There is more to Arizona than Spring baseball. Tucson has a terrific zoo/museum/exhibition of desert flora. See a mean looking cat to the left.
And there are some interesting small towns east of Tucson just off the 10. Especially Tombstone and Bisbee. The former exists entirely on the probably exaggerated history of the shootout at the OK Corral, but the latter has something going for it even now, including a decent hotel, The Copper Queen, and a real hat store, Optimo Hatworks, where I was fitted for a hat in the old-fashioned way.
Apparently Bisbee was a very big place in the latter part of the 19th century, mostly silver and copper until it suddenly declined in the 1920s.
And there is a very nice old mission just south of Tucson: San Xavier del Bac.
And there is a Titan Missile Museum in Green Valley just south of Tucson too. See above. Sorry for the awkward placement of the pictures but Blogger can't seem to fix this problem.
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