Goodbye Tucson

We’ve been busy, just living here day-to-day in Tucson. We celebrated our 38^th wedding anniversary on October 23^rd with a nice dinner at Vivace Restaurant on the north edge of Tucson, next to the foothills. It was a beautiful, warm evening so we sat outside.

   

We extended our 21-day stay at the Davis Monthan AFB Family Campground for another few weeks on November 3^rd. The campground has slowly filled up with snowbirds who are staying here for three to five months.

We have been hiking around the old golf course across the street from the campground. The base closed the golf course on May 1, 2018 due to increased operating expenses (watering costs) and decreased use. Blanchard Golf Course had been open for 56 years. Base personnel now use any of the 5 public golf courses in Tucson.  

We stopped several times by one of our favorite places in Tucson, Roma Imports. The small Italian business serves lunch and dinner. They make many different home-made, and then frozen, Italian entrees for sale. We like to pick up a few meals for the road as they’re easy to prepare when we overnight somewhere.

Another place we like to go to is Bisbee Breakfast Club. The original café is in Bisbee, Arizona but now there are five other locations in Arizona, including Phoenix, Mesa and several in Tucson. It’s a great place for breakfast or lunch.

This past Monday we visited the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. It is about 20-miles away in the mountains west of Tucson near the Saguaro National Park. It is a botanical garden, earth sciences center, natural history museum, zoo, and art gallery. Our favorite exhibit is the hummingbird aviary. We last visited in March 2015 and saw a tiny little hummingbird nest with babies.

We leave Tucson on Friday and head towards Texas.

Steve & Julie Cornelius