<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Arizona</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/travel/archive/unitedstates/az?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/az</link><description>Arizona</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[The Grander Canyon]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12019-2004Sep10.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/az</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12019-2004Sep10.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/az</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:42:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Nothing banishes the early-morning cobwebs like waking a sleepwalk away from a 3,000-foot drop.]]></description><author> Julian Smith</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arizona Golf, With Reservations]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19380-2003Nov28.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/az</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19380-2003Nov28.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/az</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:42:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[From the amount of cursing that filled the air at We-Ko-Pa, you'd never have guessed that it is considered holy ground.]]></description><author> Craig Stoltz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The $2,300 Solution]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13114-2003Nov7.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/az</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13114-2003Nov7.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/az</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:42:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago, I wouldn't have been caught dead going to a spa resort for a vacation. That's for blue-haired ladies whose idea of excitement is a slow stroll around the croquet courts. It's where the bitchy broads of "The Women" convene to plot the destruction of their ex-husbands over vodka stingers. It's <em>so </em>not happening.]]></description><author> Alicia Mundy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Operation: Relaxation]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16796-2002Aug30.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/az</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16796-2002Aug30.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/az</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:42:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Her family sent her on a secret mission to an Arizona spa. Her orders? Just chill.]]></description><author> Brigid Schulte</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Remote Possibility]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13200-2002Jun7.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/az</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13200-2002Jun7.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/az</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:42:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In the distant canyon lands of Arizona, a dude ranch where you can really get away from it all.]]></description><author> Sally Shivnan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stalking Trout  In the Colorado]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55294-2002Apr26.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/az</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55294-2002Apr26.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/az</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:42:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It all appears so wild and true. The water is big and cold and clear. The fish are the color of vacation sunsets. You can see them, shouldering into the current, ready, able and wily.]]></description><author> William Booth</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Sedona, a Mystical World of Wares]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28372-2001Aug3.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/az</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28372-2001Aug3.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/az</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:42:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Arizona's popular desert town of Sedona may best be known as the backdrop for countless westerns and SUV commercials, and it's the New Age center of the country. But there's more to this desert oasis than cowboys, cars and crystals.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Desert Primer]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15457-2001Jan18.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/az</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15457-2001Jan18.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/az</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:42:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Sonoran, Chihuahuan, Mojave, Great Basin -- which desert to see in this land of big western deserts? In winter, the choice is guided by climate rather than the variety of vegetation, which would be more a factor in springtime (and which might send you to the lush Sonoran Desert).]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Desert in Winter]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15451-2001Jan18.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/az</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15451-2001Jan18.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/az</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:42:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Experience the unique rewards of visiting the desert in winter.]]></description><author> Sally Shivnan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Family of Four]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61047-2000Dec28.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/az</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61047-2000Dec28.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/az</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:42:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[THREE DAYS: Disneyland]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Along for the Ride]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37667-2000Jun11.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/az</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37667-2000Jun11.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/az</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:42:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[At twilight, the moon came up so big and fat it looked like a cartoon hanging over the Chiricahua Mountains. But as the cool desert night lengthened, the moon constricted, shrinking into the massive black sky.]]></description><author> Joe Sharkey</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do-It-Yourself Desert]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41952-2000Apr30.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/az</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41952-2000Apr30.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/az</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:42:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Agua Fria National Monument, 71,100 acres of desert 40 miles north of Phoenix, harbors an array of plant and animal species, a healthy perennial river (rare in Arizona), miles of challenging four-wheel-drive/mountain biking/hiking trails and--the main event--an un-quantified cache of 13th-century Indian pueblos and rock carvings. Yet this newly designated park has no visitors center, tourist facilities, entry fee or promotional signage. And the Federal Bureau of Land Management, which oversees the monument, doesn't want to publicize the Indian ruin locations to the general public.]]></description><author> John Briley</author></item></channel></rss>