Arizona
Christmas greenery looks a bit different in the desert. Merry Christmas from Tucson, Arizona. From another desert garden. And a hummingbird adds some sparkle. These images are my contribution to Travel Photo Thursday. You can see more contributions at Budget Travelers’ Sandbox. Have a wonderful holiday and I’ll see you in a couple of weeks. [...]
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Destination: Arizona Book: Arizona, Way Out West and Wacky, by Conrad J. Storad and Lynda Exley (2011) You’ll be hearing more at A Traveler’s Library in the coming year about the Centennial of my home state, Arizona, the Grand Canyon State. And New Mexico turns 100 in 2012, also, so I’ll talk about them a bit. [...]
I was invited to tour The Nest, at Rawhide in Chandler, Arizona before it opened to the public this month. In one section, you walk through a graveyard and are confronted with zombies who may be real and may be animatronics. I’m not staying around long enough to find out! This photo is part of [...]
I’ve been to a few scary places while traveling–most of them because I got lost and wandered where I should not be. But today I’m thinking about scary places that people plan travel to–in Phoenix, Mansfield Ohio, and New Orleans. Print PDF
Destination: The Western United States Book: Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West–One Meal at a Time by Stephen Fried (2010–New paperback edition in 2011) The reader gets more than his/her money’s worth with the fascinating book, Appetite for America. A biography, a history of the western expansion of [...]
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Destination: Navajo Reservation PodCast: IndieTravelPodCast Book: Quincy Tahoma: The Life and Legacy of a Navajo Artist If you want to know what I sound like–and what Craig Martin’s New Zealand accent sounds like (although he thinks I am the one with the accent), take a listen at Indie Travel PodCast. Craig interviewed me via Skype [...]
TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS I’m taking a bit of a break today so I can read FAMOUS AUTHOR’s latest book. That is because I am the volunteer driver for FAMOUS AUTHOR when he comes to the Tucson Festival of Books on March 12 and 13. You can meet him and a couple hundred other authors [...]
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(Photos in this post were taken by Vera Marie or Ken Badertscher on a 1990 raft trip through the Grand Canyon, scanned from prints.) Destination: Grand Canyon, USA Book: The Grand Adventure: A True Story of Survival and Determination on an Amazing River Journey into the Grand Canyon and Other Canyons of the West, by [...]
Happy 1-11-11. The Giveaway today moves over to another Blog….read on…. Destination: Diné Bikeyah (Navajo Country) Book: Tony Hillerman’s Landscape: On the Road with Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn, by Anne Hillerman, with Photographs by Don Strel (Nov. 2009) No book can be THE PERFECT BOOK, I suppose, but this one comes darned close for [...]
