February 25: Pictures from the last few days....

Here are some photos from the last few days:

Above: These saguaro cacti don't grow their 1st arm until they are 75 years old! Leah's standing beneath a Methuselah.

The next few photos are from the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum.

Above: This mountain lion is behind a Plexiglas window...but still, a powerful looking animal close up.

...not so powerful, but quite colorful. And below, both powerful and colorful!

Above: One of several Desert Museum structures made from Mesquite. Really smooth feeling wood!

Above and below: A bike ride near Gilbert Ray campground

Below: From my hike near Gilbert Ray:

Below: Sunset and moonrise from our campsite at Gilbert Ray campground outside Tucson:

Below: Our coach at the overflow area at Catalina State Park campground:

Below: A hike in Catalina State Park

 Jazzy being a responsible hiker, packing out her own waste.

We left Catalina State Park on Thursday, the 24th, intending to get to Tubac, about 20 miles south of Tucson. However, we ended up searching all over Tucson for a really simple RV part--went to three different places looking for it, but none had it. So we just left anyway--at about 5 PM--and arrived last night at the Desert Diamond Casino just south of Tuscon. These western casinos are massive...and they solicit RVs to park in their lot, which is enormous...like 2 Super Walmart lots. About 60 RVs and 20 trucks, and no one feels crowded. We're on our way to Tubac, an artsy town that houses a gallery run by the 80-something year old wife of the artist Hugh Cabot, famous for his paintings of the American West. We want to visit the gallery, since we inherited two of his paintings. Before we left on our trip, Leah phoned the gallery and spoke with Olivia Cabot...and she sounded like a character. More in another post.

Hope everyone is well,

Richard