The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: Arizona

  • Impressions of Tucson, Arizona

    Where else can you say you’ve walked through a rattlesnake?

  • Tucson Food

    “Have you had a Sonoran Dog yet?” a friend asked, upon discovering that I was in Tucson. “What’s a Sonoran Dog?” I wish I’d never found out, because it has officially ruined me for other hot dogs. Seriously. I’ve seen the promised land. Nothing else will do. Imagine a hot dog wrapped in bacon. That…

  • Kartchner Caverns State Park, Arizona

    Some of the most gorgeous cave formations on the planet.

  • The Sonoran Desert: Here There Be Thorns

    Ah, but it’s a dry heat.

  • Biosphere 2

    Recently, I visited Tucson, Arizona for the first time. I met a lot of really great people, ate a lot of delicious food, and the desert is so amazing that these topics will call for additional blog posts, but I thought I’d start with the first thing we did on our first day, because it…

  • Have we Overstayed our Welcome?

    Aw, jeez, I need to stop surfing the internet. I just came across a website called Recent Natural Disasters, and it gives you all the reported disasters all over the world, 24 hours a day. I have a hard enough time avoiding my tendency to anthropomorphize nature, especially when it seems as though the planet…

  • A Real Cliffhanger

    Back in 2005, I took a trip out west with my boyfriend at the time to Canyon De Chelly because I had a fascination with all things Anasazi. The canyon is now a national monument, but people have been living there for almost 5,000 years. Currently about 40 Navajo families are in residence. As with…