todd bigelow desert delights there's plenty to experience and enjoy inside outside and around sunny phoenix by peter greenberg peter greenberg is the multiple-emmy award-winning travel editor for cbs news and host of the travel detective on public television ith an average 300 days of vv the perfect hub from which to navigate a south-central desert wild- flower varieties tacular desert botanical garden or owned non-profit zoo in america near both the zoo and the botanical sive museum devoted to firefighting british-built pumper wagon from 1725 phoenix start your saturday morning at the roadrunner park farmers market- the oldest in arizona-and head to gil's up some honey from local beekeepers