Food Desert — As we travel we often encounter both outstanding food choices and food deserts. Tucson is not a food desert. In fact, our anniversary dinner uncovered a great downtown restaurant. Great downtown restaurants alone would not create a blog post. We have been to lots of great downtown restaurants. However, having the best …
Campsite Review: KOA Tucson Campground is located in southeast Tucson south of Interstate 10. It is a very nice campground / RV park. The joke is — the ideal location for a KOA is between the largest freeway and nearest train track — ideally, it should be near a major airport and in a light …
The Biosphere 2 experiment tried to replicate a proposed settlement on the moon, or on Mars. It didn’t work according to plan. But failed experiments are still results — just not desired results. Lots of people learned lots of things about life from the Biosphere 2 project and the experiments are still in progress. Now …
Campsite Review: Catalina Campground is located north of Tucson at Catalina State Park, east of Arizona Route 77. It is a very nice campground. At the campground, there are two loops with 120 well-spaced large sites with electricity and water. We like the back-in sites in loop A best because they are more private than …
Destructive Lithium Battery Testing — I guess I run with a pretty rough crowd, a friend of mine deliberately destroyed two lithium batteries while testing. He tested them to the point of failure. Smoke Check In the Navy, we used to call an electronic device that failed — smoke checking. If you hit a device …
Valley of the Sun, Valley of Fire, Death Valley, Yuma, notice a trend in our travels? All these places are hot, way too hot in the summer. Winter never really arrives in the Valley of the Sun and this is ideal for us and our RV travels. While every other state in the nation faces …
Campsite Review: Picacho Peak Campground located just to the south of Interstate 10 about halfway between Phoenix and Tucson. It is a very nice campground. No water is available at the campground… I will be saying this again and again. At the campground, there are three loops with 87 well-spaced large sites with electricity. We …
