All in All, it's just a nother..." Brick in the Wall"

Another nice day in Tucson. Temperatures got up to about 25 degrees C. today! We started off by going down to the Main Office this morning and participated in a "Newbie" conference. They invite all new people to the park, and a bunch of volunteers tell you all about what is going on, and where you can do it! It was good, with a bunch of good info. We did learn to go downtown Tucson to the Visitors Information Booth and pick up a Passport, which give you entrance to 42 different attractions in the Tucson area for 1/2 price! We will put this to work! Cost only $15.00 and you will make that up on the first attraction you go to! They sell over 50 passports a day here. Do the math....


Was messing with the camera this morning and took a pic of our site at Rincon...


We drove downtown and parked to visit the Information Booth. This is the tallest building in Tucson. Very nice downtown area, seems to be lots to see and do and is very visitor friendly.

This is across the street from that big building and houses the Visitors Information Booth.

We headed home and had lunch, and decided it was too nice to stay home, so we jumped on the bikes and decided to drive down to Nogales, AZ. It is another border town with Mexico. We took Hwy. 19 down, which was very busy and fast.... speed limit is 75 miles per hour, and for whatever reason, all the mileage signs were in Klms. Go figure.... made me feel like I was back home.

We made it down to Nogales, and yes, just another brick in the wall..... the famous Mexico fence was in full bloom. This Town is built on hills, and is divided down the middle by the "Wall"...

We stopped here for some pics, and the border patrol came to check us out.... just over the fence on the left of the picture is Mexico, Arizona is on the right of course...

Judy snapped this one, looking the other way up the road...

He is Judy checking out the wall....

We stopped at Micky Dee's for an ice cream, and sat outside.... this is a view of Mexico from Micky's from yard....


We took a combination of Hwy. 82, 83, and 10 on the way home. It was an incredible route to take through all the mountains in the area, there are a lot of them. No traffic on these back roads, it was great... these pics were from a pull off area...

Very dramatic in this area...




Judy was taking some pictures when these two big rocks fell down beside her.... yikes, I yelled at her, but she said, "not to worry, I have my helmet on!".......

Up the road a short piece, and we came across this historic site...this is a very historic part of the west, and the Apache Cochise had a large part to play in that history. In the weeks to come you will hear more of this history....

There was a family shrine at this location that we checked out. It has been here since the late 1800's. A family made it in remembrance of their son who went off to fight the Indians...
Candles still burn inside!

Judy was up top and took this shot looking down from the Shrine...

Cochise was at it again here, more history of the area...

It was a beautiful drive back up to Tucson, we enjoyed every minute of it.... Stopped to take pictures of this mountain, yes that is a bunch of snow up there...seems funny to look up and see the snow, while you are nice and warm riding your motorcycle... go figure...we found a sign just up the road that told us we were at about 4200 feet, which would put this mountain at about 6,000 feet I figure. It did cool off a bit at this elevation, but we soon dropped back down to the desert floor, and were stopped by our friends at the border patrol of course...

We saw lots and lots of this today....

Just another great day. Made it home in time to live pause the Leaf game so we could go jump in the hot tub of course! Hockey game was awesome! Leafs 3 to nothin over the Devils.... love it...all the new guys played great! There is some hope maybe... Talked to Dr. Hollinger this afternoon to rub in the trade a bit more, and he did not seem to like that too much... His new Flames kind of Flamed Out in their first game! Tis hockey!

Talked to Kristina (aka pack leader) and she was telling me the weather was not too good today from Toronto to Woodstock... yuck... She also reports that her one cat, Graham is starting to stand up to that dog that came in and tried to take over! Good for you Graham....

Tomorrow is supposed to rain here..... yuck.... we need an "off" day anyways to do some mundane tasks that seem to be in need of doing on a regular basis...

Was able to edit the blog tonight using Judy's computer, as mine is not behaving properly....

Till tomorrow...