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You know how you think you know a place until you show it to someone who has never been there before? Former Coloradan, Megan McCrea returned home for the holidays with her boyfriend in tow.

You can hardly toss a tortilla in Tucson, Ariz., without hitting a really terrific Mexican restaurant. One of the best is El Charro Café, owned and operated by three generations of the Flores family since 1922.

I was determined to find a crested saguaro if it took me all day. It’s one of the strangest and most beautiful of all cacti. But it’s extremely rare.

What’s cuter than kitty TV and more addicting than a panda cam? The black-tailed prairie dog habitat at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson.

Something happened when the good ole American hot dog—as the story goes—took a little trip across the border from southern Arizona to the northern Mexico state of Sonora.

When the brochure for The Hotel Healdsburg Spa (H2 Hotel’s sister property up the street) in Sonoma County promised biodynamic farm-to-spa treatments, I thought, this I gotta see.

Brush Lake, the only state park in all of Northeast Montana, sits in some of the emptiest land this side of Mongolia. Even locals would agree that it’s a long drive past nowhere, and a good place to visit for peace and quiet.

The official baseball season runs from April to October, but stadium tours operate year-round. That means you can take yourself out to the ballpark, even when the Giants aren’t in town, on a daily public tour.

Three establishments in the China Basin area with history that predates the arrival of baseball by the Bay.

By the time you pay for tickets, parking, and popcorn at AT&T Park, you might not have much left for a hot dog and a soda, let alone a good square meal. Fortunately, the neighborhoods around the stadium are home to some very fine, reasonably priced restaurants.