{"id":120,"date":"2006-01-30T20:24:24","date_gmt":"2006-01-31T00:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/?p=120"},"modified":"2006-01-30T20:24:24","modified_gmt":"2006-01-31T00:24:24","slug":"tucson-az","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"Tucson, AZ"},"content":{"rendered":"

We were sorry to say goodbye to Charles and Lynn, but they sent us off in style with a nice breakfast in their 34 foot Excella. Yes, you can serve breakfast for five on an Airstream dinette — as long as one person is flexible about where they sit.<\/p>\n

\"Patagonia<\/p>\n

Our travel today was very short. All we needed to do was get down to Tucson, about 60 miles north and 2,000 feet lower in altitude. Because we are expecting a guest, we thought it would be a good idea to find a full-hookup campsite, so we ended up at the sort of place we don’t usually go to: a Big Honkin’ RV Resort.<\/p>\n

Here are the specs: 400 sites, 266 pull-thrus. W\/E\/S at every site, plus cable TV, a Camping World store, a restaurant, “planned activities” (whatever those are), a mobile power-wash that comes to your site to clean your RV for $3 per foot, two swimming pools, and even some sites with personal jacuzzi tubs.<\/p>\n

A place like this has nothing to do with communing with nature, or “getting away from it all.” The Big RV Resort experience is about … well, I don’t know what it’s about. It’s certainly not about saving money, since most of our neighbors are in giant Class A motorhomes that cost $100-300k. Our silver trailer sticks out in this fiberglass crowd.<\/p>\n

\"Tucson<\/p>\n

This week Eleanor and Emma are going to try to hit some of the enormous Tucson gem show<\/a> going on now all over the city. Emma is a nut for rocks and minerals now, and Eleanor has become a fan of opal since our find on the California coast. I hope to join them at one or two of the venues later this week, work permitting.<\/p>\n

Did you guess what the mining equipment in the previous post was? It was a two-seat “sanitary cart.” In other words, it was the toilet. Keep in mind the temperature in the mine runs 46-52 degrees year-round, and those seats are metal. Plenty of reason to keep your bathroom break short.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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