Back from Tucson...

Last week I went out to Tucson, Arizona. This was my second time there - if you actually count driving through there. Quite a nice area if you ask me. The weather is awesome, and the scenery is some of the best I have seen. As far as activities, well, if you don't like the great outdoors, there isn't much. But there was a lot of geocaching. Since this is my first post, I should mention what geocaching is. Actually, why reinvent the wheel...check this out.

The picture of me on the side of the mountain is of me finding a cache at about 9,000+ feet.

This trip out to AZ was for work. The conference itself was an absolute bore, but it provided plenty of opportunity to get outdoors and do some caching. BTW, the best sunset I have ever seen was here in Tucson.

There is another picture below of me standing on top of a Titan Missile Silo that has been sealed over with concrete. After the Cold War, the SALT treaty called for the 18 Titan missiles around Tucson to be decommissioned. There are several of these silos in the middle of the desert in Tucson. You can read more about the Titan Missile program at this site. After the silos were destroyed and filled with concrete, they put these big metal domes over them to seal them up, so they could be verified by Russians and their satellites.

If you want to see more of the pictures I took, and some AWESOME sunset pictures while on the trip, visit my Picasa web albums here ---> Tucson Photos.

Thanks for reading....and stay tuned, I will be traveling to Hartford, CT this weekend so there's sure to be plenty of leaf peeping pictures.

dave.