Best of all are the travel deals, especially in and around Tucson, the upstart rival to high-brow Phoenix and Scottsdale. These ten picks will show you why. Tucson's high desert is both graveyard and warehouse for many a winged wonder. Parts are left lying around just long enough for Russian satellites to verify their death. Park Avenue Shoppers who like to venture beyond the Malls should head for this tiny strip of revamped warehouses.
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At Colonial Frontiers, you'll even find Amazon masks and other artsy artifacts from South America as well as trinkets, silks and ornamental boxes from the Far East. Sandy tornadoes are common place, rising unexpectedly in misty spirals that sweep across the highway. Keep your eye on the road. Equally hypnotic are the billowing black clouds that travel the landscape, dumping their load so hard the rains are almost horizontal. Then there are the night skies against which lightening flashes and forks through ever-changing cloud formations, striking the horizon with jagged clarity and white washing the mountains for a blink of an eye.