Summer hit hard at the end of May in Phoenix … a little cool-water therapy was in order! And … our new inflatable kayak (my 50th birthday present!) needed a test run. Would it hold air IN? Would it hold water OUT? Happy to report no tragedies, and lots of paddling fun! Our favorite camping buddy, Miss Kate, and her little dog...
Most people have a passing knowledge of joshua tree plants from the band U2’s famous album cover, The Joshua Tree (back when music was procured via an “LP” instead of a “download”). A glance at that album cover shows one spindly little orphan in the background, but a day-trip to Joshua Tree National Park yielded 792,000 acres of...
It’s not often you can be in a County Park, State Park, and National Park all within the same 24 hours … but we did it, on a recent trip to Tucson, Arizona! With breathtaking sunsets and outdoor recreation galore, we marveled that we had not visited this area before! We had multiple reasons for this trip. One is that we got a new (to us)...
The Lucky Charm’s first 2017 road trip took us to the beautiful shores of Lake Havasu and the Colorado River in Eastern Arizona. Destination: 7th Annual Havasu Balloon Festival and Fair! We knew the Lucky Charm would be close to the action with this trip, but no idea THIS close! During the mass ascensions, balloons lifted of at roughly the same time all over the city...