Today we met some friends from the SKP club about 10:00 and headed up into the Santa Catalina mountains for a day off-roading in our Jeeps. What a beautiful day it was for riding in the mountains. Sun was shining all day long, not a cloud in the sky and beautiful scenery all the way!
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| Tucson in the valley below! We love Tucson and this is one reason! |
There were 3 Jeeps and 4 couples for the day's adventure. We did not have any particular target or destination. One couple spends the winter here every year and had a better idea then the rest of us about the area we were headed into, so their guidance was an important component for the day. But we all just wanted to enjoy the day as it happened rather then meet some predetermined goals.
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| The caravan for the day! |
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| The road to the snow covered mountains in the background |
We could see snow on the mountains in the distance and one of our crowd said we ought to go up for a snowball fight! Sounded like a good idea so off we went in that direction!
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| Heading for the snow covered mountain! |
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| Lunch break on the trail |
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| A road hard to travel |
We took a side road toward the snow covered mountains; however, it turned out to be really very rough road with large rocks making the road too uncomfortable for some of our party.
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| Snow covered mountains were getting closer! |
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| A "forest"of the iconic Saguaro cactus |
As we were travelling across the back road to somewhere we spotted 3 large solar panels sticking up from the countryside. We had seen nothing to indicate a need for some electricity so we were puzzled.
As we moved down the road we caught sight of a cattle holding area and the frame of an old non-functioning windmill so we suspect the solar panels were powering water pumps to bring water to the cattle.
We ended up on the north side of the mountains (Tucson is on the south side). We stopped for dinner at a Mexican restaurant and then we headed back our individual ways until we meet on the road again. We know we will see at least one couple in the Keys next winter.
Always at home, no matter where we are!!
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