Part of I-10 near the New Mexico/Arizona border looks like it has some crazy driving conditions at times. There are several sets of signs that tell you what to do in a dust storm, how to pull aside and stay alive. We questioned turning off lights, but they might confuse drivers behind you into thinking…

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This was a nice weather day for hiking and not having to drive anywhere. We took the Foothills Trail to the Ocotillo Trail to make one, nice long hike at Kartchner Caverns State Park. We also wandered through the visitors center with displays about the area and a video about two cavers who discovered the…

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The historic town of Tombstone, Arizona is a 30-minute drive from our site at Kertchner Caverns so we took a day trip to see what all the hype was about. Tombstone The town of Tombstone provides lots of free parking to visit their blocked off western-themed main street. Parking was plentiful when we arrived midmorning…

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Hello Tucson! We had an easy drive from the state park and found a laundromat near the University of Arizona stadium. Laundry day again, ugh. It was nice to drive through the area; not a game day so traffic was light. Fry’s is a nearby grocery store that gives discounts to students on Tuesdays. Nice…

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It is so nice to find ourselves so close to a national park with lots of hiking trails. We started with the west part of Saguaro National Park with its intense amount of saguaro cacti. Red Hills Visitor Center was our first stop to get another America the Beautiful Pass. Signal Hill was recommended by…

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Longtime friends of Mom and Dad currently live in Surprise, AZ, and Dad loves to join David and Sandy for a couple of weeks during winter to enjoy the milder temperatures and lack of snow. This year, they pulled their fifth-wheel RV down to the campground where we are staying for part of his Arizona…

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Another fun day trip while Dad is in town with Sandy and David. Kartchner Caverns Kartchner Caverns is less than an hour away from Tucson, and has cave tours into a series of caverns that were discovered in the 1970s. The tours are accessible to all and have paths carefully laid out to protect the…

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Back in June of 2023, Lisa and I paid a visit to the Ronald Reagan Minuteman Missile State Historic Site in South Dakota. While there, we toured the Launch Control Site, which included a trip underground to the see the Launch Control Center that was responsible for 10 or so Minutemen Launch Sites (aka missile silos) in the area. It…

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Years ago when Tony and I spent a few days in Tucson, we visited the Pima Air & Space Museum, and thought it would be something my dad would love to see. How fun it was for us to hear about his knowledge, gained from a lifetime interest in aviation and decades of reading Flying…

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About an hour north of our base camp in Tucson is the home to Biosphere 2. Originally built in in the early 1980s as a closed-system experiment, it is now owned by the University of Arizona for the purpose of research and education. Lisa and I first toured the facility in 2017 and it is…

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