Is Your State Closing Its Rest Areas?
As we have been traveling around the State of Arizona, we have noticed that some of the state’s rest areas have been closed. As it turns out, 13 out of 18 of the state’s rest area have been closed. From the Arizona Department of Transportation: “The most immediate signs of ADOT’s actions to weather the [...]
A Visit to the Scottsdale Arabian Horse Show
We made our first visit to the Scottsdale Arabian Horse Show last year, and we had no idea how beautiful these Arabian horses were. As we were watching this year’s show, the announcer was instructing us that the Arabian horse is known for it distinctive head shape (it looks like a sea horse to me), its long flowing, high tail carriage, their high spirit, and their marble-hard bone structure.
2010 North America Airport Satisfaction Study by J.D. Power
Phoenix Sky Harbor airport, the Roaming Boomers home airport, snagged the #5 spot with “accessibility” being it only drawback.
A Visit to The Phoenix Symphony
When this first piece finished, I was left with a stunning example of the professionalism, and the certain skill of these musicians. I was very impressed with the clarity, and oneness of sound during some of the lighting fast arpeggios displayed in the string section. A lesser orchestra would have made certain mud of these sections. Bravo!
Airlines Adding More Time to Their Scheduled Flight Times
According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, airlines are adding more time to their scheduled flight times: “Across the airline industry, carriers have been adding minutes to “block times”—the scheduled durations—baking delays into trips so that late flights officially arrive “on-time” and operations run better because flights pull into gates more often on schedule. [...]
Watching Senior Bull Riders in the Cowboy Town of Wickenburg, Arizona
We decided, having never been to a rodeo, that a rodeo might be a lot of fun. When we arrived, we were amazed to see these 40, 50, and even 60 year old men willingly riding bucking broncos, and most amazingly, torturing themselves on the back of a raging bull!
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 [...]
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 [...]
Coming Soon – The Roaming Boomers Visit the Phoenix Symphony
This Thursday, The Roaming Boomers will be visiting the Phoenix Symphony for a performance of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf set to the 2008 Oscar winning annimated short film. This will be great fun, and we look forward to sharing it with you.
Spring in the Sonoran Desert
We have had a lot of rain this winter. That means glorious beauty in the Sonoran Desert. Here is a photograph of mine, from a few years ago, after another wet winter. We will be bringing you photographs that will likely motivate you to come visit Scottsdale right now!
