OMG, this is a BIG place! This complex has a big RV only area, a combined RV/Parkmodel area, a home area with car ports, and a different home area with garages! They also have a hotel, a store, a cafe/grill, a bar, a massage on duty, a hair salon, a medical clinic, PLUS all of the other recreational amenities that many large resort parks have!!! (Pools, spas, classes, tennis, pickleball, etc.)
We get checked in, with Cathy backing in the RV. All the ladies come over to congratulate her on a fine job, and off she goes to the quilt show with them!
We take advantage of the blood drive in the park to donate! Then we participate in a neighborhood party with a firepit and good eats!!!!
We visit our friend Sandy and her new husband, Chad in northern Tucson. They have a great place, and we wish them well!
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| Tumacacori Mission |
We visit the Tumacacori National Monument which is one of the first missions in the area. Then on to Tubac, where we visit the Presidio, which was built to provide security to the missions in the area. Tubac is also a current day artist colony, and we have a great time looking around.
Cathy gets signed up for pickleball lessons, and Steve tries to perfect his serve! Too hot to play much during the early part of the day, but even Cathy likes it better after 5 when the sun is lower!
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| Duane and Ruth |
Our Nebraska friends, Duane and Ruth come down for a visit, and stay at the hotel here. Wouldn't you know that it is Gem and Mineral Show week!!! We take a look at one of the shows and stay most of the day, until it is time for the Superbowl. Ruth and Cathy find some things they can't live without!
One evening, the movie showing in the ballroom is The Lone Ranger! We find out what Kemosabe means! Johnny Depp is a hoot!!!!
Ruth and Cathy check out the Tubac Art Festival, finding even more things they can't live without; while Duane and Steve check out the Pima Air Museum and Airplane Graveyard, and Tombstone! The day is rounded out by a great meal of Mexican food and many margaritas! Alas, we are left to our own devices much too soon.
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| Tombstone |
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| Steve can find these anywhere, even Tombstone! |
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| Pima Air Museum |
Our touring is capped off with a trip to San Xavier del Bac, a beautiful, partially restored mission, which still holds services.
We took the downtown tour and checked out the Hard Rock Hotel, ate lunch at Las Casuelas, and looked around at the Thursday Fest. The big statue of Marilyn was being dismantled and moved somewhere else, so they had a big do as a sendoff.
We also toured Joshua Tree National Park. These are weird trees, a cross between a shrubby tree and a cactus.
We also met up with RV friends Brad and Nancy and toured the Carlsbad Flower Fields full of ranunculus flowers. They were beautiful. That evening we had dinner in Imperial Beach at Sea 180, a great place to eat!
Yuma Territorial Prison was an interesting visit. We saw the guard tower, which was built over the water cistern to keep it from evaporating; the "dark cell" where the punishments were carried out, and some of the cells. There were 6 men to a cell, 8' x8', locked up from 9pm to 7am. No ventilation except the door and a very tiny window about 12 feet off the ground. Claustrophobia city!!!
