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• Friday, March 18th, Entrance to Hacienda Del Sol in Tucson
• Entrance to the Hacienda Del Sol Grill
• Kathy with Bill & Marie Kidder, bike club friends who have a winter home near Sabino Canyon
• We had a great lunch and visit. Fun to see them here.
• Kathy with Marie & Bill Kidder
• Sabino Canyon National Park
• Waiting for the Tram ride
• Arnie is ready for sightseeing
• A view of the tram from our seats
• Starting out on a 3.6 mile climb to the top station
• The canyon is at the west end of the Catalina Mountains
• There are numerous stands of Saguaro Cactus
• The high point station is in the center gap
• The Sabino river formed this canyon
• The top of the wall is the height of a 40-story building
• The Sabino river
• Sabino river
• At the summit
• There are lots of hiking trails here
• At the summit
• Lots of Saguaro Cacti
• Numerous one-lane bridges over the river
• This one was flooded on an earlier visit
• Numerous spots for picnics and wading
• Taking a break on our hike down
• Nice view of the river
• Arnie takes a break
• One of several pools
• Very high walls on both sides
• Another pool
• The longest bridge crossing
• Kathy waiting for the tram at station four
• Canyon view
• This rock formation is called "The Old Man"
• Former rental on Desert Hills Drive in Green Valley
• The ravine is a haven for wild life including lots of Javalinas
• This was a nice two-bedroom rental in 2013
• One of the smaller one-bedroom rentals in Villas West
• Manuels is our favorite restaurant in Green Valley
• This place is always busy, good Mexican food and service
• A visit to Tubac includes a picture of the Geodesic Dome studio
• A day of the dead statue in Tubac
• This artists town is about 20 miles from the Mexican border
• Kathy at the Feminist Mystique Studio
• She almost bought this hat
• Loved the metalwork statues here, javalinas and coyotes
• We bought one of the rabbits for our backyard garden
• "Damn Ants" (family joke)
• Loved these trees
• This was a really large prickly pear cactus
• Kathy outside of one of our favorite stores
• A Hudson Hornet (late 50s)
• On the bridge to the Tubac Sculpture Garden
• But first we needed a liquid lunch at Shelby's Bistro
• The first statue in the garden
• Lots of entertaining sculptures
• Arnie with friend (and Kathy's thumb)
• Wire-frame horse
• Sculpture Garden
• Sculpture Garden
• Rotating metal cirles on the posts
• Entrance to Tubac
• I played a lot of tennis at this facility
• Palm Sunday at the Desert Hills Lutheran Church
• This church has 4000 members in the winter
• Stopped at Beyond Bread on our way out of Tucson