Sunday afternoon we climbed Sentinel Peak Mtn.

ON Sunday afternoon we drove up "A" mountain called Sentinel Peak Park on the west side of Tucson, beyond the I-10 freeway. The students at the U. of Arizona marked the mountain top with a big red, white and blue A at the top, so we drove up there to see the sights from it. In fact Tucson is ringed completely by mountains, there are 5 mountain ranges surrounding it.

There were people up there looking at the sights with us, and it was interesting to look back over the flat city at the downtown core with its handsome skyscrapers. The rest of the city is pretty low profile, only a few towering buildings scattered here and there.

The domestic architecture here is very interesting. I find many of the American churches are very pretty to look at.

Visited Joanne's for a few more beads, today Monday will be my last visit to the beading ladies so I wanted to have something to do while I joined them this afternoon.

Paid our last visit to the cowboy restaurant Tucson McGraws and we both ate a huge plate of the most delicious ribs ever invented. Yum yum, and they do "loaded mashed potatoes", which are delicious too.

Hmmmm, it's nearly time to roll on out of Tucson. It's been a great month, indeed.

It poured with rain last night, it had felt as if it would for several days, so finally it did. Today there is water on the ground everywhere, seems quite unusual as it's been so very hot. But now has cooled down to almost chilly here, what a difference from the 90s down to the 60s again. Still warms up in the afternoons though.

Hope we don't have sandstorms in Pilot Knob as we did a couple of years ago. It was pretty hard to clean up the sand from absolutely everywhere after that. The sandstorm lasted nearly 8 hours or so, and we were told that it happens there about twice a year. Ick. We even had sand in our teeth and ears after that one.