Posts in Category: United States
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Chicago River Cruise – Architecture Abounds
This is my final post from the November 2024 road trip to Arizona and back and the way things are going in MAGA land, maybe the last ever from there. In the previous two posts we visited Gateway Arch National Park in St. Louis and then Abraham Lincoln’s home and tomb in Springfield, Illinois. After […]
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Lincoln Home and Tomb in Springfield, Illinois
As Alison and I continue our journey back to Nova Scotia from Arizona, we have just a few more stops to make. Our last one was at Gateway Arch National Park in St. Louis, Missouri. Our next will be in the Illinois state capital city of Springfield where we will have a guided tour of […]
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Gateway Arch National Park
In the last post from our November 2024 trip to Arizona Alison and I visited the frontier towns of Tombstone and Bisbee. It was our last day in the Grand Canyon State and it had indeed been a grand visit, but alas it was now time to head back to Canada. We started out the […]
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Tombstone – Deadliest Town in the West
This is my tenth and final post from a November, 2024 trip to Arizona and it will feature one of the most famous and deadly towns in the American West, the very aptly named Tombstone. In the last post we visited the truly amazing pinnacle rock formations of Chiricahua National Monument. Aside from being a […]
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Chiricahua National Monument – Geronimo’s Last Stand
This is my ninth post from a trip to Arizona that Alison and I took in November 2024, and the second to feature Arizona’s National Monuments. In the first we visited Walnut Canyon and Montezuma Castle National Monuments. In this post we’ll visit Chiricahua National Monument which is famous for its amazing rock pinnacles and […]
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Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
This is my eighth post from our November 2024 visit to Arizona and, given the title, one might be confused, as didn’t I just write one about a Sonoran Desert Museum in Phoenix? Yes I did, but that was the Desert Botanical Garden which specialized in the cacti and other plants native to the Sonoran […]
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Starr Pass GC – Coyote & Rattler Hole-by-Hole
After a delightful six day stay in Scottsdale where Alison and I played the Raptor Course at Grayhawk and the Saguaro Course at We-Ko-Pa it was time to move on to our next golf destination, the J.W.Marriott at Starr Pass in Tucson. We will be here for three nights and use it as a base […]
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Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
Our November 2024 trip to Arizona continues as we leave the Phoenix area after spending a week with friends in Scottsdale enjoying some golf and a great day trip to the Desert Botanical Garden. We are now headed to the Tucson area which neither Alison or I have ever visited, despite many previous trips to […]
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Desert Botanical Garden – A Phoenix Gem
Most people automatically associate the word ‘desert’ with two things – aridity and searing heat. The first is correct and any place with less than 10 inches (250 mm.) of rain annually is technically a desert. However, the second is not. Of fourteen named deserts in North America, only three are considered ‘hot’ – the […]