Route 66 – Celebrating 100 Years of Road Tripping
I feel like the trajectory of my life happened on one of those old kitschy postcards with a map of...
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Category: Jodi Johnson
Back Roads, Dead Cats, and What’s for Dinner: Growing Up in the Olden Days in Arizona and New Mexico
“Mine is a family of storytellers, cooks and travelers.” So begins this richly personal memoir,...
Read MoreGifts of the Sea…
backroadspublishing.com We have just arrived back in Peñasco for an extended visit and are trying to decide where to go for our much-needed seafood fix. It is the amazing variety, freshness, and quality of the gifts of the Sea...
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Three Festivals…
backroadspublishing.com It is a tale of three cities, three festivals, and my three new favorite...
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A great new addition to the Peñasco ice cream scene…
backroadspublishing.com Ice cream and I go way back. I vividly remember the excitement of my...
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Adventures and mis-adventures in Bisbee, Queen of the Copper Camps
Backroadspublishing.com I am so excited to be heading down to Southern Arizona for a return...
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Crown Jewel of Sonora: Pueblo Mágico Álamos
backroadspublishing.com There is an enchanting Mexican colonial town in southern Sonora that I...
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La Recua: A Journey, a Film
backroadspublishing.com There are things that I value, connections with people, natural...
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Favorite Local Peñasco Food: El Carrito Tostadas
backroadspublishing.com We are hurtling south down Mexico 8 at, as my partner says, “the speed of...
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Counting Pennies at Union Station
One of my fondest memories was counting the pennies for my Grandmother Marie as she balanced the...
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Looking for Wilbur? It’s Time for the Fair.
Wilbur was a pig. I hunted for him at the big Arizona State Fair in Phoenix and at the smaller,...
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A Hero’s Journey
It is a hero’s journey, the real-life hero’s journey of Charlie Brown—not the character in Charles...
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Crossing The Border
Products which are prohibited to pass (Productos que están prohibidos pasar):
Animals, Plants, and Products Permitted at Touristic Level
Guidelines on animals, plants, and products that may enter Mexico
