Tucson PimaAir – CatalinaStPk Hike – Tohono Chul (first)

Visited the Pima Air and Space Museum on the far south east side of Tucson, on a screamingly windy day.  Here are my pictures in the random order that I saw them.  Given the wind conditions we limited most of our viewing to the craft inside the hangers.  The tour starts in the largest hanger, which is about 3x larger than the three subsequent hangers.

The museum has a good web site which includes an exhaustive list of all their inventory, and various instructional videos.

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Hike in Catalina State Park.  We bought an AZ State Park pass. Most of the hikes here are long, and so we’ve been told, steep.  Ours was was of the few shorter loops.

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Tohono Chul is a botanical garden located in NW Tucson. Medium sized, very interesting, of course lots of cactus.  Lots of pics of cactus, as we’re trying to learn about the spikey critters.  Our own yard needs some additions. There’s an eatery here, a gift shop, a grow area for small cacti for sale.   Jean and Joe W, and friend Tim were along.

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July 2021 Willow River, Pettibone, We-no-nah

Camping trip, Walls, Howards.  Destination, Willow River State Park, NW part of the state, near Hudson. Has a big waterfall.  The group stopped on the way up to hike in the Black River State Forest (code name “Tick Alley”).

Throwgolf won by Tim, acknowledged as the greatest Throwgolfer of his generation, holding the record for major championships (1).  The course was considered difficult, with trees, brambles, bushes, and other assorted shrubberies serving as obstacles, and these, combined with huge distances (40 ‘ !!) between buckets, was a supreme test of grit and concentration.

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Tim and Eillen next camped at Pettibone private campground, just over the bridge from down town LaCrosse.  Our next door neighbors were Jean W and Joe G, in their shiny Airstream.  Festivities were sponsored by the wider Wilhlem clan and included pontoon boat rides and a wedding reception, held on the Pettibone grounds.

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Pictures of the Goode family canoe before being sold off.  A We-no-nah Sundowner.

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