After being closed for three months for the Covid Crisis the Pueblo Grande Museum is reopening in early July. I’m hoping to be asked back as a docent. It struck me as a good omen that the photo ...Read More
Yesterday afternoon I had a couple of times when I felt extreme fatigue and perhaps had a temperature. Our electronic thermometer has a low battery so we are using the hand on the forehead method. Thi...Read More
Remember if you feel thirsty or your urine is a dark color, drink more water. This was in the same restroom as the no diving sign from yesterdays post. It is very useful information for hikers in Phoe...Read More
If you visit the Pueblo Grande Museum when I am staffing the Artifact Cart you are required to “Ask me a Question.” Yesterday the best question was: “Why didn’t they just move somewhere nicer....Read More
Nurit and I took a road trip to Globe, Roosevelt Lake and The Tonto National Monument. The highlight of the ruin was that you could easily walk up to it and go inside. Which is definitely worth doing....Read More
Picacho Noun: Spanish word for peak. So the mountain near Tucson named “Picacho Peak” is redundant. Example: Picacho Peak is a famous picacho....Read More
In October we bushwhacked over to the structure we’d seen from the trail in September. We were able to confirmed that it is certainly a human made structure. Who made it and when is still an o...Read More
Papago Noun: Archaic word referring to the Tohono O’odham peoples of Southern Arizona. Try not to use this word. It is a derogatory Pima word meaning “bean eaters” and was picked by ...Read More
Petroglyph Noun: A petroglyph is rock art created by early men. Using hand held tools they removed part of the stone surface leaving patterns and images. Petroglyph is commonly used in the American ...Read More
Walking down the circumference trail at Piestewa on Sunday September 29 I saw this odd pile of stones. I have walked by this spot at least 100 times in the past two years. The original photo before I ...Read More
