New Year's Resolution post

[camwyn]

I was originally gonna say that this year, rather than racking my brains for new doable resolutions (really, how many times can I resolve not to eat the Sun before it gets old?), I was gonna have just one resolution, and that was "I'm gonna kill me a pig." I did, after all, win that hunting trip in Texas, I just need to make the travel arrangements. However, I think I may have found one other resolution I need to add.

I'm gonna visit me a NUCLEAR MISSILE.

Seriously. I'll find other things to do in the Tucson area to justify the trip but the reason I wanna go to the area? Totally the Titan Missile Museum. I've been to the Bata Shoe Museum, the Museum of Sex, the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, the Museum of Chinese in America, the Mutter Museum of Jesus God Please Don't Leave Me Alone In Here When The Lights Go Out, the Dittrick Museum of The Creepy Surgical Implements Are Right Behind Me Aren't They, and the Newark Museum complete with the largest collection of Tibetan artifacts in the hemisphere. I wanna go to the nuclear missile museum now. Airfare's reasonable if booked in advance at the right time of year, there's a nice hostel in town with good rates, and I understand there's bicycling and other things to do in the region.

This is how you know you're me: "I need to see the missile! ... okay, and other stuff. There's other stuff, right?"

Comments

[lwood]

In no particular order...

* The Sonoran Desert Museum! Exactly what it says on the tin!
* Old Tuscon--the location of a zillion Old West movies, very near the SDM.
* Kitt's Peak Observatory, a bit south of town on the Tohono O'Odam Reservation*
* SAGUARO CACTI! This is where they live: Sonoran Desert, only within a narrow range of elevation, and to the appropriately indigenous people, these are their trees. This is why there is also Saguaro National Park.

If you gain access to a car, there's all manner of awesome Old West doings in the general vicinity. Town itself is flat, but there's mountains in all directions (it's called Basin-and-Range for a reason...). I do know a couple of people out that way, too.

I love Tucson, whenever it's not a bazillion degrees out...

-- Lorrie

* - Formerly known as the Papago, but that means "Bean-Eater" in Apache. Well, more like "Beaner", so we do not say this, but that's what might be in one's library, so I mention it.

[lemon_badgeress]

. . . you are still not allowed to eat the Sun. *frownyface*

[highways]

There's also the Biosphere 2, if you're into sciencey stuff? I actually don't have much advice beyond that -- I've lived in Tucson for going on three years now, and I've yet to find anything to really do here... Maybe I should also check out the missile museum, haha.

[ymfaery]

..so where is the Museum of Chinese in America?

[camwyn]

New York City's Chinatown. 215 Centre Street, specifically. It's probably more accurate in terms of what the museum is about to call it the Museum of the Chinese People in the United States, but the name is The Museum of Chinese in America, so, yeah.