{"id":570,"date":"2007-04-14T20:44:50","date_gmt":"2007-04-15T00:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/?p=570"},"modified":"2007-04-14T20:44:50","modified_gmt":"2007-04-15T00:44:50","slug":"fest-in-barrio-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/?p=570","title":{"rendered":"Fest in Barrio Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One good thing about having gone to the home show yesterday is that we don&#8217;t have to waste a beautiful Saturday indoors.  Springtime in Tucson is really marvelous when the wind isn&#8217;t blowing.  Today was typical: sunny &#038; crystal clear, dry, light breeze and about 80 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>We started the day heading to the Tucson Botanical Garden.  The gardens are located in town, on the site of an early settler&#8217;s home, making a green oasis in the midst of urban sprawl. Don&#8217;t go expecting English formal gardens with neat squares and carefully arranged flowers.  The Botanical Garden presents a series of tight little gardens along twisting paths. There&#8217;s a low-water desert area, a children&#8217;s garden, herb garden, several nice patios shaded by grapefruit, mesquite, and other desert-loving trees, and much more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/weblog\/Tucson%20Botanical%201.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Tucson Botanical 1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/weblog\/Tucson%20Botanical%201-thumb.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was very useful for planning things we want to put in the back yard of the house.  We&#8217;d like to obliterate the existing lawn (a water- and maintenance-hungry monster, utterly inappropriate for the desert) by  xeriscaping with gravel and cactus.  We were so impressed we bought a family membership, which allows us to visit as much as we want.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/weblog\/Tucson%20Botanical%20knee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Tucson Botanical knee.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/weblog\/Tucson%20Botanical%20knee-thumb.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course during the visit I managed to get my knee into some cactus while snapping a picture of a lizard.  I seem to get spines in my leg every couple of weeks doing one thing or another.  Although the spines are straight, they still require a good tug to remove.<\/p>\n<p>A month or so ago, our friends Mike &#038; Tracy left a flyer on our doorstep for a local Mexican restaurant on Grande Ave.  We went looking for it so we could get lunch, and found the street closed for a street party.  Turns out it is part of Barrio Hollywood, one of the oldest neighborhoods in Tucson. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/weblog\/Tucson%20Barrio%20Hollywood.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Tucson Barrio Hollywood.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/weblog\/Tucson%20Barrio%20Hollywood-thumb.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was a huge bonus.  Mexican food stands, salsa dancers on stage, a fine band, and plenty of local color.  That accordian player might look anglo but let me tell you, that band could crank out some great music.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/weblog\/Tucson%20Barrio%20band.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Tucson Barrio band.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/weblog\/Tucson%20Barrio%20band-thumb.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A local insisted we try a small cup of deep-fried tripe with green chiles and salsa, and then we made lunch of a burro, three tacos, strawberry Hawaiian shave ice and some churros for dessert.  This festival was a lucky find.  Even though we haven&#8217;t yet gone traveling yet, it feels like today we got back into the swing of it.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Tucson churros.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/weblog\/Tucson%20churros.jpg\" width=\"359\" height=\"239\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One good thing about having gone to the home show yesterday is that we don&#8217;t have to waste a beautiful Saturday indoors. Springtime in Tucson is really marvelous when the wind isn&#8217;t blowing. Today was typical: sunny &#038; crystal clear, dry, light breeze and about 80 degrees. 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