Brown Mountain Loop Trail | Tucson Mountain Park | Hiking Antelope Peak | Arizona Trail | December 2023 Besides spending lots of time with friends around Tucson, we wanted to take some of our time in Arizona to visit more places we had never been, and spend time away from the city. As much as…
As is tradition for this time of year, I’ve been reflecting lately on 2023, and how certain events of years past have led up to who we are now. Recently I recalled how in high school (and probably college), Curtis used to wear a shirt that read, “Why be normal?” It was kind of a…
A Week in Tucson Visiting Friends & Hiking | Colossal Cave Mountain Park | Saguaro National Park | Tumamoc Hill | December 2023 For this trip, we planned to spend at least a week around the Tucson area, which would hopefully be enough time to see as many friends as we could and revisit some…
Hiking & Camping in Ironwood Forest National Monument | Tucson, AZ | December 2023 While everyone we stayed with insisted that we could stay ‘as long as want’, and that we are ‘always welcome’, Midwest hospitality still runs through our veins and we felt we had to break up our visits to avoid overstaying our…
Visiting Tumacacori National Monument | Hiking the Anza Trail from Tubac to Tumacacori | December 2023 For our time in Arizona this month, we obviously wanted to spend time with friends and family around Tucson and revisit some favorite places, but I also had a short list of places that I wanted to visit that…
Hiking in Coronado National Memorial | December 2023 We were in a bit of a rush to get to Tucson due to the prospect of going on a backpacking trip along a portion of the Arizona Trail with Mitch, Alex, and Henry – our friends in Tucson. Unfortunately, the trip had to be canceled due…