Day 23 Wednesday February 4, 2009

The RV Park that we ended up at was called Beaudry’s; it is attached to a large RV dealership and service center on the near east side of Tucson just off of I-10 near the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. It’s a rather large RV Park (364 sites) but not as large as some that we would see later in the day.
We decided that the first order of business was to locate the Diamond J RV Park that we had failed to find yesterday. We headed for a book store first to get a better street map of Tucson. Then we decided to head west on one of the major thoroughfares and get on I-10 near downtown. That was a bad decision since it was much farther to downtown than we had expected and when we got there we could not get on I-10 because of construction. We ended up in stop-and-go traffic for several miles and by the time we got on I-10, we were almost to our exit to go west on SH 86. We did locate the Diamond J RV Park many miles from where we had our Lucy and Desi moment yesterday. We also looked at three other RV Parks but did not find the one that said “This is the place.” Later in the day we drove to Catalina State Park to look at the camping facilities there. It’s a beautiful park in the foothills of the Catalina Mountains and of course Cathey said “This is the place.” I would have agreed with her but the sites at state parks have only water and electricity – no sewer hookups. We could do it by using the trailer plumbing minimally but cold is forecast for the next three or four days and I knew that wasn’t going to happen. So I said “No, this isn’t the place.”
On the way back to Beaudry’s we came across AJ’s Supermarket and Deli, which was a place that we visited last spring when we were here. They have a nice outdoor seating area so we stopped and got some food from the deli and had a nice supper there.