground mine train tour of a 1890s copper mine ($)
- Camp at wildlife preserve marsh, see group landing of thousands of Sandhill Cranes
Thursday
- Optional sunrise wildlife watch (group takeoff of thousands of Sandhill Cranes) with photography instruction
- Visit Chiricahua National Monument, optional shuttle to Masai Point with downhill return hike ($)
- Camp at Tuscon-area campground with full hookups (water, electric, sewer) ($)
Friday
- Return RVs and farewell
- Start/Finish location: Tuscon, AZ
- Cost: $600 per family
- Total Distance: 450 miles