Tucson to Pearce, AZ

Saturday March 9th

The sun was back this morning, but there is still a lot of clouds passing by which makes for a great light show on the mountains.  

I went to the grocery store for a few things and got the Suburban filled up; gas in this area is around $3.50/gal.  Then back to the never-ending job of getting everything stowed and secured for the next leg of the journey.  We got on the road a few minutes before noon.  

The next stop is Larry & Liz's Ranchito near Pearce, AZ, which is less than a hundred miles from Tucson and about 25 miles S of Wilcox, AZ.  Their menagerie is down one since they lost Larry's roping horse in the past year; he was over 30 years old.  But they still have two horses and Henry the donkey, and LJ the cat, and Mad Max and Emma, the two standard poodles.  Liz is retired now so they have a little more freedom than they have had up until now.  They have a trailer hookup near the barn because they used to come and stay there in their travel trailer before they built the house. We visited for awhile and then setup the trailer.  They had a dutch oven cooking outside with pork ribs, then when the ribs were ready Liz made some cornbread which went into another dutch oven.  It was a great meal topped off with some cabernet  from a friend of Larry's who retired to the Napa valley and started his own winery.