After City of Rocks we’re hard pressed to find a or more scenic campground but Catalina and Lost Dutchman are unique in their own right. Generator hours were 8 to 8 in Catalina and with nighttime lows in the teens you ran them right up til eight to get your batteries charged up to keep the furnace fan going. Mornings they would be down to 15%. Someone I know started his generator at 07:58 but I won’t say who. Jack and Lynne found out that a 5 year old battery wasn’t up to the task but their Walmart deep cycle worked great the next night.Typical desert temps in that the warm up in the morning is as dramatically as the cool down at night. Early cool downs result in 4:00 happy hours, early dinners, and in bed reading by 8:30 or so.

Wednesday we went to the Sanora Desert Museum. Learned about saguaro cactus as well as how to pronounce it. Also the critters, plants, and birds unique to the desert. Lunch at Brown Mountain.

Speaking of we really haven’t been going out to eat a lot. With state park dry camping at 20-25$ and national parks at 10$ with the golden age pass, the out west trip has been fairly economical so far. Except for ARGHHH diesel at $3.50 to $4.10 a gallon. $100+ fillups are common even with 11.4 MPG. Oh well that’s what we get for hauling your house down the road.

Thursday was a guys day starting with disc golf with our resident pro Ron. He takes his disc golf as serious as I don’t , and is quite descriptive on some of his shots. I ended up at 14 over par, Jack 11, and Ron at 9. Started in jackets and ended in t shirts.

Then it was off to the Pima Air Museum for tire kicking and remember when’s. Of course the Huey Cobra and TH-55 that Gary used to fly were particularly special. The ladies did a 3.6 mile hike so a good time was had by all and the happy hour review was satisfactory. Jack and Lynne did some serious fat tire biking on Friday and the rest of us did a old people educational hike to some ancient Native American

Lost Dutchman still dry camping but our individual sites were great. Hiked the base of the Superstition Mountains and kept an eye for the lost Dutchman mine. These Dutchman stayed on the trail and didn’t get lost. Today was laundry day for us and then out for dinner. Only 46 degrees last night and 73 today – finally.