For the past few days, we've been in the Tucson area. First we camped and hiked at Catalina SP, just north of the city. Walked well maintained trails with great vistas and lots of cactus. Amazing to see the Saguaro cactus which can be hundreds of years old.Leaving Catalina, we stopped to see some "old" friends, Mike & Vickie. We had a great evening at their home, with Mike making his trademark margaritas and Vickie cooking a true Mexican dinner with tamales, served with 4 different "carne", and "mexican pizza" which was soft burritos topped with mexican cheese. YUM !
Next, on to Kartchner Caverns where we again found a great Arizona State Park to set up camp. The cave wasn't discovered until 1974, and the explorers kept it a secret for 7 years while working out a plan for preservation. The Kartchner family who owned the land, sold it to the state at a donation price. After much research and work, the caverns were finally opened to the public in 1999. Absolutely incredible formations 
Looks like we didn't totally escape Winter! The big winter storm sweeping across the country has hit us with sleet and temps going down to 30 tonight. Morey is set with a temperature sensor in our holding tank area, and will get up in the middle of the night and place our electric warmer in the compartment if necessary. Tomorrow and Wednesday are expected to be even colder with night time temps down to 23. BRRRRRRR!
(We know our blog readers aren't giving us much sympathy!)
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