Living It Up Tucson Style

This post is coming to you via the lovely community of Saddle Brook about 18 miles north of Tucson. The dad's best man (and partner in crime from another life time) is kindly playing host to Dave and I for the next 10 days. We arrived yesterday after an uneventful flight, yes, uneventful. No panic attacks during take off, no tears of fear when we hit turbulence. I think I may have reached a turning point in my fear of flying! The people at Dollar Rent a Car were quite pleasant. Two hours after we arrived in Phoenix we hit the highway heading south. Having never been to Arizona before it is amazing to take in the landscape, people and crazy drivers! A huge THANKS to Dave who piloted our Dodge Caravan as I am too scared to drive such a large vehicle that isn't mine (let me just say the Woodward's don't have a good record with stationary objects in parking lots!).

Saddle Brook is a funny place. It is like a gated community, but without a gate. According to Dave it is a far cry from the "ghetto" style Best Western he stayed in the last time that he was here!

Today we headed out for a 3 hour ride. We went north to this Biosphere 2, http://www.b2science.org/. We couldn't get close to get a good pic so take a look at the link. Tomorrow I think our plan is to head to Morana Park... from where we are staying we will probably end up driving to the starts of most of our rides as Saddle Brook is a good 25 miles outside of the Tucson city limits. So far, and I know it has only been two days, this vacation has been blissful. With nothing to do but ride and relax, the days seem to last longer, the sleeps are better and my stomach is quite content!

I hope that everyone back home is staying warm (-20 I believe it was today... yeah, it was a balmy +16 down here).

Amy

... Lesson Learned: At the grocery store today I walk up to the counter and the woman asks "how much" I want. I say "250". This is reciprocated with a look of confusion and as I turn to Dave he is killing himself laughing. Yeah, note to self, they us LBS down here!