Arizona

>> We decided to take Millie to Mount Lemmon in the Santa Catalina Mountains last week to cool off. It has been 109F /43C almost every day and going up …

In and around Tucson and the Sonoran Deserts there are hundreds of thousands of Saguaro Cacti, Arizona’s state flower. Being surrounded by these gigantic cacti every day still feels very …

  The desert landscape and clear skies make for such beautiful sunsets here in Tucson.  Normally Dani can’t help but stop and get shots with a cactus or little lizard …

Last weekend, I went to a PowWow, the traditional gathering of Native American tribes – a gathering filled with traditional dances, dresses and Native American culture!

Tombstone’s Boothill Graveyard is one of the few cemeteries that will actually make you laugh – many of the tombstones, like Mr. Heath’s here in our Polaroid, include not only when, but the dirty details of how they died.

The past week has been an exciting travel week: I’ve been road tripping around Southern Arizona, hiking in National Parks and delving into the Old West!

Antelope Canyon is a destination that has exploded in popularity over the past few years – and rightly so. This canyon in Arizona is, despite its rather small size, one …

Dani’s latest photo essay of the mighty saguaros in southern Arizona…

We have compiled a list of our favorite places in Tucson – what to see, where to eat, where to sleep and some ideas for trips out of town.

During our road trip through Northern Arizona our path crossed the famous ‘Mother Road’, Route 66, several times. On our last day we decided to drive the section of Route 66 from Seligman to Kingman, one of the few in-tact segments of the highway which originally stretched from Chicago to Los Angeles. On the way we found numerous original gas stations, motels, road side shops with classic 50s & 60s cars out front and other Route 66 memorabilia which awakens the nostalgia of the Great American Road Trip from the Midwest to the Pacific Coast.