What to Do

Watching Senior Bull Riders in the Cowboy Town of Wickenburg, Arizona

Just a short one hour drive from Phoenix, Arizona lies the quintessential cowboy town of Wickenburg, Arizona. After the 1848 Mexican American war, a great deal of the southwest became a part of the United States, and the lure of  “gold in them thar hills” became a magnet for adventurers to the area.  One such gold seeker was... Read More

A Day Trip to Tubac, Arizona

Tubac, Arizona makes for a wonderful day trip from Phoenix, Arizona. Tubac is 45 minutes south of Tucson, sits on a beautiful valley floor that peers onto 10,000 ft peaks, and also boasts a healthy, and growing artist colony. We left for Tubac at 7:00, on a Saturday morning, and arrived at our destination at 10:00.  The drive is a fairly... Read More

Arizona’s Tumacacori National Historical Park

Phoenix Day Trip – today we made a day trip to Tubac, and also visited nearby Tumacacori National Historical Park. Tubac is a popular Arizona destination because of its quaint, beautiful setting with 10,000 foot mountain views in the background, and its reputation for having a large collection of unique artist boutiques.  But that is... Read More

Flagstaff’s Sled Dog Races, Lost in Northern Arizona, and a Bedeviled GPS

Have you ever given a solemn utterance intended to invoke a supernatural power to inflict harm on an inanimate object?  In other words, have you ever cursed out a GPS? In the last leg of our recent trip to Flagstaff,  I am ashamed to admit,  I displayed a momentary intensity that perhaps bordered on madness, as our GPS had us abandoned... Read More

A Visit to the Museum of Northern Arizona

During our visit to Flagstaff’s 24th Annual Winterfest, we planned a visit to the Museum of Northern Arizona. As you will quickly learn, if you join us as a subscriber of our website, we love to visit museums, and are great lovers of looking at the world through other people’s eyes. As we walked into the museum, we were greeted... Read More

A Winter’s Drive to Flagstaff, Arizona

Today we made our journey up the mountain to Flagstaff.  When we left Scottsdale, at 9:00 a.m., it was 60º, and when we made it to Flagstaff, two hours later, it was 31º. As we made our climb we saw patches of snow at 5,000 feet, deep snow at 6,000 feet, and gobs of snow in Flagstaff at 7,000 feet. The photograph above is from Arizona’s... Read More

Itinerary: Flagstaff’s 24th Annual Winterfest

This weekend we have planned the maiden journey for The Roaming Boomers travel and adventure website. We live in North Scottsdale with an altitude of roughly 2,100 ft, and enjoy winter weather that is typically sunny, and produces highs of 70º each day.  Flagstaff, on the other hand, sits at roughly 7,000 ft, and is currently blanketed with... Read More

Visiting Arizona's Montezuma Castle

Another feature of our new website will be visiting areas outside of the Phoenix valley. Arizona, with its arid climate,  has many wonderful places of antiquity to visit that have been remarkably preserved. A wonderful place to visit, and a short hop off the I-17 is Montezuma’s Castle. From the National Park Service website: “On... Read More