Odd Observations
A Greek Monastery In the Arizona Desert
St. Anthony's Greek Orthodox Monastery is an almost miraculous oasis in an otherwise flat piece of Arizona desert near Florence. In less than two ...Do Your Feet Get Bigger When You Move to the Desert?
Here at Valley 101 headquarters, white-coated lab technicians have been working round-the-clock to answer one of the greatest questions ever to cross the Valley ...Know the Origin of the Highway 89 Screamers?
Under normal circumstances, I can readily find the origins of weird things in Arizona, but there's one north of Flagstaff that puzzles me. No ...How Did Phoenix Get Its Name?
Arizona's capital city might have been called "Salina," "Stonewall," or even "Pumpkinville," had it not been for a spurious English "Lord" named Darrell Duppa. ...Mini-Taj in the Yuma Desert
It's not as big as the Taj Mahal in India, but a little church in the desert north of Yuma was also built for ...Have You Seen The Tiny Creatures From The Stock Tank?
My husband and kids were out hiking and stopped at a stock tank to look for animal tracks. In the water, they saw these ...Does Phoenix Have Its Own Area 51?
Today’s question: My friends and I often mountain-bike in the Dreamy Draw area. Recently one of the guys started talking about how a UFO ...Did You Know Lizards Can High-Tail It On 2 Legs?
Today’s question: I was at Lake Pleasant recently, and I thought I saw a lizard running across some rocks as fast as can be ...Think Arizona is the Grand Canyon State? Think Again.
It’s pretty safe to say that a large amount of residents consider Arizona the “Grand Canyon State.” State nicknames like this are commonplace around the ...A Giant Head Guards Route 66
About 15 miles east of Kingman, at the corner of Route 66 and Antares Road, a huge green head keeps a watchful eye on ...
