Archive - 2014

Flagstaff, AZ: Getting Extreme!

Our latest adventure in the Lucky Charm was to Flagstaff in Northern Arizona for the celebration of son Max’s 15th birthday. Our family rocked the Flagstaff Extreme Adventure Course! FlagX, as it is affectionately referred to by all the cool kids, is a series of aerial obstacles that is set in tall Ponderosa Pine trees at 15-60 feet off the ground!  Some...

Bisbee, AZ: Miners and Cowboys and Soldiers, Oh My!!! (Part 1 of 2)

Spring Break, 2014:  The Lucky Charm was pointed to Southeastern Arizona to basically relive the 1860’s-1900’s through visits to Bisbee (mining history), Tombstone (western cowboy history), and Picacho Peak (Civil War re-enactment history).  Tally-Ho!!!! View of town from the Lucky Charm At its heyday around the turn of the century, Bisbee was...

Patagonia/Sonoita, AZ: “The Birds and The Bees” (well, really just Birds)

A rare long weekend without any commitments beckoned us to Patagonia Lake State Park in Southern Arizona, about 12 miles north of the Mexican border town of Nogales.  This is a beautiful, remote region with hilly grassland topography and scenery like nothing else in Arizona! The 250-acre Patagonia Lake and accompanying recreational opportunities are popular with...