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Sunday, November 24th – Day 10 of my trip, and the last full day away from home. The warm sun was gone but I had a day and a half to spend with family. Neither Andrea nor I were pleased to see this… …but she suggested that we head...

Saturday, November 23rd – time to go home. Well, not quite home for me – I’d spend tow nights in Calgary with my kids and their families. The first photo shows our view from the third floor of the Marriott at 07:25. Our flight didn’t leave until 12:18 but...

The Pima Air & Space Museum is one of the largest non-government funded aviation and space museums in the world, with over 400 aircraft spread over 80 acres, with six large hangars. They recommend 3-4 hours for a visit, but after 2 hours and 160 photos I was totally...

We’ve reached our final full day in Arizona – Friday, November 22nd. Our time in Tucson was split between the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and the Pima Air & Space Museum, then we drove to our hotel near the Phoenix airport. Before leaving the Hotel McCoy, Andrea and I walked...

It’s now the afternoon of Thursday, November 21st. This is the 7th day of my trip and our 5th of 6 full days in Arizona. We drove from Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument to Saguaro National Park West where we did an exploratory drive, then to our motel in...

Back on November 28, I mentioned that although I thought that our drive to Oatman would be the highlight of the trip, we had another day that equalled it. This was that day, and it’s taking three posts to tell you about it (this is the second). See an...

Ajo was a surprise to me. I had never heard of it, and it didn’t look like much from a quick search while I was planning this trip. But I wish I had had 3 days to explore, because it’s got a fascinating history and the surrounding country has...

This post describes our drive from Yuma to Ajo, with a detour to the Painted Rock Petroglyph Site, on Wednesday, November 20th. See an interactive map of the basic route here. When we shot the first photo at 11:23 (I was driving so Andrea shot it), we were on...

Here we are at Day 6 of the trip – Wednesday, November 20th. Our day began at the Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park, then we drove 160 miles to Ajo for the night. I was going to do the entire day in one post, but it got too...

On Tuesday, November 19th, my daughter and I visited the Hi Jolly Cemetery at Quartzsite, then made the easy 85-mile drive to Yuma, where we visited the grave of one of the Yukon’s best-known early characters, “Arizona Charlie” Meadows. See an interactive map of the basic route here. At...