If there is one thing you can always count on it’s a fancy chocolate shop in every tourist town you visit. Outside the south rim of Grand Canyon National Park that shop is called The Grand Canyon Chocolate Factory. This shop has a little bit of everything so whether your craving salty or sweet you […]
As soon as you open the door to Apple Annie’s Country Store the delicious smell of fresh baked bread and pies hits you and makes it almost impossible to walk away. All of the pies and breads they sell are made from scratch daily in the store. They also make their own apple butter […]
Every tourist town you visit has it in at least one of its shops. It looks delicious every time we see it. Every time we talk ourselves out of buying it though because we’re cheap and it’s always so expensive. What am I talking about…well fudge of course. That delicious delicacy of sugary goodness […]
While driving to the Grand Canyon we took a quick detour to snap a pic of the world’s largest Kokopelli. The statue stands 32 feet tall and sits atop a six-foot base stating it is the “World’s Largest Kokopelli”. It’s made of welded steel and weighs approximately five and one-half tons. It was created […]
So we were just driving around town running errands when we stopped at a light and I looked over and saw a dino just chillin’ on the corner! At the McDonald’s on the corner of East Grant Road and East Tanque Verde Road in Tucson, Arizona stands a realistic, life-size statute of a Tyrannosaurus […]
The Freeman Homestead Nature Trail in the Saguaro National Park East is an easy 1 mile loop that takes you to the site of an old homestead foundation. In 1933, Stafford Freeman and his family made a 640 acre claim in the foothills of the Rincon Mountains using the Homestead Act. He built a three […]
The Loma Verde Loop trail in Saguaro National Park East is 3.8 miles long and only has 60 feet of elevation gain. To start this easy trek through the calming desert landscape hit up the Loma Verde trailhead located off the Cactus Forest Scenic Loop Drive. Head north through a grove of mature mesquite […]
The Mica View trail can be found at Saguaro National Park East. This is a pet friendly and wheelchair accessible trail. The section of the trail between Mica View Picnic Area and Broadway trailhead has a hard surface mixture that is suitable for wheelchairs to use. It is a total of 0.7 miles between […]
The Desert Ecology trail at Saguaro National Park East is a paved 1/4 mile roundtrip loop and will take less than 15 minutes to hike. The trailhead is located off the Cactus Forest Scenic Loop Drive. This easy stroll through the desert beside Javelina Wash is wheelchair accessible and one of only two trails […]
So more than once I’ve seen astronaut ice cream while out and about and always wondered if the dehydrated stuff actually tasted like ice cream. After our tour of the Titan Missile Museum I headed to the gift shop to purchase my obligatory magnet and post card. While making the very important decision of […]
