Tonight begins another awesome season of the Nat Geo Speaker's Series...

All-aboard Platform 18 at The Century Grand, where guests are invited into a Presidential Pullman-inspired train car...

Bob, Cheryl and I kayaked down the Salt River today.  We had booked the earliest time we could in hopes of seeing wild horses in the river, but no such luck!

I promised myself I would NOT let the Wildflower Season get away from me this year and it was nearing the end of March so I knew I didn't have much time left!  So, I made an entire week of Wildflower viewing!

I have been wanting to drive the Apache Trail for a while now and I thought this would be something that Joe could do! 

Did a quick day trip to Sedona since Donna didn't have to work today!  We decided to try doing part of the Bonyton Canyon Trail.  It was a flat, easy trail, at least as far as we went!  I read that the last 1/2 mile was definitely uphill, but the view it gets you to is amazing!

Since the weather is so stifling hot here right now, Donna and I decided to do a day trip to Mt. Lemmon as the temperatures are about 30-degrees cooler there! 

We went to explore the Salt River today, mainly as a way to try to distract me from the fact that I'm having hip replacement tomorrow!  Yikes!  

The Sonoran Desert Museum is a fusion of zoo, botanical garden, art gllery, natural history museum, and aquarium!  The gardens showcase the Sonoran Desert's ecosystem, home to over 2,000 species of plants and is known as the most lush desert on earth.