Cathey was feeling much better today! We were both tired of huddling near the trailer so we decided to go to the Sonoran Desert Museum on the west side of Tucson. Unfortunately, before we got there we passed Old Tucson and turned in there instead. Old Tucson is kind of a village of movie sets that have been used for western movies over the past 70 years. Some of the buildings are real, with interiors, but many are just fronts, as you would expect for a movie set. Some entrepreneur has turned the place into a mini-theme park with various shows going on at different times through out the day. There are also rides – small train that goes around the park, antique replica cars that go around a track on a guide rail, a big carousel and of course saddle horses for rides out into the desert. We walked around the park and looked at everything and saw the Can-Can dance show.
By the time we left there, Cathey was done walking/standing for the day and we abandoned going to the Desert Museum and headed south just for a ride to look over Green Valley, AZ. Green Valley is about 20 miles south of Tucson and has been the site of a lot of new growth in the last few years. We enjoyed driving around and looking at the housing; it’s a very nice looking community.
We enjoyed a nice dinner at a local restaurant and then plotted a course toward our current home. I found a road on the map that cuts across the desert due east and connects with the road that the RV Park is on. It worked fine and we probably cut our return trip by 10 miles or more.
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