Two more great days in Tucson

Yesterday we left around 9:00 a.m. and headed out on a route that Dennis had plotted out, approximately a 130 mile loop south and east of Tucson. The weather was warm and the roads were good. We climbed to about 3900 feet from 2600 feet here in Tucson.
The route took us through some very interesting terrain from desert to high grasslands and then a lot of bush.
We stopped in a small town called Arivaca and looked around.
Irene bought some barbed wire Quail from one of the local artists and I got myself a jar of prickly pear cactus jelly. On our way into town we had spotted a small coffee shop with a lot of motorcycles out front so thats where we went back to for a break.
We continued on our ride and when we got back close to Tucson Irene & I led the ride to Stu & Barb Pomeroys as we had found their place the day before.

Today was a little different weather wise, we had showers!! Dennis & Myrna had decided to do another country ride and Irene & I decided to go to the Pima Flight & Space Museum. Their ride south west took them in a different direction from yesterday as they broke over the top of some of the high hills they saw a lot of grassland.
Sonoita was the small town that they came across and found a very unique Mesquite Bar B Q house.

They did up all the steaks and ribs over an open fire of Mesquite. As the rains came they cut the route short and headed back to the Motorhome.

Irene and I spent almost 5 hours at the museum and could have spent all day. We started out by taking the 1 hour guided bus ride around the 70 acre yard where they had all the airplanes parked.
It was very informative as the driver was an ex fighter pilot from the Vietnam war and was very enthused about it all. Our next stop was a flight simulator aboard an F18 doing a simulation of a battle in Desert Storm in Iraq.What a ride!!! You better not have eaten first as the ride does everything except turn you upside down. The ride only lasted 5 min and it was so exciting that Irene was surprised that it ended so soon. I told her it had to as we got hit by a missile and was losing hydraulic fluid and when we landed back on the aircraft carrier we hit very hard.
It was well worth going on. When we left we put on our rain gear and went out to take a closer look at the "grave yard of old airplanes". There are about 4400 USA forces airplanes of all makes parked in the desert at an Airforce base near by, if you look on Google Earth you can get a good look at what it looks like as it takes up many square miles.