One of the first things I learned when we moved to Tucson in 1968 was always shake your shoes out before putting them on because of the scorpions! My late father was a docent at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum and I spent a lot of time there as a kid watching all the "strange" desert animals I'd never seen before for hours lol. Last time I was in Tucson was 2009, need to make a trip back.