Elon Musk, your room is ready now
Back when rocket guy and space-voyager-wannabe, Elon Musk, was a still a teenager rattling around South Africa, a group of Americans decided to build a …
Category: Near Tucson
Lunch with Joy at the oldest cantina in Arizona
[Note: part of this post was originally published in April 2019] My sister Joy, who lives south of Tucson, suggested–actually insisted–that we go to a …
Javelina Madness at the Tubac art festival
The slogan for the tiny village (pop.1190) of Tubac, Arizona is “Where Art and History Meet”. Maybe a better slogan would be where art and …
Wild horses and braying burros for sale
The very controversial Bureau of Land Management, more commonly known in the West as the BLM, held an equally controversial sale of wild horses and …
Best French fries, a pretty good milkshake followed by a search by the Border Patrol
On my way south of Tucson to visit the Tumacacori Historical National Park I noticed a large Border Patrol checkpoint spanning the northbound lanes of …