There aren't that many hiking trails that allow dogs here but we hear that we can hike Brown Mountain trail with Tucson, so of we go. The trailhead starts at the Gilbert Ray Campground
It's in the Tucson Mountain Park adjacent to Saguaro National Park
Up the first mountain
Glad I'm walking and not riding a bike
You don't want to get too close to those cacti riding by, they do jump out and bite you
Tucson checks out the trail below
This Saguaro seems to be saying How do you do?
Another hill looms ahead
Hopefully the final peak
We reach the far side of the loop. That's the Desert Museum in the background
Well, my RV is sold and we are in the Rec Hall and a young couple walks in and asks if we know of any RV's for sale in the Park. Gary says mine is for sale, do you want to look at it? When we walk out of the Rec Room the husband points over to Gary's 5th wheel and says "I'm really looking for something like that one!"
They take a look and are very interested so we start looking more seriously for a replacement. We drove 1 hr to Benson to look at one that turned out to be a total disaster. We continued on to the next town to view another one and fell in love with it. It was a little more than we wanted to pay but had a rear kitchen, opposing couches and was in really good shape except for evidence of a leak in one of the bedroom closets. They said they'd look into it and repair it and give us a call when it was done. Meanwhile, another one like it popped up on Craigslist for 2/3 the price so we went to take a look and ended up hauling it home.
So, out with the old and in with the new (to us). Between what we were selling the old one for and the insurance check from my hitting his back end in Steamboat Spings, it was almost paid for.
Goodbye to the old
Pretty worthless kitchen
and cramped living quarters
and in with the new:
His and Her couches
And finally a kitchen to cook in! Gary took the TV shelf out of the bedroom and put it in the kitchen for even more counter space when needed
I start work at the Desert Museum. The commute isn't too bad.
I usually run into the same commuters most mornings
I am working in the Membership Office. I enter all of the data on renewal and new memberships into the computer. I arrive to a backlog of a month. That's OK cause I get to roam the museum on my lunch hour.
The Big Horn Sheep
Saguaro Cactus with Cactus Wren
There is an aviary with Hummingbirds too
The Grey Fox
My favorite guy - Cruz is a two year old Cougar. He was found in San Jose, CA in March weighing only 15 lb was nursed back to health and released 3 times unsuccessfully into the wild so became a resident of the Sonoran Desert Museum in 2013
He is a handsome boy!
The Mexican Grey Wolves are cool. They are critically endangered native wolf. Only about 50 of them left in the wild . Their plaintiff howl breaks my heart.
