Winter Trip 2023/24 - Tucson to Las Vegas Bay

 

Winter Trip 2023/24 - Tucson Last Week

Start the week out with a St. Patrick's Day Parade with decorated golf carts

Line dancers

And Green Beer

 

Winter Trip 2023/24 - 2nd week March

Start out the week taking Gary to Sabino Canyon to do the hike to the Dam.

The trail is wetter than last week

The Falls are still running well but the Pool looks smaller

The sky looks foreboding 

So head out to find the trail to the top of the dam.  We cross the bridge

and I head up a rocky hill

Gary changed his mind and joins me

We make it to the top

Sabino Creek is running strong with all the rains we've had

Time to head out to bear the dark clouds owing us

We made it out dry but hear a thunderstorm hit shortly after we left.

Finished the M&M doorstop rock someone had requested back in NC

Tucson meets friends on the wash

We're invited to a home made cream party

Delish!

One week to go!

 

Winter Trip 2023/24 - First Week March

Gary finally recovering.  We head downtown to walk around 4th Street and stop at the Train Museum

In the drive home, I get some shots of some of the area Murals

Gary went shooting with a friend again, I went on a hike with his wife and another woman.

A 2 mile hike to the Dam.

It's a level hike

As we get to the dam it gets rocky

Quite a bit of water running down

We walk the nature trail on the way back and find an interesting Crested Saguaro.

We get a bit of an Airshow above the RV Park

And we finally get in an 8 mile bike ride.

We were supposed to go listen to a friend play guitar and sing at an open Mike but they canceled.  I had seen that Gabriel Ayala a classical guitarist from the local Yaqui Tribe was playing at the 1st Thursday at the Museum of Art.  

Gary grabbed a hotdog at the food truck

Gabriel played in the lower level. He is very good. He played at Obama's Inauguration.

Really liked this exhibit.  The artist dedicated the work to" Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls [MMIWG] to assist with awareness of the crisis. Fabricated red ribbon dresses represent mother, on wooden frame, accompanied by three freestanding daughters. Tabs on the dresses indicate paper dolls, dolls that after being played with are thrown away. Four medicine shields represent hope"

This painting struck me with it's vivid reality 

Craming in a lot in our last 3 weeks.