Originally Posted by Jim B.

Yah, I rather liked the East side of Tucson. Especially when snow covered the Saguaro cacti!

Going up to Mt Lemon to esape the July Tucson heat was always a treat. o "valley fever" issues up there either.

I always loved driving north from Phoenix up through the Black Canyon to Flag.

Sedona was especially beautiful, but it reminded me a lot of Carmel, at least the CBD part - it seemed too "precious", like it knew what it was...

The old territorial capitol, was pretty neat. I almost moved there in the late1980's. But I hear it was about to be "discovered"- with the predictable attendant results....

The Arizonans I knew as friends, all liked to vacation in Pinetop or hop over to San Diego for their "ocean fix", a surprisingly quick straight shot West on 8. I have been meaning to get down to Rocky Point in Mexico, across the southern border, Puerto Peñasco is supposed to be really fun and pretty affordable and safe too.