14-mile path boasts scenery and silence Sometimes you get sick of life in the fast lane. We've got a cure: the Greaterville Road. The winding, dusty, bumpy, 14-mile road slithers along the northern flanks of the Santa Rita Mountains about 40 miles south of Tucson. It's one of those routes that leads to nowhere in particular, and takes its sweet time getting there. Drive it - slowly, as the terrain dictates - and you're likely to shake off some city stress while savoring a rich mix of scenery.
While there is nothing else quite like Kon Tiki in Tucson, it was part of the nationwide Polynesian pop-culture explosion that occurred when servicemen returned from the South Pacific after World War II. The Polynesian-themed craze was at its height in the 1950s and '60s. Tucson's own Kon Tiki has been open since 1963, said general manager Louie Lazos.
...The key is the 50 or so creatively named tropical drinks that are served in fishbowl-sized glasses and can be sipped through extra-long straws ($2 to $7). The popular scorpion - a sweet, secret concoction of rum, gin, brandy and liquors mixed into fruit juice - is known as being disarmingly strong and can be made for one ($6) or two ($12).
Some with flash, most without. Al cooked the most wonderful steak you could ever want to eat. Loddy, the last wood he used was Cherry from the yard. Oven baked potatos, and asparagus with homemade cheese sauce. Oh course a few drinks too. ;)
A lovely night, and we talked to friends in up in the mountains and down in FL. A link to the rest of them:Dinner