Tucson Mountain Park

We didn't find anything too exciting in the Yuma area. Campgrounds were scarce unless we were to go a long ways off the main roads. We started in to one that was 18 miles of dirt road but the washboards were so bad that we could only do 8 mph .... was going to take forever to get there .... and then back out.We spent a night camping for free and decided to move on to Tucson. We spent a couple of days north of the city in mall-urbia. Actually our campground in the Catalina Mountains was really beautiful but the area is growing up around with every store you could think of. Some of that was good as we spent a day or two finishing some Christmas shopping and getting some gifts shipped and got to re-stock at Costco and Trader Joe's.

Cheap gas down here at $2.95/gal. Very cold at Catalina .... was 23 when we got up and the water to our van was frozen. We were fine ... it was their faucet. We had electricity plug in so had our little space heater quietly purring away. We got up early and saw the eclipse as the moon was setting. Then the cold weather broke and we got 2 days of rain. They say it was a record breaker for Tucson with 1-1/2 inches in 24 hours. We didn't think it was that bad ... but we did find some indoor activities for the day. At least it was not as cold at night. So we are at one of our favorite places west of Tucson in a county campground right next to Suguaro National Park. Fog in the desert this morning was a pretty eerie sight ....
quite beautiful. It burned off early and we hiked some on the desert floor and then read in the sun for the afternoon. We love the new access to library books on our kindles! We are starting to think about where we want to spend Christmas and are looking at Organ Pipe Cactus National Park. Then maybe back here for New Years Eve. Still thinking about maybe heading a little farther east, but not sure. We are moving pretty slow and enjoying the dry climate.