March 19-22, 2018 The original plan was to spend 4 days in Gila Bend in the Sonoran Desert near Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. However, Richard read about the London Bridge in Lake Havasu City so we decided to change our plans to two days at Gila Bend and two days to visit the London Bridge (more on that later). We stayed at a nice KOA in Gila Bend, about 60 miles north of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. We…
March 16-18, 2018 We left the beautiful KOA in Tucson for a completely different camping experience in the Catalina mountains north of Tucson. This is a beautiful state park with paved roads and camping pads, surrounded by stunning mountains. As soon as we pulled in we noticed the many tiny prairie dogs that call this park home. They are so cute and only about 5″ tall. We had heard that the scenic…
March 2018 The Sonoran Desert, home to the Saguaro National Park, is the only place in the world that you can see the amazing saguaro cactus. Saguaros grow very slowly at first, an inch or so per year during their first 6 to 8 years. It may be 70 years before they grow to be 7′ tall and sprout their first branches, or arms. They reach 40-50 feet by age 150! It was so amazing to see the cactus forest…
March 9-15, 2018 Since my last posting (ending February 24) the motorhome was parked in Phoenix but I was in Hawaii, visiting my dad, and Richard was in Florida visiting friends and his mom, so there is no news from Phoenix. We will have to go back there sometime so that we can explore the area. The day after I returned from Hawaii we headed towards Tucson. On the way we stopped for fuel at a Pilot station and spotted…