Arizona has Petrified Forests in such abundance at the Petrified Forest National Park. Drive through it or for a closer look go on hiking trails found there. It is located just off 1-40 in North East Arizona.

The Lost Dutchman mine was never rediscovered, there is a superstition that Gold can still be found, many adventurers visit this place called the Lost Dutchman State Park. Wilderness can still be explored and a desert Lake, Canyon Lake is very near to it.

Most of the tourists camp, hike or picnic at these desert trails. Handicapped people are also welcomed here.

The world’s largest natural bridge (400 ft wide & 183 ft in height) over looking the Pine Creek is in Tonto Natural Bridge State Park. Flowing streams, upstream of the canyon, make a spectacular view.

A century old hotel, refurbished, provides excellent viewing. It is located 13 miles North West Payson off State Route 87. Picnicking or hiking is also catered for.

Considered to be Mother Nature’s finest playground is Slide Rock State Park. The Park’s name comes from 30 ft long water sliding down the rocks. The canyon here has Red Rock walls & pine forests. An Apple orchard is also an added attraction.

A huge crowd is always gathered here to refresh themselves at Slide Rocks during summer months. The parking facilities has also been expanded recently.

Just a few miles off West of Sedona in Arizona State is 286 acres of Red Rock State Park. Picnic areas and classrooms may be reserved for the public but they do provide education to school groups and private groups as well.

Swimming and going across water is available to local wildlife only and please don’t bring your pets as this is a place where there are no facilities for them. Still they provide camping sites, picnic grounds, hiking trails, classrooms, visitor’s center with a great theater and of course a gift shop.

Right next to the Community of Cottonwood, in the scenic Verde Valley, is Dead Horse Ranch State Park. Now don’t get alarmed by its name as here you can do bird watching, camping, canoeing, horseback riding, picnicking and stream & pond fishing.

Here you can also go hiking and the Equestrian events are held regularly.

Near the City of Show Low is located Fool Hollow Lake Recreation Area. Imagine camping on a lake shore and watching the noble great blue herons. Show Low Creek falls into this lake, which provides water to lots of wild animals and it has a very different fishing area.

It has a huge variety of fish like rainbow trout, brown trout, channel catfish, walleye and green sunfish. Nearby White Mountain Trail System offers many hiking trails. This place adjoins the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest where you can get the geographical maps too.

This site offers agricultural features, camping sites, pit houses and lots of other sites. It is located a few miles North East of Winslow on State Route 87. Archeologists work in June & July only from Monday till Friday. Here archaeological exhibitions are also held many times a year.

This place offers many recreational areas with picnic tables electric supply, tent pads and grills.

As there is no size restriction on boats Lyman Lake State is 1500 acres of really beautiful Lake. A small herd of buffaloes are always grazing near the access road. A nice & restricted no-wake place for anglers.

This place offers facilities that include rock hounding trails, fishing, hiking, boat rentals and a swimming pool. General boat rental concessions are available by booking in advance.

On the foot of Mount Graham is a haven known as Roper Lake State Park. An excellent place for fishing, swimming, hiking, picnicking and camping. Camp on the lake shore & avail a natural hot-bath tub which is prepared by park rangers. The park is located a few miles South of Safford off US Route 191.

Lots of other facilities include rest rooms, shower rooms, fishing pad (also for handicapped persons), waste disposal grounds, Electric hookup, boat ramp and Natural hot springs.

Desert scenery and an isolated place is Alamo Lake State Park. It is located on Bill Williams River and after some miles falls into Colorado River.

With a backdrop of picturesque Rawhide & Buckskin Mountains it presents a stunning view. Abundance of wildlife includes Bald Eagles, Coyote, Deer, Quails and wild Burros are the area’s trademark.

Some of the basic facilities include Group use area, hiking, fishing, Electric hook up, boating, rest room showers (accessible for the handicapped) and waste disposal area.

Buckskin Mountain State Park is located between the Mountains & the Colorado River, is a welcome site both for nature lovers and hikers. Three fully developed trails on these mountains that go up the steep bluffs are always inviting to hikers.

The River welcomes swimmers, pleasure boaters and water skiers with open arms. Anglers vie for channel cat fish, crappie, large mouth bass and bluegill.

There are two distinct units at Lake Havasu State Park, Windsor Beach and Cattail Cove. Windsor beach is a day out park with all water crafted facilities. It is located in a wonderfully developed area in Lake Havasu City just North of the Famed imported old London Bridge.

