Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

I insist that you visit the Sonoran Desert Museum if you are ever in Tucson.

Agua Caliente Park

Tucson’s Agua Caliente Park is recovering well after the fire.

Friends in Phoenix

Visiting with friends, and following friends’ recommendations, brought us to some pretty neat experiences.

Hidden Cove in Holbrook

By following the signs, you get to the right places.

Petrified Forest National Park

Amazing landscapes, and yes, petrified wood.

Moab and Route 66

I was thrilled to be in magnificent desert landscapes that reminded me of a favourite animated movie.

Into Utah

Day Two of driving was still all about putting more miles behind me, and not taking time to sightsee.

Wadi Rum

I was especially looking forward to our time in this desert, and pleased that Nashat had arranged for us to stay two nights. I woke up very early and refreshed this morning, and went out into the desert with my camera in time to take sunrise photos. It was not an original thought, and several other […]

More castles, a miracle, and Petra at night

We left Amman today and headed south. In no time we had left the greener hills of the north and saw instead wide, flat vistas of dry desert rock. It looked as though the land was farmed, because a lot of it was plowed. We couldn’t see anything growing, however, and Nashat wasn’t sure what […]

Rendezvous in Bend

One of Tara’s summer classes this term was geology field camp. Oregon State University has a great geology program, and Tara has field trips as part of a class multiple times a year. But field camp is when the entire class is on location. This latest class was 5 weeks out in the desert of […]