With them, however, comes extensive travel, starting the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and wrapping up a little after the New Year's Day. With close to 2 million Arizonans flying or driving for this initial holiday weekend, AAA has offered a set of tips to help make the journey a little bet less stressful.

By the way, the average high on Thanksgiving in Phoenix is in the low 70s, so we’ll likely be above that. Statewide, look for Thanksgiving temperatures to also trend warmer than normal. See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? Please click here to report it.

The busiest days for Thanksgiving week are going to be Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon," Julian Paredes with AAA said. "If you have to travel those days, get started in the morning.” To watch out for issues,

Does Arizona have any Thanksgiving traditions? More than you'd think, with an old-fashioned parade, a turkey trot race and ASU-U of A football.