February 26th – February 28th Green Valley - Desert Trails RV Park Tucson, AZ

February 26th – February 28th Green Valley - Desert Trails RV Park Tucson, AZ

We drove back to Desert Trails RV Park and camped in the dry camping area here,

which means that we parked with no hook ups, but the allotted space here is far

greater than the full hook ups and we get to use all the facilities that the park has to offer. We are parked next to a fellow New Zealander who bought a truck and travel trailer in the States touring for the last 6 months. We enjoyed having him as our neighbor. He had just received a bunch of “The Best of Country Calender”

and loaned them to us. For the non New Zealanders reading this blog, this is a NewZealand Television show that has been going for 40 years. It is documentation of

different people who are involved in the agricultural industries in New Zealand.  I was particularly interested in one of the episodes that featured a long time

friend of mine. Gary and his wife Kaye have been coming to the States to shear

sheep for about 30 years, and for as long as I can remember next year was going tobe his last year he was coming over this way to shear sheep. Unfortunately we

couldn’t watch nearly 500 hours of  DVD that Warren had loaned us,and we were

unable to copy them.
On Sunday we woke up with snow on the ground, extremely unusual for Tucson. We

drove up to Kitt Peak Observatory, that was about a 40 mile drive. The elevation

of Kitt Peak is 6875 ft; there was a lot of snow up there, and the grounds of the Observatory were closed. What we thought was interesting at every pull out on the road local people were parked, and they were either having snow ball fights or

building snowmen. Some people were building them on the back of their pickup trucks and driving down the mountain with them.
Monday we went to The Sonora Desert Museum. Lots of plants and animals of the

region. We saw mountain lions, coyotes, Mexican lobos (wolfs) and a herd of

pig-like animals, javelinas, that are all indigenous to the Sonora region. We got there early for the 1st tour and we learned how the different variety of desert

plants survive in this arid climate. The highlight for us at the Museum was

watching the raptors in free flight. There were 6 different birds we saw in flightwith a commentator explaining the features of each bird, their prey and how they

hunted

hunted.