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We arrived in Tucson at Far Horizons Tucson Village at about noon on Monday. Since then, we've been busy with tying things down, getting things hooked up, and reconnecting with our Tucson friends.
Here's a brief rundown:
Monday we got parked here with no trouble. Our site is on the corner of Cuatro and Maricopa, and we have our own stop sign! If you look very closely in the top photo here, you can see those little bunnies we got in Joplin!
Michael called the cable guy immediately after we got the other utilities hooked up, and he came out right away. Chase from Cox got us all wired up, and we got our network online and working on Monday!
Tuesday the 14th was Hiking Club day! We went with the group to Saguaro East, where we went on a 4.75 mile hike with the No-Hurry Hikers. We saw beautiful flowers, plentiful and healthy cactus, and three jackrabbits!
Yesterday we went out for a sumptious feast at Chaffin's Family Restaurant on Broadway. Platters of delicious food, and most of it was gone before we left. I wonder if y'all would like to see pics of our food again?
Then we did laundry and dusted and vacuumed and brushed Maddy. Huge jobs, because we had 6 loads of scroungy clothes from all the travel, and Maddy's been shedding like a champ!
Last evening was Potluck night and we brought cinnamon pecans. They were pretty good, and all were consumed, but they were not the best ever. They didn't get crunchy! We really enjoyed getting together with all the gang and meeting some new people, too.
It's noon now and 77° here in Tucson!
1) We're in Tucson! We arrived here this morning at about noon. We got into our space here at Far Horizons Tucson Village, without too much difficulty. (Hey.. I was driving, so of course it wasn't difficult! LOL!)
Everyone's happy to see us, and we feel at home already.
2) I set up my monitors and got my computer working on the first try.
3) We got the cable hooked up and our wireless network is installed and .. here I am, so it's working!
4) We went to a truck wash this morning as we were leaving Willcox, and they did a splendid job of spiffing up our home. We had the car hooked on and they washed it too! :D
After a 30 minute walk around the park, we ate at Sweet Tomatoes tonight. It's an all-you-can-eat salad, soup, and pizza/pasta place which we love, so it was just perfect. We are so happy to be here at last!
Today was a beautiful day! We left at just after 10, driving the 40 or so miles down to Chiricahua National Monument.
This magnificent park features acres of standing rock formations. These were formed originally by melted volcanic ash, which was deposited 27 million years ago. (No, I don't remember this!) Over the millenia, the rocks were cracked and separated into the pinnacles. Erosion by wind, water, and ice separated them further, and created the balanced rock formations and sentinal rocks we visited today.
We took the Echo Canyon Loop trail. Along the way, we saw beautiful plants characteristic of the various ecosystems we traversed. Tall redwood-type pines populated the lower levels of the canyon,l and prickly pear and agave were king of the higher areas on the sunny side of the canyon.
I thought that this bark on this half-dead tree looked like a huge snake!
We stopped at Echo Canyon Park and had our lunch -- peanut butter on raisin bread! The trail was 3.2 miles. They describe it as "moderate," and I suppose that is a good description. It did carry us from just about the top of these pinnacles down into the canyon to the base of these spires, and it was quite a climb coming out! What fun!
We drove around the rest of the counterclockwise "Magic Circle" back to Willcox to our RV park where Eddie and Maddy were patiently waiting. Great day! By the way, I faked the sky for only one of the above photos. Can you tell which one? ;)
