Monday – January 23 – Today was a gorgeous day so we went off to see the Colossal Cave Mountain Park. The cave is a dry cave, the only one in North America, and was very interesting, the only other place with dry caves is Afganistan. The cave was not as open and as spacious feeling as Luray Caves in Virginia or the cave in Kentucky but it had some real interesting formations. There were 363 steps so we got our exercise! We also toured the park there – the ranch and museum.

When we left there we took the scenic route back to the park and it was a pretty drive. We saw mountains from the other side as to what we have already seen and for the most part the landscape was a little more lush, which means there was grass although it is not the grass we know!

Tuesday – January 24 – Well, were we surprised last night, we were able to watch the election results with Peter Mansbridge hosting. I guess there are enough Canadians down here that they felt it was worth having it available. Can’t say I was thrilled with the results but it will be interesting to see how the conservatives do, just relieved that it is a minority government.

Today we decided it was time to do more grocery shopping so headed into the Wal Mart Super Centre in Tucson. There appeared to be a road on the map that headed in that direction so we tried it and what a lovely drive, not a lot of traffic and lots of nice scenery. I am fascinated with all the signage that says “Do Not Enter When Flooded”. I guess when they get the rain in the spring the roads must also flood – don’t know where you would go as these signs are all over the place on the secondary roads. It is hard to believe that the roads could flood when all we can see now is bone dry river beds! I think it would be a totally different look here in the spring.

The other signs that are abundant are signs with a cow stating “Open Range”. In a lot of cases these signs are right near new housing developments so I wonder if they can expect cattle to be roaming through their back yards!! Something we are curious about is where the wildlife gets drinking water as it is so dry, guess there must be water around somewhere for them.

John tried to set up the satellite dish today but the site is fine gravel so nothing to anchor it to and with the wind it just blew over so he quickly gave up on that project. Maybe the next spot won’t be so windy! Guess it is a good thing that we are not big TV watchers, although with the cable here we get a lot of channels, just miss the Canadian content.

Wednesday – January 25 – Well, there was rain during the night and early this morning. It is sorely needed but there wasn’t enough to do much good. At one point this morning the sun was shining and it was raining when we looked out one side of the trailer and when we looked out the other side the sky was black and there was a gorgeous rainbow.

They were calling for rain off and on all day so we decided to go to Sierra Vista and pick up a couple of things. As it turned out it would have been a nice day for touring as it ended up being sunny and quite warm. Oh well, tomorrow we will head for Douglas.