I spent the last week in Tucson, Arizona with my colleague, Mark Kelly, for a combined business/outdoors trip. We spent one day visiting our customer at five different plant loctions… We used Mark’s gigantic telescope to check out Jupiter… We spent the equivalent of a day visiting the various sites on Mt. Lemon. We went all the way to 9,000 foot elevation to visit the University of Arizona observatory (see photo below – click thumbnail to see large version). We even came across a large tarantula during our drive back down the mountain. We visited Seven Cataracts Vista and climbed “off the beaten” path down some pretty treacherous terrain.
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Did you get to the outdoor desert museum – we did that several years ago during a conference in Tuscon – what a cool place!