Arizona

Wickenburg, AZ: Party in the Desert

It was time to (literally) dust off our cowboy hats and locate the pointy toe boots in the back of the closet. We attended a wonderful, down-home-style country music festival in Wickenburg, Arizona this past weekend. It was perfectly monikered as “Party in the Desert.” Yee-haw...

Tubac, AZ: The Poor Man’s Santa Fe

We journeyed to far southern Arizona, indeed just 30 miles shy of the Mexican border, to explore Tubac AZ, founded 1752, a historic/bohemian/artsy community “where art and history meet” but which we prompted re-tagged as “The Poor Man’s Santa Fe.” Here we...

McDowell Mountains Regional Park, AZ

We haven’t traveled in the RV since we returned from the Eastern Sierras of California in September, 2023. During that drought, we’ve been downsizing my 82-year-old parents from a huge house located an hour away, to a reasonably-sized house in our very own neighborhood. So...

Arizona: Southwest by Southeast

Heading back to Arizona from California, the last two stops of our 3-week trip were in Yuma (far southwestern corner); and Sierra Vista (far southeastern corner), where Philip was to participate in a three-day bike touring event. It was fun to be a part of the first-ever, inaugural...

Sticking Close To Home: Arizona Mini-Adventures

January and February had the three of us staying close to home, with a smattering of mini-adventures right here in good ole Arizona. We survived a terrible two-week rumble with Covid over the holidays, but that’s not why we’re staying “safer at home.” Instead...

Parker, AZ: What We Won’t Do For A Cold Beer

Sometimes our RV trips have lofty aspirations:  hiking at Mount Rainier, seeing wild bison in Custer, camping at a wild tiger sanctuary in Arkansas.  Other times, our motivations are simpler:  get a cold beer at a weird place.  Such was the case in Parker, Arizona! The...