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Tag: Arizona

Early designs only one of which endured

One of the shortest lived designs on display at the Pima Air and Space Museum has to be the paper … More

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Eclectic collection

As alluded to in the posts about the aeroplane boneyard at Davis-Monthan AFB, I also visited the Pima Air and … More

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Boneyard part 2

Part of the coach tour through Davis-Monthan AFB includes the journey along ‘celebrity way’ on which a number of famous … More

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Boneyard

Anyone who knows the attractions around Tucson and has read this blog for a bit will have been expecting this post. … More

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Ancient History discovered in my lifetime

Some friends suggested I visited another AZ State Park while in the south of the state and on my way … More

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Fading Glory

Douglas is one of the most southerly towns in Arizona, just a few miles from the border with Mexico.  On … More

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Copper Queen

Travelling south from Tombstone, I passed through Bisbee.  It is an old mining town which now feels more like an … More

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Shootout

One of the most famous shoot-outs was at the OK Corral between the Earp and the Clanton factions in Tombstone, … More

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Montrose Pools

Catalina State Park is between the Biosphere 2 and Tucson.  Having enjoyed my hike in Picacho Peak State Park, I … More

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Inside the Biosphere 2

There are five separate biomes in the biosphere – Rainforest, Ocean, Mangroves, Savannah and Desert.  We walked through each and … More

Arizona, biosphere 2, museum, science, travel, US, USA

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