Travel Tips & Adventures

Grab your passport!  We’re heading south to Mexico and the – sometimes – sleepy village of San Felipe. (more…)

One of the best parts about Bisbee is how easy it is to visit other, earlier, times.

For instance, want to see an old 1950s style diner? (more…)

Introduction to Bisbee, Arizona

As you drive into Bisbee from the north, you enter through a tunnel, as if you are going back in time.  To an extent, you are.  The town is nestled into a hillside and the feel is of the 1950s – or before. (more…)

Time to travel to smaller cities in Arizona!  This week, we’re heading to Tombstone and Bisbee, Arizona.  Tombstone proclaims itself, “The town too tough to die.”  Bisbee claims bragging rights to the first bar and stock exchange in the State of Arizona.

In general, smaller cities in Arizona have a character and individuality that you won’t find in the medium and large-sized cities.  You might see some familiar stores, but, for the most part, you don’t feel that you could be dropped down in any one of them and see all the same stores and buildings.  There are some unique buildings and a close-knit character to the people who live in these towns.

Leaving the interstate, I10, in Arizona south of Tucson at SR 80, you enter a much different environment than the built up cities in Arizona.  About an hour’s drive from Tucson, the terrain becomes more mountainous, with snow visible on the distant peaks.  Nothing but open land seems to exist for miles and miles.  Traveling with children, they are likely to begin the “Are we there yet?” litany.  There are few houses and what seems like an endless amount of nondescript brush.

Things get interesting as you hit the outskirts of Tombstone.   Suddenly, you see civilization with signs and buildings.  One sign proclaims where the “OK Corral” fight occurred.  We’ll visit Tombstone later this week.

Twenty-eight miles down the road from Tombstone is the quirky, artsy town of Bisbee, formerly a city dominated by copper mining.  We’ll visit a copper mine and show you the shops and sites.

So, join us this week and next for some fun in the Old West.

Also, take a look at our SHOP – see the “SHOP” button above and check out the images we’ve captured you can wear or use.

If you’ve ever had the urge to go hug a cactus – well, that would probably be a painful experience. Some of them do look cute and cuddly – in a rugged, western, prickly kind of way.  If the chance to see cacti up close makes you long for the Old West, Uncle Sam offers the Saguaro National Park, just outside of Tucson, Arizona.

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What do John Wayne, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Clint Eastwood, Paul Newman, Gene Wilder, Michael Landon, James Arness and Kenny Rogers have in common?

Yes, some of them are singers, but I don’t ever recall John Wayne belting out a tune in Las Vegas … (more…)

If you try something once, you’re just interested.  If you try something a second time and you still enjoy it, you know it’s a great thing.  So, I’m here to report that whale watching was even better the second time! (more…)

Go on a whale watch and it might change you for life.  Why? (more…)

One adventure that almost anyone can have anywhere in the world is “geocaching.” To the uninitiated, geocaching is using a Global Positioning System (GPS) to locate coordinates and find where someone has left a “treasure.” But, really, the fun is in the hunt. (more…)