Our Drive into Arizona

-

Our Drive into Arizona

After what seemed like weeks, we finally left Texas in our rearview mirror.  The landscape changed almost instantly.  We left the rolling hills of central & western Texas and began seeing more of a desert environment as we entered New Mexico.



This was a very short stay and saw very little of the state as we continued our trek southwesterly into Arizona.  Welcome to the Sonoran Desert!





Our first stop, Rincon West RV Resort.  A 55+ Community with a mix of RVs and park models (mobile homes).  A beautiful, well-manicured community with enough activities to keep anyone busy.  If you get bored here is because you wanted to.





After a few days, our Mustang arrived and some serious exploration of the city began



That is the driver in the Mustang while yours truly is operating the controls to lower the ramp with the car on it.  The truck driver was providing instructions to a very scared owner.



We stayed in Tucson and Rincon West RV Resort for a full week before heading south to Mexican border and the Refuge.



Comments

  1. AnonymousDecember 22, 2019 at 1:03 PM

    Great to see you posting again - look forward to keeping up with your travel.
    Miss you!
    hal

    ReplyDelete
  2. OIT and MeDecember 23, 2019 at 11:51 AM

    That landscape looks a little like FL!

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Masked Bobwhite Quail

-
Image
Masked Bobwhite Quail As mentioned in previous blogs, one of the missions of the Buenos Aires NWR, is to reintroduce this endangered bird. One of our many jobs here is to care for this bird once a week.  There are other volunteers that are the primary care givers.  They perform many tasks daily in providing care to the “pens”; where they grow before being released into the wild.  Others also fill in like us, making sure the quail have food and water daily. There is a display pen near the visitor center where several quails are kept for public viewing.  The flight pen is for staff only access and is about a mile away from the visitor center.  The birds here are banded and reintroduced to their natural habitat before being released into the wild. Locked and electrified fence to discourage predators, providing access to the flight pens. Immediately upon entry into this fenced in area, one must step into a Vircon bath to disinfect our shoes.   There is one mor
Read more

Buenos Aires NWR

-
Image
Buenos Aires NWR First a little history of this area, the following is a summary, directly from the Buenos Aires website: In the 1800's, the Altar Valley was an open grassland teeming with large herds of pronghorn. Masked bobwhite quail calls filled the early morning summer air. The grasslands blanketed the landscape, uninterrupted as far as the eye could see. Pedro Aguirre, Jr. came to this location and started a stagecoach and freight line that would connect Tucson and the mining towns of Arivaca, Arizona, and the town of Altar in Sonora, Mexico. He built a homestead here in 1864 and named it Buenos Ayres, or "good air," because of the constant winds found there.   Aguirre was the first person to develop artificial sources. He began by constructing a large reservoir near the head of the watershed at the confluence of the Lopez and Compartidero washes. With water in place, cattle industry exploded.   But the cattle industry suffered a setback. A severe drough
Read more

The Sonoran Outpost

-
Image
“The Sonoran Outpost” Just a few pictures to show you the neighborhood in which we live.   Yes, it’s a compound, surrounded by a chain link fence, topped with razor wire.   An electric gate allows access for us.     We call it, home!   You can see our truck, marking our site. Baboquivari Mountains Home! In addition to the volunteer RVs, there are several mobile trailers here.  One of them is called the Community Center.  We use it for our twice monthly Volunteer Potluck dinners, and it contains the laundry room as well. The other trailers are temporary housing, for staff biologists and wildlife specialists.    
Read more