Two and a half miles long and spread over 250 acres, Patagonia Lake State Park offers a variety of recreational outdoor activities. The lake is filled with catfish, bluegill, crappie and bass and in winter by rainbow trout.

Because of huge gatherings, water skiing and jet skiing are banned in summer weekends.

For anglers facilities of half of the lake is converted into a no-wake area. It offers water & electric hook ups, picnic places, a swimming beach and a marina store with boat rentals.

For any information about big hunting game contact Arizona’s Game and Fish department.

Hope your stay in Arizona is a very memorable one.

Frederick Williams

Looking at all the happy people at Margarettaville was a nice site.  I remember being happy .  There is a nice energy in the air when you witness it.  I got my doggy Chico in with me since he is a service dog.  I had to  pick him up so the dancing crowd would not squash the little cutie pie.  Being Thanksgiving weekend I had family guests with me and we played pool.  I begged out after seeing an entire game went by without me getting one ball in the pocket.  My nephew was smooth with his shots and truly impressed me. We visited the largest growing retirement Village in the United States.  It’s called the Villages.  It closes up aobut 9pm.

All alone here again with you and my typewriter.  What would one do without a computer.  I was in that between ages.  When I retired from teaching I almost was convinced I did not need one until my son in law convinced me to buy one from his friend’s store.  So now I get to play chess everyday with people around the world and trade on eBay.  There’s a whole world out there on the internet and I am an active participant.

 So, my husband picked Central Florida to move to from Long Beach, NY.  Three years later he died at 5am like Tim Russet.  Still in shock.  My world collapsed.  I was the happiest woman on the face of the earth living with the perfect husband.  He was the sexiest man of the face of the earth.  Not only was he a wizard at the stock market, a  great golfer and gourmet cook-he was loving and took such care of me.  After retiring from being a High School Principal his new job was me.  I was a handful.  John provided for me after his death.  I have it all except the most important ingredient-my true love.

So I surfed the internet and saw Tampa has a ski group going to Breckinridge.  I decided to go for it with strangers.  It won’t be like skiing in Vermont by our ski home with a gang of friends-but it will be skiing.   I look forward to great exercise and beauty in the mountains of Colorado.  Maybe I should just book trip after trip.  I am living here in a place my friend’s call “Buttfuck” since they cannot see being North of Boca unless you’re in New York.  I see their point when I pass 3 cow pastures on the way to the Post Office.  I was told not to brag about being surrounded by horses and buffalo here-so I won’t.

I joined a club unwittingly.  The sisterhood of widows.  Never thought I’d be one.  I imagined we die in some disaster together.  Maybe a plane crash or hitting a tree skiing together.  No such luck.  I am here and my Johnny is not.  Should I pair up with another man.  I look around and see nice folk that are not like me.  They are mostly from the central states in my golf community.  When you leave my gated country club you run into men with piercings, tattoo’s and backwards hat.  Some of them have all their teeth.  So maybe I will not meet another and I am too frozen to move further South at this time.

My girlfriend has been widowed 15 years and prefers a solo life.  She told me you have to kiss a lot of frogs and then you still do not find Mr. Right.  I lived with Mr. Perfect so what to do-watch TV, golf and surf the internet and fast forward commercials.  It’s a life of sorts.

I attended a grievance group here that depressed me even more than I was before going.  It had parents that lost their children.  I could not bear their pain and then I was told I could not truly grieve if I did not take Jesus Christ into my life.  So I am about the only Jew in this area and there were no Jewish grievance groups-so at my age I should be able to handle my pain with my brain.  I have had years of education and taught high school health and PE-so to my own self be true.

Thanks for listening to my woe.  I am a work in progress and know not where I am going so I’ll golf, ski and play Mah jongg.

marcy may

You can predict your future. You really can predict your own success or your own failure. “Nonsense!” you say? It really is true.

Consider this. If you have absolutely no control over your future, then why worry about anything? Whatever is going to happen to you is going to happen anyway, right? That’s called fate. And believe it or not, that in and of itself is a prediction.

It is true; we have absolutely no control over many things in life. I cannot control the stock market, can you? I cannot control the housing market, can you? So many things are simply out of our control.

But, one thing is very much in your control, your own mind. You can choose to think about anything that you want to, at any given time. Right now, for example, you could choose to picture a skiing elephant.

If you did indeed, just now, picture a skiing elephant it is because you decided to think that. I may have made a suggestion, but you made a decision to think it and picture it. The same is true if you chose not to think about a skiing elephant.

