Gary Mathewson's "ARIZONA BACKROADS" Travel Tips

My job as producer/director of the EMMY winning Television Show, Arizona Backroads is to find fascinating places to go to enjoy in Arizona and in my travels I have visited many of the thousands of attractions available to the traveler. In this Blog I will attempt to share one or two of them each week.
Let’s talk about Arizona, one of the newest and most fascinating states in the ol’ US of A. Movies have been made here, John Wayne, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby among others seemed to be always filming in some spot of Arizona. Ever see “Raising Arizona” with Nicholas Cage, Holly Hunter, and John Goodman? It is one of the best. More recently celebrity sightings of people like Britney Spears, Jennifer Anniston and George Clooney seem to becoming common. Much to do, an exciting place!
Many people think that Arizona is arid and all desert. Maybe because it’s two major cities, Phoenix and Tucson are both situated in the middle of exactly that - the Sonoran Desert. So if that’s where you visited that’s what you saw along with Baseball Spring Training with Barry Bonds et al, The Super Bowl, The Fiesta Bowl, NASCAR Racing, The Phoenix Open Golf, Maybe see Steve Nash of the Suns play Yao Ming and the Rockets and more. Not all that bad if you’re there in the right time of the year.
The cities are great of course, but to tell you the truth you could replicate the temperature and climate of all the 48 continental states somewhere in Arizona. So why not try.
Arizona has only the two major cities, Phoenix and Tucson. The rest of the large State is made up of many, many must see locations. Indeed, the third largest city in the state is Mesa, a suburb of Phoenix.
So where to go?
The Grand Canyon?
The mountain skiing?
The pine forests and mountains of the east?
The beauty of Sedona?
The nostalgia of Tombstone?
A seaside beach? Rocky Point, a Beautiful Ocean Beach is in Mexico but only a three hour drive from either Phoenix or Tucson and is full of Arizonans on weekends.
What about Bisbee, Jerome, The Salt River Valley, Montezuma’s Castle.
I could go on and on
AND I WILL - IN THE COMING WEEKS ---GARY


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