Go West old man!: Tucson 2

We took this from a simple errands & a hike day to a long winded day pretty easily. That’s how a day off works, isn’t it?

Went out do run a few errands, like locating the office where Carlene has an eye appointment in 2 weeks. That became just slightly complicated when we went to the address she had and it wasn’t there! Turned out to be a simple error, it was across the street and the name was facing away from us.

Next was a hike in a city park where dogs on leash are welcome. We found the park. The parking lot was under construction and we couldn’t park there. Carlene found another park on the map a couple blocks north, one with a trail around a lake. It had a steep drop to the water and the sign said it was reclaimed water, no swimming or wading allowed. We walked a bit but it was very clear it would be torture for Skye to walk 8’ from water and not be able to swim. So we walked a block north because there was supposed to be another trail up there. It went a block along the dry spillway where a few homeless people had their camps. Then it came to a busy 4 lane road. Turn around and try again. I had seen another entry to the first park on another road on the map. That turned out to be a good one. We did a couple miles in there, along trails and beside a wash. Nice desert trails.

Then to a grocery store, bike shop and Dunkin’ for Carlene’s iced coffee.

Finally back to camp! the city traffic on this east side of Tucson is pretty good. Lots of 4 lane roads, very little traffic issues. But it gets tiring.

We just had a sunset walk with Skye around the campground and I’m ready to sit for a while.

Off to Safford and boondocking again tomorrow. We’ll be there maybe 5 days.