All Hail! The Arizona Renaissance Festival
For the past twelve years (give or take a year or two), I've been driving past the "Renaissance Festival" sign...
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alone on Ajo Mountain
Across the desolate highway is a dirt road with a faded sign that leads to Ajo Mountain. The wanderer...
The Pickin’ in the Pines Festival 2016
For three glorious days up in the cool pines of Flagstaff, Arizona, you can hear some of the greatest bluegrass...
Pickin’ in the Pines – the camping experience
Just outside the town of Flagstaff, Arizona, there is a little festival that happens each year in September. People...
lost on the lost goldmine trail, but I’m alright…
Winter in Arizona is full of blue skies and temperatures in the seventies for the month of February, and that's...
Kenny Wayne Shepherd
When the sixteen year old guitar prodigy first came onto the airwaves, I was in my late twenties. I think...
camping at Bonito
The large ponderosa pines fill his nostrils as he makes his way down the winding road. Highway sounds fade away,...
Organ Pipe Cactus
It was just an ordinary brown highway sign along Interstate 8. "Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument - 75 miles"...
The Superstitions
"Rainstorms and high winds are predicted all weekend...." The Superstitions mountains at the East end of the Phoenix valley...
Chinese Acrobats
The Chinese have, for as long as I can remember, been at the top of the competition in sports such...
Lights of the World
Going back to the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC to AD 25), the Chinese have celebrated a Lantern Festival each...
Desert View Watchtower
I cross the Eastern entrance to the Grand Canyon, and come across a sign for the Desert View Watchtower. It's...