{"id":1489,"date":"2013-11-14T03:30:24","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T02:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=1489"},"modified":"2013-11-14T03:32:49","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T02:32:49","slug":"tucson-trails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=1489","title":{"rendered":"Tucson Trails"},"content":{"rendered":"

James and I along with Donna Tormo\u00a0received a lovely invitation from our friend Peggy San Filipo, come and see Tucson.\u00a0 Peggy, Donna and I are old skiing\/life\/work buddies from Aspen, hard to note that was decades ago.<\/p>\n

\"Saguro<\/a>
Saguaro Cactus in an Arizona landscape<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We did a walk in Sabino Canyon in the Santa Catalina mountains of Arizona. \u00a0There were large numbers of Saguaro\u00a0cactus, water holes and large boulders of gneiss. The weather was perfect, warm and sunny.<\/p>\n

James and I still travel with both ladies.\u00a0 For years we met Donna in different places: San Diego, San Francisco, Baltimore, Houston and New York on our trips back to the US and also travelled Italy together. \u00a0Peggy has visited us twice in Sydney and for years we have met in Los Angeles just before we would head back to Sydney.<\/p>\n

\"Peggy<\/a>
Peggy preparing dinner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There was quite a bit of eating, drinking, laughing and talking going on all weekend. There were walks and taking photos. \u00a0Visiting the Hotel Congress and visiting a very \u00a0lively downtown Tucson and seeing where they captured Dillinger. We had a great dinner at Cafe Poca Cosa on Saturday night with friends Arta and Celeste.<\/p>\n

\"Donna<\/a>
Donna on the ‘Sunset balcony’.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Peggy,<\/a>
Peggy, Gaila & James at Poca Cosa<\/p>\n
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\"Brunch<\/a><\/dt>\n
Brunch is mandatory<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

It was quite a drive to get to Tucson. \u00a0It is about a six-hour drive through the desert. Hours of the drive are in barren desert country but as we approach Tucson we see the hills and scenery of Cowboys and Indians. Rugged hills full of Saguaro cactus, which is indigenous to the Sonora Desert.<\/p>\n

\"Walking<\/a>
Walking in the wash, taking close up views of the Saguaros.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A giant thank you to Peggy for all her hospitality and generosity. \u00a0Tucson is highly recommended, \u00a0if you are going and want to play golf or pickleball, I will introduce you to Peggy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

James and I along with Donna Tormo\u00a0received a lovely invitation from our friend Peggy San Filipo, come and see Tucson.\u00a0 Peggy, Donna and I are old skiing\/life\/work buddies from Aspen, hard to note that was decades ago. We did a walk in Sabino Canyon in the Santa Catalina mountains of Arizona. \u00a0There were large numbers … Continue reading Tucson Trails<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,22,25,30,31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-2","category-friendship","category-parties","category-pickleball","category-saguaro-cactus","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VxXq-o1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1505,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions\/1505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}