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Fish Tacos Best on Earth
Tulum has two faces. There is the Hotel Zone which is a strip of bars, restaurants, hotels,and retail shops along the main road running along the beach all the way south to a biosphere nature preserve called Sian Kian. Then there is the Mexican town of...
Blue Suede Shoes Impersonating Elvis
Imitation is, a famous wit once explained, the greatest form of flattery. Elvis Presley was a star and shone bright in Tinseltown for decades. In his Elvis impersonator show, Danny Vernon croons, tells jokes, moves his hips, loves on the audience. ...
Elton on a palm tree simple music
Elton might not approve, but a cheap radio, playing one of his yesteryear hits, provides music at the Rincon RV Resort Farmer's Market. Having the same feeling as watching a John Wayne movie on a TNT movie night, I listen to Elton belt out his early...
Shuffleboard Masters On the front court
Shuffleboard is more cut throat than it appears. Before these players take a shot, they consult, put chalk on their hands,look at the weather, visualize their stride. You are the one responsible for propelling your disc down a slick, treacherous court....
Frosty’s Diner On the Rincon Railroad
The Rincon Railroad is for kids at heart. Around the corner from the front office, the railroad town of Rincon has been created. On certain days of the week, on a strict schedule, railroad caps are donned, engine whistles toot, and trains roll around...
Border Check Between Nogales and Tucson
We have borders. Our skin is our closest border, a barrier that keeps bacteria and viruses out, gives us our particular shape and size, allows us to be flexible and move with agility. Our minds have borders that allow us to go as far as we think we can....
Tubac Art Festival February 10, 2017
Art flourishes in the desert. At the Tubac Art Festival, streets are closed to traffic, excepting horse drawn wagons, and tents are being set up while parking attendants put on their lime colored jackets and sunscreen. Two of the parking lots are...
Holy Water San Xavier Mission - Tucson
After Spanish explorers conquered Central and South America, they scoured the present states of Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, California, Utah and Nevada searching for lost cities of gold. Motivated by faith, Spanish priests established missions for the...
Search and Rescue Sikorski Utility Helicopter
Outside Hanger One at the Pima Aircraft Museum, in a dirt field, helicopters, prehistoric looking birds with rotating wings, are on display. This Sikorski Utility helicopter was used at U.S. Coast Guard search and rescue stations in the seventies. On...
Bomb’s Away Pima Air Museum, Tucson, Arizona
The Pima Air Museum is an equal opportunity museum. It has fighter planes, bombers, helicopters, experimental dreams, cargo planes, There are hangers filled with donated airplanes of every vintage, staffed with volunteers, and a large open field where...
Chili Fundraiser 450 happy diners
We spend lots of time waiting in our lives. We wait to be born and wait to be buried, wait to graduate, wait to raise kids, pay off a mortgage, retire, serve and be served,break par, get money back on our taxes. If we are lucky the line keeps...
jackalope Picacho Peak Plaza
Interstate 10 runs through Tucson and angles northwest to Phoenix. Once you leave Tucson, the first spot of interest, higher than rabbit's ears, is Picacho Peak. This peak is actually a group of peaks ringed by saquaros. For miles surrounding this...
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