On The Road To Tubac...

Since Peg has a cousin in Tubac, Arizona, which is near the Mexican border, we decided to head south with the car and visit Cathy and Marshall Giesy. We left the Motorhome at Desert Shadows and drove the two hours down Rt. 10 to Rt. 19. One thing we noticed as we got closer to the Mexican border was that the road signs began to show mileage in kilometers, not miles. We were actually going up in altitude and Tubac is considered the "High Desert". The temperatures were a bit cooler there even though we were actually further south.

Cathy and Marshall have been building their own house for close to 15 years and it is constructed as a adobe home with a wonderful array of neat looking rooms. It is a large house with a Mexican/Southwest influence. They have a large white dog named "Luna" and were dog sitting for another friends dog, Buddy.

Peg and I stayed there overnight and Cathy, Peg, Luna, Buddy and I took a walk up a hilly road near their home in order to look down upon the area and get a perspective as to where we were. I'm not sure how many miles we walked, but we saw many different kinds of cactus and the surrounding mountains were great. Arizona is an interesting place with the roads in the lowlands and many communities surrounded by mountains.

We really enjoyed our stay there and Cathy and Marshall invited us back with the RV. Not sure if we will try that, but it was really nice of them to offer. As we left their home to head back to Casa Grande, we stopped in Tubac to take a photo of the town and the mountains in the background. It is a small town filled with art and artists and an interesting place to wander around...