Day 18/19 Gilbert Ray Campground Tucson, Az

Day 18/19 Dec 17/18 Gilbert Ray Pima County Campground Tucson, Az 255/4193 total miles so far, mileage I’d still averaging g 14.5mpg today we drove across the Continental Divide and into Arizona finally! Last night it was down to 35 and we put the furnace on about 3:00am like usual when it gets really cold and also heard coyotes, something on the roof and other various noises outside.  We had a usual drive, trucks and more trucks, wind  we did get to stop at a place we saw advertised called Dwane’s Jerky advertising everything from Alligator to you name it Jerky( I didn’t look too close) but we did get some locally grown Pistachios and homemade peanut bluer fudge- John says mine is better who knows I can’t really make it in the motor home so I thought it was good. They had allot of jellies and honey and western gifts of all sorts, a fun little stop. 

We drove through an area that wasn’t White Sands NM but it had allot of white sand and signs warning to reduce speed, pull over and Do NOT put your foot on the brakes I guess if you get hit that way the impact will be less? Lucky for us it did not happen but it got our attention we are not used to sand storms! 

 

We will do some more investigating here tomorrow....

Gilbert Ray is only one campground in the Tucson Mountain Park that opened in the 1920s and the park consists of nearly 30,000 acres that’s about 47 square miles that as you will see has allot of Saguaros and other cacti that have a safe home here. There are also many birds, “ killer bees” ,mountain lions, and 6 species of rattle snakes and I imagine some of my other favorites like scorpions and tarantulas both of which are out at night( I am not) and we noticed a few campers have the hoods open on their vehicles so we asked the camp host and she said that they also put lights under the vehicles to keep away the pack rats that eat wires. Doesn’t it sound like a lovely place to live? Well we think not but during a nice sunny day it’s nice to visit...last night went down do 31F

Thats all for today