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• Agua Fria National Monument – Sunday Hike

  May 21, 2017 / 9 years agoNews

  5 weeks ago we were up at the Agua Fria National Monument for an exhausting hike down stream. Today we drive up there again. Already on the part of the hike from the parking lot…

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• Agua Fria National Monument – Exhausting Easter Hike

  Apr 16, 2017 / 9 years agoNews

  Gizmo is waking us up again shortly after 5am and by 5:30am we are both up having our first coffee. We quickly discuss what to do at this nice sunny Easter Sunday. We decide to…

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• Desert Botanical Garden: Last visit for this year

  Dec 13, 2016 / 10 years agoNews

  While family and friends have been complaining about the wet and cold weather in Europe and people at the East Coast are facing severe snow storms and hundreds if not thousands of cancelled flight, we…

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• Another visit to the Desert Botanical Garden

  Oct 11, 2016 / 10 years agoNews

  Fall finally has arrived in Scottsdale with some cooler temperatures - the summer heat is over which allows us to spend more time outside again. Today I spent a couple hours at the Desert Botanical…

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• Monsoon

  Aug 7, 2016 / 10 years agoNews

  During the monsoon-, or summer thunderstorm season, Arizona experiences more severe weather than many other states and gets most of its well needed water. On some occasions, a severe storm may spawn a microburst. More…

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• Visiting the Desert Botanical Garden

  Jun 14, 2016 / 10 years agoNews

  The other day our Argentinian friend Flavia mentioned that the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix offers free admission every second Tuesday of every month - normally the fee is $22. Today at 7:00 a.m. I…

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• Escaping the heat – Mogollon Rim

  May 15, 2016 / 10 years agoNews

  It’s already the 2nd really hot weekend here in Scottsdale with temperatures in the triple digits again (38 to 40 Celsius). So we decide that it would be nice to go on a day trip…

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• Snow and wildlife

  Mar 25, 2013 / 13 years agoTours

  Another long and adventurous day lays ahead of us: In the morning we drive past Panguitch Lake which is still solidly frozen and we see people ice fishing on it. We are lucky we don't…

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• Holiday weekend with tears

  Feb 20, 2013 / 13 years agoNews

  We had been thinking for visiting our dear friends in Las Cruces for some time now and it's Thursday morning 8am when we stand on the patio and Marco says that he is still considering…

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