Posts in Tag: Arizona Attractions
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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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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 […]
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Walnut Canyon & Montezuma Castle
A few years ago Alison and I attended the SATW conference in El Paso and after it was over, spent a couple of weeks exploring as many of New Mexico’s national parks and monuments as we could. These included the well known sites of Carlsbad Cavern N.P. and White Sands and the hard to get […]
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Grand Canyon Adventure
It had been many decades since my last visit to the Grand Canyon and Alison had never been, so on somewhat of a whim, we packed up our brand new Macan and headed straight from Nova Scotia to northern Arizona, a drive of some six days going all out with no real sightseeing stops on […]