Blogs from Tucson, Arizona, United States, North America - page 28

HAPPY EASTER TO ALL AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BECKA This past week Jennifer, my daughter, came to stay with us for her spring break. Jennifer, now prefers to be known as Katherine, her middle name. This is a family name which honors 2 aunts, who recently passed away and a great-grandmother. Katherine arrived on Monday. We had been saving some trips for her visit. One day we rode bikes around Green Valley to relax and become familiar with the area. Then we started off on 3 trips to Nogales, Mexico, Kitt Peak National Observatory and the Biosphere2. One of her courses now is astronomy, so her favorite place was Kitt Peak. Nogales was quite a hoot. Just going from store to store and experiencing a different place and culture was great. We ate a very good Mexican ... read more

It all fit in the car, again, and we were off to visit friends in Midland, TX. on the 28th. We had a lovely visit and a great meal in one of Midland's finest, and then we went back onto the prairies of Texas and New Mexico. We spent a night in El Paso, which Joanie prefered to where we had been, and then leisurely finished the trip on the second. I guess that it is good to take that trip occasionally, to reassure one that we are not running out of land. (Or trucks). Traveling across it surely gives the passenger time to read the paper and do his crossword puzzles. Keeping the driver awake can be a problem. This area is typical of Arizona. Lots of sand, cactus, space, and nice and warm weather. ... read more

In May, 1985 I purchased my first new vehicle, a small 4X4 pickup truck. I did that for my new job and my first assignment was in Tucson, Arizona. I was so poor then I had the choice of getting a cheap hotel in the Tucson slums without air conditioning (at 100 degrees F), or camping in the cool air of the tall Catalina Mountains on the North side of Tucson. My new truck was set up for camping so I chose that option. (Camping not permitted by my new employer...to bad, so sad.) One of my first excursions was in Saguaro National Park (East) a few miles East of Tucson. (There is a detached section of Saguaro National Park, West of Tucson that I never visited.) Getting close (about ten miles East of Tucson, Arizona) ... read more