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TRAVEL PHOTO THURSDAY I would never want to dismiss the beauty of the other Western states, particularly my own–Arizona– but certainly high on my list of favorite Western road trips is southern Utah with its cluster of National Parks and Monuments protecting some pretty spectacular landscape. This series of photos reminds me that although I [...]
PDF Western Road Trip As we roam through the Western United States in the next few weeks, we will not necessarily be following a logical progression on the map, but today’s trip from Arizona- Utah to Nevada makes sense on the map. The literature, however, could not be more different than the photography book, Plateaus and [...]
Western Road Trip I’m starting this mini-road trip through the Western United States with a look at some of the unusual geography that draws road-trippers and hikers to northern Arizona and southern Utah. In the next couple of weeks we’ll look at a variety of books that reflect on the West. Destination: Arizona and Utah [...]
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Are you booking your travel to Arizona for March, to see the wildflowers? Need more excuses? March 3 and 4 the Heard Museum in Phoenix hosts one of the largest Indian Art Fairs in the country. Besides every form of art–and only the best, because it is a juried show–there will be performances and book [...]
Celebrating Centennial Destination: Navajo Reservation, Ganado, Arizona Book: Navajos Wear Nikes: A Reservation Life by Jim Kristofic (NEW 2011. Chosen as a Top Pick in the Southwest Books of the Year, 2011.) It is impossible to talk about Arizona’s history without referring to some of the first people who inhabited this land. A memorable moment [...]
Pet Travel Thursday By Pamela Webster NOTE: Pamela is our new Pet Travel expert. You can learn more about her on our Contributor’s Page and next month, we’ll be interviewing Pamela so you can get better acquainted as she starts her new gig here at A Traveler’s Library. Welcome, Pam!! Destination: San Francisco, CA Movie: [...]
Celebrating Centennial: Travel Photo Thursday I love to confound people by describing the Sonoran Desert of Southern Arizona as “lush”. They give me an odd look. Isn’t that an oxymoron? Not here it isn’t . The Sonoran Desert fits the description of Desert because of its aridity, but on the other hand, a multitude [...]
Celebrating Arizona’s Centennial Two brand new books and one from last year, celebrate some of the women who helped build Arizona in the past 100 years, and the years when it was a Territory. Women were celebrated in Arizona from the beginning. Arizona wrote women’s suffrage into their constitution, making it one of the first [...]
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Celebrating Centennial ARIZONA, STATE OF ROMANCE Arizona celebrates the centennial of its statehood on February 14, because one hundred years ago a lovesick rancher took a detour to see his sweetheart. The story may not be true, but the romance is undeniable. This is the true part. For nearly twenty years, the citizens of Arizona [...]
