Travels with Whitley: Arizona

Music and burgers

Greasewood Flats, 27375 N. Alma School Pkwy, Scottsdale, 480-585-9430
Rusty Spur Saloon, 7245 E Main St, Scottsdale, 480-425-7787
Harold's Corral, 6895 E Cave Creek Rd, Cave Creek, 480-488-1906
Buffalo Chips Saloon, 6811 E Cave Creek Rd, Cave Creek, 480-488-9118
Horny Toad, 6738 E Cave Creek Rd, Cave Creek 480-488-9542
Romans Oasis, dancing and drinks, 16825 W Yuma Road, Goodyear, 623-932-0922
San Tan Flat, 6185 W Hunt Hwy, Queen Creek, 480-882-2995, SE of Phoenix

Saguaro Cactus of Arizona

Saguaro National Park

north of Cave Creek and south of National Forest in Prescott

Jerome, on top of a mountain, old mining town and now premier art stores. Bring good walking shoes and explore the town. Like dining at the Asylum restaurant in the old Grand Hotel.

Sedona, artist community, Red Rocks

Oracle, home of the Biosphere II, tours available

El Dorado, hot springs south of I-10, west of Phoenix, Oasis in the Desert, massage available

Essence of Tranquility, Safford, north of I-10, west of New Mexico state line, hot springs

Grand Canyon, south entrance is northwest of Flagstaff, South Rim, Grand Canyon National Park Lodge, eat at El Tovar an elegant restaurant in the hotel

Winslow, Arizona

Restoration of Mission San Xavier del Bac on Indian Reservation, near Tucson, Arizona

San Xavier Church

Standin' on the Corner in Winslow, Arizona at Christmas time, Route 66 trail

It's a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed Ford slowin' down to take a look at me

Inside San Xavier Mission, Arizona, History 1872

Sedona, Arizona at the Chapel of the Holy Cross with 4 month old, Whitley Baytop with the Red Rocks, Courthouse Butte

Chapel in Sedona

Biosphere 2, Oracle, failures of hubris men

Toured the 3.14 acres of Biosphere 2 in 2001 and discussed the top human failures of this experiment: forgetting wind in the rainforest (trees with no stress collapse under its own height and weight), concrete released carbon dioxide in a sealed environment (causing the co2 levels to be to high, pressuring the biologist in charge of the desert to increase rainfall levels that killed the desert), and had turn on the giant lung to breath fresh air in to the building.

$200 million to build with 4 men and 4 women sealed in a closed environment for two years ending in 1993 (funded 1st by Edward P Bass of Texas).