Tag: arizona

Though I’ve only been back in the Southwest for a few months, I lived in Tucson for eight years as a graduate student and learned to get pretty creative …

I knew I should have left earlier. I knew it as soon as I pulled out of the driveway. The sun was already waning, and it wasn’t even 5 …

The first thing I notice is that Juan Wayne, the resident tortoise, is missing. There’s a sign propped up next to the guestbook in the shared kitchen describing his …

When I think about the Southwest, where I lived for eight years, I think of a few things: warm flour tortillas, soaring mountains, and javelinas (they’re peccaries, not pigs!). …

My friend, Bianca, and I planned to go on a grand adventure. At first we hoped it would be hiking to the top of Mount Whitney, the highest point …

The American southwest: a land of high desert, rushing river, Native tribes, cowboys, ranchers, city dwellers, deep canyons, quiet forest,  and high mountains The American southwest is a landscape that …

Las Posadas: in Spanish, those words mean the inns. They have also become the name for events which are part of the celebration of Advent and Christmas in many …

‘The beer scene round here has been growing like crazy,’ says Matt Trethewey of the Beer Research Institute brewpub in Mesa, Arizona. ‘We opened at the end of November …

I’m enthralled. In a display case in front of me is the last guitar Elvis Presley ever played on stage. It’s a Martin D-28 and he used it at …

Why did the chicken cross the road? Well, what’s more interesting is where the chicken crossed the road. I’ve just finished eating hash browns to die for at Matt’s …

The ranger on duty at the Painted Desert Visitor Center is really, really, really into petrified trees. He has worked at the Petrified Forest National Park for over 10 …

Let me tell you a little bit about vortexes. See that juniper tree over there, the way the branches literally spin around in an axial twist, aching to follow …