Phoenix Travel Blogs - Page 3

I'd meant to go see Mickey’s Hangover or Scottsdale or some of the other wonderful places that Amanda has been telling us about in her Athewinn blog about Phoenix.  They sounded fascinating.  But I couldn’t resist going back to my favorite Phoenix place ever -  the Desert Bota…

I went to Phoenix over the three-day Columbus Day weekend to visit friends.  It was an overall great trip.  I got to do so much and reconnect with old friends. We went to the Arizona State Capitol Building, at my request.  I'm a Legislative Analyst for the Illinois House of Represen…

We chatted online, we chatted by phone, the time has come to make the leap and hold our very first Phoenix meetup (mini-meet, we like to start small).  Since the Phoenix area is SOOOO spread out and our Tbs come from all extremes of the valley, we decided to host this in Central Phoenix on a F…

my Verry First time TB meet-Up in Phoenix AZ 2009 Party time... Meeting new people In TravBuddy....

In the same vein of ....."all roads lead to Rome"......  we set off from Phoenix this morning for our 5+ hour flight to Philadelphia and our eventual destination of Wilmington, Delaware, where we would be staying with our good friends Michael and Stephanie VonBank and their nearly two year old…

Its Christmas Day in the United States which means that its time to leave the country.  Being a cheaper day to fly, not to mention the empty (or emptier) airports, we took a 7:30 AM flight out of Phoenix, through San Franciso, to Kansai Airport (KIX) in Japan.  This effectively removes al…

Like all good things, I knew this weekend must end as we sat in the military room at the airport waiting for my flight to be called.  While waiting and dreading the tick of the clock, a storm rolled in and delayed my flight out for several hours, but this only postponed the…

Except for the fact that the trip to get to Thailand is about a 25 hours the trip was a success.  My friend and I really enjoyed Thailand.  My friend has never traveled outside the USA and is now ready to go back and see more of Thailand.  SO WE WILL BE BACK.  We traveled w…

After nearly continuous, daily snowfalls from October 2007 through May of 2008, I planned a four day escape to Phoenix to thaw out my feet.  Allegiant Air had a 2 day sale with non-stops from Green Bay to Mesa for a ridiculously cheap rate of $150 round trip.  So without skipping a beat, …

Ok, a group of us went camping in a cave, what a party.  This is with a Meetup group (www.meetup.com) if you have not been to this site it is a great way to meet new people and to do different things.  As you can see this group met up and camped in a cave, how cool is that?  It was j…

My travels took me to Arizona in 2004. I didn't really know what to expect other than heat. Sure I'd seen it on TV and it looked like a cool (not in a temperature way) place albeit quite desolate. What I found was a place thats very hard to describe, but very interesting all the same. Arizona is pr…

In her blog, “Back to the Thaw in Phoenix” Elle (sweetsummerdaiz), there was a picture of her holding a Margarita that she said was as big as your head.  Well, I’ve seen some pretty good sized Margaritas before, but never one quite that big.  I just had to check it out for myself.&n…

We had arrived home.  Just as dusk was closing in on the desert our plane touched down on Arizona soil.  I looked out the window as we were landing and marveled at the unending brown terrain that stretched out as far as the eye could see.  Cactus and a sprinkling of scrub brush greet…

Received a free pass from one of the guys at the camera shop and decided to take a look at the botanical garden. The Desert Botanical Garden is located in Phoenix, Arizona,near the cities of Scottsdale and Tempe, on 145 acres in the midst of the red rock buttes of Papago Park. One of the current ex…

And car accident? Well, apparently so. Its those taxi cabs, they are so glaringly yellow. :)I was able to take pictures of cacti, so the trip was well worth it.