Arizona

We spent much of this winter and spring in the Sonoran Desert. This year, we explored the desert by kayaking on Canyon Lake. Exploring the desert is common for us, but exploring the desert on a lake by kayak is unique. In this adventure, we took our kayaks into the Tonto National Forest, to a […]

One of Geronimo’s Hideouts was in the Chiricahua Mountains. On September 4, 1886, Geronimo and his band of followers surrendered to General Nelson Miles at Skeleton Canyon. Geronimo was known to be in the Chiricahua Mountains before his surrender. The surrender site was at Skeleton Canyon on the Arizona/New Mexico Border just north of Mexico.

The Lost Dutchman Museum isn’t on the sign anymore. Now it is the Superstition Mountain Museum. The Superstition Mountain Museum tells the facts and the myths about the Old West including about the Lost Dutchman and the Lost Dutchman Mine. A little to the east of the Goldfield in Apache Junction, right on Apache Trail

South of Tucson, in an empty desert, the United States dug a hole in the ground to protect a Titan Missile. This costly hole is now home to the Titan Missile Museum. Almost seventy years later, the previously empty desert is occupied by numerous cities, and the retired missile is on display inside the museum.

It is all in the name. Arizona Sonora Desert Museum. Except it isn’t a museum. It is more like a zoo, but it isn’t really a zoo, it is a botanical garden with a zoo. It has some history like a museum but isn’t focused on history. It was unlike a museum in so many

Ancient Casa Grande ruins are south of one of the branches of the Gila River. Here the Hohokam people built an extensive network of canals, farms, and cities. In 1694 Father Kino, working his way along the trading routes toward modern-day Phoneix, first documented the ruins of a great four-story high adobe structure. Father Kino

Tucson is in the Sonoran Desert. It has been a relaxing visit to Tucson. Unlike the summer there is nicer weather this time of year. It is lots greener than the Mojave Desert. The Sonoran Desert has the Saguaro cactus (pronounced suh-war-oh) and lots of other vegetation, all with sharp parts. They don’t need signs

Organ Pipe National Monument is at the very south edge of Arizona. It is home to and dedicated to the very rare Organ Pipe cactus which only grows naturally in this and a few other locations in Mexico. In southern Arizona, the larger of the two varieties of the cactus thrives in Organ Pipe National

If you want to see Old Relics—like me—you should visit the Pima Air & Space Museum. It is in Tucson, just to the south of our campground on Davis Mothan Air Force Base. Davis Mothan Air Force Base is huge and home to the biggest military aircraft storage in the country. The museum is full

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

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

Like water on Mars water is rare. We are north of Yuma in a red desert just like Mars except there isn’t water like this on Mars. We have a nice lake behind the RV. Totally unexpected and so very interesting. Actually, there are lots of nice places north of Yuma and Lake Martinez is

We are in Yuma and have some great news to share. Everything is fine and we are moving along in a seemingly random manner. There is a method but without knowing the reasons it may seem like we don’t have a plan. Since you may not know our great news yet you may think we

I’ll get right to the point, why is Quartzsite such an attraction? Well for us it is friends. Each day we meet new friends. Every day we have seen old friends. Even with all the distractions of the Big Tent and an even bigger swap meet outside.  Everything here is for sale. There are multiple

Going to Quartzsite: I have often said that I didn’t understand the attraction of going to Quartzsite.  Half a million people descend on Quartzsite every January for what has to be the biggest RV event in the country.  It seems to me that it wasn’t planned that way, but instead, it just happened, and grew,

We are boondocking at a winery. This is not a country road in Arizona, but rather a vineyard. Behind our camp for the night are the grapes. Behind that pistachio trees. I did not figure on finding wine in Arizona, but here we are, camping in a vineyard. We are southwest of Willcox at least

Fort Huachuca isn’t known for snow. We can’t go any further south and stay in Arizona. Can’t really complain though. It is very pretty here at Fort Huachuca, pronounced Wa-Chu-ka. I don’t think we are getting an accurate representation of its typical beauty. Not much water nearby, so the kayaks are still on the car.

Everything is great here at Patagonia Lake State Park located about 20 miles northeast of Nogales AZ. A little too cold for the kayaks. May see snow before the weekend is over. As you can see, our site is quite unlevel we have about 8 inches of blocks under the front wheels. This would have

We departed Wahweap on March 29 heading to the Navajo National Monument.  Our route and target destination was Cortez Colorado (made it) with a stop at the Navajo National Monument.  It is a risky move to plan on camping at Navajo National Monument. The campground is small, tight and free. If a person knows about

Lake Powell is wonderful, even in early April. Navajo Reservation We lost cell phone service 20 miles west of Page, Arizona. (Thank you ATT) and didn’t get it back until we got to Colorado. At Page, I stopped at a Walmart to get some advice from locals. It seems that Verizon is the only carrier