Before leaving Boulder City, we had a good breakfast at Southwest Diner. A throwback to earlier years, the place was decorated with a lot of nostalgia. Julie struck up a conversation with a couple of local veterans and not only were they friendly, they were funny and welcoming to their town. Aside from dinner across the street, this place should be on your stop list. Good food (lots of it), and an upbeat vibe. We traveled through hundreds of miles in the Nevada desert and

No offense to John Candy & Steve Martin, we are back on the road, enjoying some gypsy life. Tucson is incredibly beautiful in summer, as blooms are everywhere and the colors are spectacular. But with summers in Arizona, so comes the heat and as a bonus, monsoon season. 110 + degree heat isn't my idea, or Julie's of comfortable. And the monsoons that simply are pop up weather events are down right scary. So decisions were made that we would bug out for about 6 or 7 weeks a

It's true, kind of sureal. Julie and I have settled in Tucson, Arizona. In all the times we've toured around the country we assessed the area for more than the adventure in front of us. Would this be a good place to land? What are the neat things there to do? Are homes affordable? Access to medical, church, arts and entertainment/theater? How is the shopping, restaurants, distance to airports? Sure, a lot of stuff. We'd been places that were incredibly beautiful, if o