A few unrelated bits from Tucson and vicinity:
1) If you enjoy astronomy, I highly recommend a visit to Kitt Peak National Observatory, about 40 miles West of Tucson, a mountain with a bunch of telescopes on it, including a rarity, a triangle shaped solar telescope. They have tours that both adults and kids like.
2) In Tucson proper, at the University of Arizona, is the Flandrau Planetarium, which generally has a good program of entertaining astronomical shows, and is worth a visit. Astronomy is very big in southern Arizona.
3) South of Tucson is the San Xavier del Bac Mission, a 400 year old Spanish Mission still used by the Yacqui Indians as a church and parochial School. The most photographed building in Arizona.
4) Nearby to that is the Titan II Missile Museum, built in homage to the 5-story tall nuclear missiles that used to be stationed there. You can tour the underground command and control center, and it has a full sized dummy missile in one of the silos.
5) Other stuff to see in the area include the Biosphere 2 dome in Oracle, the Karchner Caverns and Colossal Cave, Old Tucson Movie Studios where they filmed a lot of western movies and TV shows, and the Sonora Desert Museum, a combination zoo, botanical garden and mineralogical museum.
6) The border town of Nogales is due South of Tucson, but soon you will need a passport to visit it.
You could also visit me in Vail about 15 miles SE of Tucson...oh wait. There is nothing to do at my place. I don’t even have a TV hooked up.
Anyone for a good book?