Tucson Highlights

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In the past two weeks, we have toured the town of Tucson, taking in sights wondrous and mundane.  To wit, the most interesting:
** Pima Air and Space Museum.  If you like airplanes, gotta go here!  I've visited many such museums over the years, but never have seen the number and variety of this collection.  Two exhibits actually:
1 The Museum www.pimaair.org contains over 300 airplanes and space vehicles from the US and abroad and historical displays;
2 The 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) http://www.dm.af.mil/units/AMARC.asp , also known as the "Boneyard," seen via bus tour, where they store and restore military aircraft for reuse, parts, or museum display.  The pictures here give you only a hint of the two collections.  Click here for pictures

**Tucson Museum of Art, where we viewed a private collection of Ansel Adams photos.

** Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.  A world class zoo, natural history museum and botanical garden.  We took in the afternoon raptor exhibit, with Harris Hawks flying so low overhead you could reach out and touch them, at the risk of losing a piece of finger.  Click here for pictures

** Avatar.  I saw this movie alone, then again with Jenna.  The second time, I realized why certain conservative commentators have turned apoplectic with rage over the liberal biases in this movie:
1. If you take off the 3D glasses, squint, and blink rapidly, you will eventually see the subliminal message, "Democrats are cool!"
2 The Na'vi rode steeds similar to donkeys.
3 Like the Na'vi, Barak Obama is tall.

For those worried that we are suffering in another GFD [Click here for explanation], here are some pictures of the desert from our site. Click here for pictures .  It ain't Yuma, baby!

Bruce