Week 3

Sunday, May 16th: Plan was to camp at the Chiricahua National Monument in very southeastern Arizona. Instead, we motel it in Willcox, along the interstate in southeastern Arizona. We will use Willcox as a hub for a couple of days to visit surrounding sites instead of breaking and pitching camp each day at different places for the next few days. We do a big figure "8" visiting ghost and desert towns south of Willcox.

Monday, May 17th: Instead of camping at Cochise Stronghold, we are still at Willcox, but we do travel to Tombstone as planned. We return back to Willcox for the night.

Tuesday, May 18th: Plan was to travel to Kartchner State Park a little further west in Arizona. Instead, we do lots of dirt roads going to Fort Bowie and later to Chiricahua National Monument and back to Willcox.

Wednesday, May 19th: Plan was to go thru the caverns at Kartchner State Park. Instead, today is a laundry day. Also visited the Rex Allen Museum in Willcox.

Thursday, May 20th: plan was to leave Kartchner S.P. and travel south west to Patagonia Lake State Park. We left Willcox, drove west to Tucson, got the memory cards transferred to CDs and then drove in a clock wise loop south to Patagonia Lake S.P. (Nice park, some shitty people -- turns out that this is "a party" park.)

Friday, May 21st: Plan is to go south to Nogales, Arizona, then to walk across to Nogales, Mexico and to return to Patagonia Lake S.P. We do.

Saturday, May 22nd: Plan is to drive north up the interstate with several side visits to old Spanish missions and maybe an indian reserve or two. Continuing north through Tucson we are to camp at Catalina State Park. We do. Along the way we did stop in at Tumacacor, Tubac and San Xavier Del Bac. Catalina State Park is almost deserted. Great place north of Tucson, set against the Catalina mountains. We also tour west of Tucson and find the Tucson Mountain Park, Old Tucson Studios, the Arizona-Senoran Desert Museum and Saguaro National Park, West Section.