In search of the continuous road trip
There’s no question about the type of vehicle you should take on the Apache Trail. It should be a 4-wheel drive, high clearance, manly type of machine. But in a pinch, a Toyota Sienna will do. The road starts out tame and paved, but then …
Lost Dutchman State Park must have a guardian angel. Or not – it has been threatened with permanent closure at least twice since 2002 due to budget shortfalls. It seems like an expensive place to run. The ratio of staff/workers to visitors is at least …
I like wine…good, expensive wine. I am a little bit of a wine snob. So now that we’re on a strict budget, I’ve made it my mission to find decent, cheap wine that is palatable to this little snob. Because we don’t have reliable refrigeration …
Catalina, Catalina, Catalina. More posts about Catalina? Enough already! Why the obsession with this tiny range of peaks? If it isn’t obvious already, you’ll just have to see for yourself. And if you do get here, be sure to make the Catalina Highway one of …
Usually, when you’re on vacation, you’ve got to stick to a schedule. You have to move on to get to that next reservation, even if you haven’t fully explored your current location. I’ve always hated this. One of our biggest luxuries now is having the …
After spending a week here, I finally get it. I finally understand why people live in southern Arizona. People suffer through the few burning months of summer just like northerners suffer through six months of winter – because the rest of the year is amazing. …
Somehow it happened: the third Thursday of November passed us by and we didn’t remember Beaujolais Nouveau. To paraphrase our friend Ben: this never would have happened if we were in Chicago! To placate the French gods, we had a bottle last night along with …
We had hoped to create and share some amazing campstove recipes with you, but so far we’re having a tough time cooking anything but the most basic food. Don’t worry, Moms, we are eating, but it’s the kind of food we made in college – …
There’s just something about you, Bisbee. You are unapologetically insane. You’re ramshackle, you’re rough around the edges, and if we’re not careful, you might just pitch us down your hillsides or into your mines. You remind us of the steeper, rougher parts of Paris. Paul …
Do you have guts of steel? Can you stand on the edge of a cliff without getting dizzy? Do you love to drive on challenging roads? Do you have an innate hatred of guardrails and center stripes? If you answered yes to all of these …
FFFZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZTTTT! An F-15 screams overhead, followed by another. They rapidly climb, then nosedive, looping, banking, firing smoke bombs at each other in a mock dog-fight. We’re not watching some airshow. We’re in the middle of White Sands National Monument, which is in the middle of …
Well, we survived a blizzard, and we survived Albuquerque. Why not a haboob? In haboob terms, this one wasn’t too bad, but it was our first. We’re in the desert in New Mexico and all Paul could think about while driving was the red dot …