Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Cactus Country
Cactus Country
We’ve been off the e-mail grid for almost a week now. I won’t bother to write much about the 3 days in Tuscon. We stayed at a mobil home park which has some RV spots; mostly hung around the hot tub and tried to get over our colds, but also had some errands to do—including getting Kit’s bike fixed. Then we headed southwest to Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument which we think is one of the most beautiful places in the US. There are no hookups in the campground there but managed to stretch our batteries to 3 nights in the park. We ran into our new friends Richard and Christine (we met them in Tombstone) and enjoyed some hiking and visiting with them. We even met some people from Sweet Home who know my mom. Next year if we don’t get on as volunteers, we’ll get a generator so we can stay 2 weeks. Last year we were there in the winter of rain and there was plenty of green and lots of wildflowers. This year, it’s drought again there—no rain since October, and not much last summer either. As for now—we’ve back tracked east to Florence (AZ) to get some work done on our brakes before we head to the mountains. Plan to visit some friends north of Phoenix so it’ll probably be a week before we’re out of Arizona. All we hear from home is Rain, rain, rain. The temperature in Arizona has gone from 78 to 58 in just two days and it’s supposed to hit 28 tonight.
We’ve been off the e-mail grid for almost a week now. I won’t bother to write much about the 3 days in Tuscon. We stayed at a mobil home park which has some RV spots; mostly hung around the hot tub and tried to get over our colds, but also had some errands to do—including getting Kit’s bike fixed. Then we headed southwest to Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument which we think is one of the most beautiful places in the US. There are no hookups in the campground there but managed to stretch our batteries to 3 nights in the park. We ran into our new friends Richard and Christine (we met them in Tombstone) and enjoyed some hiking and visiting with them. We even met some people from Sweet Home who know my mom. Next year if we don’t get on as volunteers, we’ll get a generator so we can stay 2 weeks. Last year we were there in the winter of rain and there was plenty of green and lots of wildflowers. This year, it’s drought again there—no rain since October, and not much last summer either. As for now—we’ve back tracked east to Florence (AZ) to get some work done on our brakes before we head to the mountains. Plan to visit some friends north of Phoenix so it’ll probably be a week before we’re out of Arizona. All we hear from home is Rain, rain, rain. The temperature in Arizona has gone from 78 to 58 in just two days and it’s supposed to hit 28 tonight.
# posted by Carol Harma @ 10:37 AM 