So what does this have to do with predicting our future? Because we are always talking to ourselves, it has a great effect on our future. The words we speak to ourselves will either cause new things to happen in our life or they will help to perpetuate the road we are on.

Years ago, I used to go bowling once in awhile. It was just for fun with friends and I would go once or twice a year. The scores on my first three frames were always horrible. Do you know why?

As soon as I would grab the ball when it was my turn, I had the thought, “Don’t throw it in the gutter; don’t throw it in the gutter!” That was my self-talk. And, I didn’t know it at the time, but that was my prediction. Almost always in the first three frames, I would have at least two or three gutter balls.

But, once the game got going, I would shift my focus from the ball not going into the gutter to hitting the pins. I didn’t know it, but again, that was a prediction. And even being a very inexperienced bowler, my scores increased. I even got a strike once in awhile.

Now I know there are people who say, “Oh I’ve heard all this positive stuff before and it just doesn’t work for me.” That is self-talk and that is a prediction. I have also heard people who say other things, like, “Nothing ever goes right for me; I never catch a break.” Or, “I knew that was going to happen.”

Self-talking becomes future predictions. These predictions always produce results.

Those who are successful in life don’t dwell on what they don’t want to happen, but instead they dwell on what they do want to happen. They don’t dwell on their past failures and losses. Instead, they remember past successes. These memories, whether they are successes or failures, will evoke feelings and emotions. These feelings and emotions leave an imprint on your subconscious mind which is just as vivid as a reoccurrence of success. And, these thoughts are a prediction of what is going to happen.

Many of those who teach self-help and self-esteem courses say to see yourself as though you have already achieved what you desire in life. They encourage people to positively remind themselves over and over of where they want their life to go. So much of this is based on the dynamic truth, “as he thinks in his heart so is he.”

You cannot control nor can you predict many things going on all around you. But you can control what you think about. And most importantly, you can control what you tell yourself about yourself; your self-talk.

You really can predict your own future. You can set your own course regardless of the situations and conditions of the world around you. The Creator gave you free will so that you can choose your thoughts and thus control your own self-talk.

So, what’s in your future?

Michael A. Verdicchio
http://www.articlesbase.com/self-improvement-articles/predict-your-future-690187.html

The Tucson area is a serene desert playground surrounded by four mountain ranges that offers all kinds of recreational possibilities. For instance, hiking to a desert canyon waterfall, riding a horse on a mountain trail, or spending the day boating and fishing.

Snow skiing? Yes, skiing is available on Mount Lemmon, just an hour away, in the pine-covered Santa Catalina mountain range. Mt. Lemon is home to the country’s southernmost ski resort.

Maybe snow skiing is not your style. Perhaps you would like to challenge your game on one of Tucson’s more than 39 exceptional golf courses. Tennis your game? We have a multitude of tennis courts too. Did you know Tucson is the second best cycling city in the nation according to Bicycling magazine in 2006. Many tucsonans and other cyclists from all over the world compete annually in the El Tour de Tucson, one of the country’s largest cycling events.

Tucson also has it share of spectator sports as well. The city is home to spring training for the Colorado Rockies, Chicago White Sox, and the Arizona Diamondbacks.

The Arizona Diamondbacks’ AAA team, the Tucson Sidewinders, provides for a great family summer evening at Tucson Electric Park. In September ’06, the Sidewinders earned their first Pacific Coast League Championship title. Also, only days later, they became the 2006 AAA Champions defeating the International League Toledo MudHens.

For college fans, the University of Arizona, a member of the prestigious Pac-10 Conference, has teams in all major men’s and women’s NCAA sports. Men’s basketball and women’s softball have been recent national champions.

For many years, Tucson has already been home to two professional tour events, the Chrysler Classic PGA Tournament and the PING/Welch’s Championship LPGA event. Starting in February 2007, Tucson will host the Accenture Match Play championship. Sixty-four of the world’s top-ranked golfers will compete, on the breathtaking Gallery at Dove Mountain golf course in Marana, and take aim at the $7.5 million purse.

Gates Pass – West TucsonOther great events include NASCAR, horse and greyhound races, and the annual Fiesta de los Vaqueros, the largest mid-winter rodeo in the U.S. Tucson has a lot to offer all outdoors enthusiasts.

After a long day of activity, you can still relax and enjoy one of the most beautiful sunsets in the world.

Scott Hubbard
http://www.articlesbase.com/travel-articles/tucson-a-great-place-to-play-101241.html

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