2025 Summer Vacation: Tuscon AZ & Saguaro National Park

 After 2 lovely days in Las Cruces, we headed out to Tuscon for 1 day to visit Saguaro National Park. We passed this guy on the side of the highway... 

Which made us laugh because, along with my theme song, "On the Road Again," the Roadrunner symbolizes my/our love of travel.

Up until this day (July 3rd) we'd been lucky to miss severe weather and thunderstorms that kept us inside. But this afternoon, we caught a little rain. Lucklily, it was light and cleared up enough for us to get inside the visitor center at Saguaro (pronounced suh waa row) National Park where we toured the exhibits therein and it cleard up nicely by the time we were ready to drive through the park.

Although there are hiking trails for those rugged outdoorsmen and women, we chose to drive through the park for 2 reasons. One, we only had the afternoon to visit as we were heading to Phoenix the next morning. Two, I'm not going to go traipsing through any area that's known rattlesnake country!

Anyway, we saw plenty of these big, sometimes exotically shaped cactus plants. Just look how tall!

These cacti can grow up to 60 feet tall and, when fully hydrated, weigh 5000 pounds.

Some folks may not appreciate the uniqueness of the Saguaro cactus, but I find the beauty of nature never ceases to amaze me.

We stayed at Rincon Country West RV Resort, a retirement community that I'm sure, had we more time, would have been a lot of fun with all of the activities, swimming pool, hot tub and other ammenities geared to keep residents healthy and engaged. And as you'd expect, the restrooms in such a beautiful place were the kind that keep me singing a happy tune. Spacious and clean.

Hope you enjoyed this peek into Tuscon, AZ and Saguaro National Park and that you'll check back in a couple of weeks as we continue our vacation in Phoenix!

Until then, take care, God bless and safe travels.

PamT