Pima Air Museum

We went to visit the Pima Air Museum in Tucson and the airplane boneyard  at Davis-Montham AFB.  The museum was very interesting with a lot a great displays. We took a hour tram ride around the grounds where there are over 300 planes on display.  We then boarded a bus for Davis-Montham and toured around the boneyard where there are over 4000 planes from around the world stored there.

We have spent a lot of time at the pool. doing a little hunting for some Geocaches, playing a little horseshoes and just hanging out.  Have really enjoyed our visit with the SoCal Plendls. We will be hitting the road ourselves on Monday, heading for home via Colorado and Iowa. 

Garret

California Company

Jeff, Vicki, Garrett and Justin are visiting from California.  They arrived last Friday.  Yesterday we went to the Mesa Market which is 55 covered acres of vendors.  That is about 2.5 miles of things to look at  and buy.  Today we got up and headed our for Superior and some rock hunting.  We did about a mile or so of backroading, over rock and down into gullies and creeks to arrive at our destination - an old Perlite mine.  Imbeded in the rock face are obsidian rocks or Apache Tears as they are called locally.  So we spent some time with hammer and chisel digging out the rocks.  Garret was in 7th heaven and was very helpful in identifying some other rocks for us.  Jeff really enjoyed the off-roading element. I had a small run-in with a Cholla cactus but Jeff pulled the stickers out with a pliers so not too much harm done. We left there and headed to Globe for some lunch.  Then a short drive up to Tonto National Monument to check out the Cliff Dwellings. We were able to explore the dwelling and take in the fantastic view of Roosevelt Lake and valley.  Finished the day with soak in the hot tub.

Garrett the Rockhound

View from the Cliff Dwelling

Tonto Cliff Dwelling