A Road Trip to Tucson
November 25, 2006 on 7:59 pm | In Main |We spent the day on a road trip to Tucson. We have been there before, but there are many sites in the area we have not seen.
Our first stop was Colossal Cavern. This is a dry cave, meaning the formations are no longer active. But there were still many stalagmites, stalactites, and curtain walls, just covered in dust. The cave certainly lived up to its name, although we do not actually see that much of it. The cave was well lit, and had smooth floors and stairs were added to make the trip through the cave an easy one. I thought Sean and Ethan liked the cave, but they said they liked our later stops better. Cortney and I liked the cave.
Our next stop was Saguaro National Park. This was a nice park, but the Tucson desert landscape wasn’t any different than that in Phoenix, so it wasn’t that new to us. The best part of this trip was when we pulled off the road to climb on some large rock formations.
The last part of our trip was Sabino Canyon. This was another nice park area. Here, we took a tram ride to see the Canyon. That turned out to be a good idea, as it was late in the afternoon at the time, and the kids were starting to get tired. Sabino Canyon also had some great scenery, with mountains, rock formations, and desert landscaping mixed with deciduous trees growing from the creek bed. The only bad thing about this part of the trip was the part of the canyon was closed due to flood damage from earlier this year. We’ll just have to go back again.
Buy the time we had dinner and arrived home, Princess was in her crate for well over eleven hours. I was amazed she made it that long without having an accident. We rewarded her with lots of attention for lasting that long alone.
I will show some of the pictures we took today sometime tomorrow.
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