Tour de Tucson weekend

When you hike out into the Tucson Mountain Park, there are a couple of stone ruins. This is one of them. There is nothing out there to tell you what it was, and thus far we don't know. It would be nice if there was an informative plaque.



It's fairly ruined!


Here is Jim making dinner. Look at the amount of counter space! Love that.


This has to prove that I have a sense of humor, since I posted this picture. The point of it is that we also got central vacuum. Isn't that amazing? Before we looked at this RV we didn't know such a thing existed. It's really good because vacuum cleaners are a huge storage issue.


I am currently up to 25 miles before the peripherals (shoulders, hands, sit bones) start clammering for me to get off the bike and get off now. We did make it up the easy side of Gates Pass yesterday.
Yesterday was also the Tour de Tucson, the long route is 109 miles. This is a really steep climb somewhere on Houghton. It doesn't look that fun.



I did not know this, until I started looking for photos from the ride, that part of the Tour goes through river beds. This the Santa Cruz crossing. I find it surprising that a road tour would take a bunch of people riding skinny tires off road.

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The guys that won it, if you can win a charity ride, are from Hermosillo, Mexico. They averaged 24.9 mph, and that includes waiting for a train. They were pretty quick. They put minutes on the people chasing them.
So, that's what we're up to. We're riding, hiking and cleaning house. Hope you are all well.