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Snow, Snow, Snow and more Snow

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Travel Photo Thursday

Well, I actually had something else in mind, but in case you didn’t hear, we had a blizzard in Tucson yesterday, so I just had to post a few snow pictures.

From the GREAT Tucson Blizzard of 2013:

Here’s my Facebook status from yesterday afternoon:

Well, the great Tucson blizzard of ’13 is finally over. Thank GOD we had stocked up on bottled water and Pringles and instant cocoa. Because the snow fell for TWO HOURS! And it piled up to — well it actually didn’t pile up–it melted–but that white stuff kept falling down and it COULD have piled up to–an inch, at least. But the WORST part is–it is going to be at LEAST SIX DAYS before the temperature gets over the 60’s and back in the 70’s. I’m telling you–a lot of tans are going to suffer.

And here’s what it looked like. Continue reading Snow, Snow, Snow and more Snow →

Only 100 Years, Arizona?

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Celebrating Centennial


Destination: Navajo Reservation, Ganado, Arizona

Book: Navajos Wear Nikes: A Reservation Life by Jim Kristofic (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 at a Centennial Celebration at the University of Arizona in Tucson demonstrates the point.  The President of the University welcomed the crowd and pointed out that the University of Arizona had been here 27 years before Arizona became a state. Then the Mayor of Tucson responded by saying that the city of Tucson had been chartered 7 years before the University was founded.

The next speaker, Ophelia Zapada, a Tohono O’odham (formerly known as Pima Indian) poet and linguist spoke next.  She said, “I couldn’t help overhearing our distinguished speakers talking about how long the University and the city have been here….”  She was interrupted by a roar of laughter from the crowd which made it unnecessary for her to make her point that there were people here long, long before any of our own short measures of history.

Of the many American Indian tribes in Arizona, the Navajo is the largest, inhabiting a land bigger than West Virginia, spreading over parts of Arizona and New Mexico. This book focuses on the Navajo. Continue reading Only 100 Years, Arizona? →

I can talk, too.

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Destination: Navajo Reservation

PodCast: IndieTravelPodCast

Book: Quincy Tahoma: The Life and Legacy of a Navajo Artist

If you want to know what I sound like–and what Craig Martin’s New Zealand accent sounds like (although he thinks I am the one with the accent), take a listen at Indie Travel PodCast. Craig interviewed me via Skype about traveling on the Navajo Reservation, and let me bring up our book, Quincy Tahoma: The Life and Legacy of a Navajo Artist. (Which you can buy by clicking on that box over there on the right.)