Off to Tucson

The morning that we planned to leave CA, Brian went to remove the tire covers on the RV. He felt a groove on the inside of the right rear tire. We had the tires changed on the way to CA, remember? They put better, and slightly larger tires on the RV in Amarillo. The shocks on the right side rubbed the tire. We were able to get right into a tire shop in Paso Robles and were on our way by 1:00. We went to Bakersfield because we wanted to get some other work done on the RV. On Saturday, we drove through Lake Havasu City, AZ where the London Bridge is currently located. Yes, the London Bridge built in 1824. When the London Bridge started to fall down, they replaced it. They brought the old one to Lake Havasu City, AZ in 1971 and set it back up!

The first week and a half that we were here it was really hot (100). But as they like to say out west, "It's a dry heat". I agree with my mother-in-law who says that my oven is a dry heat, but it's still hot! It cooled off for a week, but now it's back up to the low 90's. The heat is the reason that we'll only be here until mid-May. The nice thing about Tucson is that there are a lot of things that can be done in partial days. Our schedule hasn't been the greatest, but we soon have a 7-day stretch off. Our RV park is close to an Air Force base. We got to see the Blue Angels for four days straight! They did two days of practice, then a two-day air show. Joy loves the doggie park here in the RV park. So far we've gone to Saguaro Nat'l Park, the local mission, the Titan Missile Museum (very interesting! it showed how war was prevented!), and today we went to Biosphere 2. Biosphere 2 is where 8 people lived inside this man-made "miniature earth" for two years. Brian enjoyed seeing the engineering aspects of it. During the time the people lived in it, oxygen levels ran really low. I enjoyed seeing it, but the whole time I was thinking of that verse about God looking from heaven and laughing at the foolishness of men. The smartest people on the planet got together to try to make a miniature earth and they do a pretty good job, but they made serious miscalculations about something that we can't live without. It has cost some billionaire in Texas $250 million so far. Sure, they learned some things about the earth, but I still think it was/is a giant waste of time and money. Work has gone pretty good so far. It will be over really fast. We only have 6 more weeks here.