Bub’s 75th Birthday Trip! We are on the road and I will be posting each leg of the trip in a separate post! As I do that, I’ll update with a link on this page, so you can see all…

We are so fortunate in Tucson to be the site of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. Over the Tucson Mountains, on 98 acres, you’ll find a zoo, botanical garden, art gallery, natural history museum, and aquarium all wrapped into one. It…

Our new Travel IDs will arrive in about a week. Yes, I know we don’t need them until 2020. And, I know I could start to use my passport for domestic flights. A driver’s license is certainly easier, though, and…

A two hour drive from Tucson, Wilcox is a fun and easy day trip over Texas Canyon and east across I-10. Celebrating Cinqo de Mayo a little late with a large margarita began our lunch at La Unica. We’d never…

Hawaii has been identified as the happiest state in the US and the most-mentioned destination for those with bucket lists of places to visit.  So… if you’d love to go but think you can’t afford Hawaii, get over it! It is possible to have…

Oh my Gosh!!!!!! Gourmet hand-crafted chocolate. There are 25 different Bon Bons made using what they call a “Monsoon Blend” of bean-to-bar chocolate, which is 69% dark chocolate. Their cocoa beans come from Ecuador, Madagascar, and Uganda This secret Tucson…

For a perfect day trip from Tucson (or Phoenix), you’ll be delighted if you visit The Boyce Thompson Arbetoreum. Sitting on 392 acres of lush desert just south of the town of Superior, the trails and plantings were begun in…

The newest addition from the famous Tucson El Charro family, now part of Flores Concepts, Charro del Rey has opened in downtown Tucson. In a 100-year-old building next door to Charro Steak, the interior exudes charm. Adding to the trendy…

My birthday week allowed me to dine at four different Tucson Restaurants with friends and family. What a wonderfully yummy week! Bub and I enjoyed the $50 Filet Mignon and Lobster that Flemings features every Monday night. The service is…

What a lucky grandma I am! Lily and I are having lunch together once a month. She turned 17 last fall. Busy as a junior in high school and working at Panera, she is making time for us to spend…