{"id":1119,"date":"2015-12-24T21:29:44","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T21:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/?page_id=1119"},"modified":"2017-07-11T23:52:56","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T23:52:56","slug":"arizona-excursions-part-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/can-you-spell-rv\/arizona-adventures-2015-2016\/arizona-excursions-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Excursions – Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

12-24-2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

Happy Holidays to all our friends, wherever you may be!<\/p>\n

We are getting settled into our Volunteering roles and honing our presentations.\u00a0 As the holiday have approached, the number of visitors to The Ruins have increased and we have each been giving one or two tours each day.\u00a0 We continue to meet fun and interesting people.<\/p>\n

We have taken a couple excursions on our days off:<\/p>\n

Saguaro National Park \u2013 West<\/strong><\/p>\n

This park is just northwest of Tucson includes 24,000 acres of the combined 91,000 acres of this National Park.\u00a0 This park is dedicated to North America\u2019s largest cactus, and a symbol of the American West.\u00a0 The only place in the world where this cactus grows is in the Sonoran Desert \u2013 in southern Arizona, southeastern California, and northwestern Mexico.\u00a0 Its imposing size and uplifted arms give it a regal presence, and it is one of my personal favorites among the cacti.<\/p>\n

While there are many hikes available at the Saguaro NP, we took a couple fairly short walks, and took a few pictures to reflect the stately grandeur of the Saguaro and the stark beauty of the Sonoran Desert. \u00a0These petroglyphs were created by people from the same culture that built the Casa Grande! \u00a0Oh, and the Rattlesnakes usually hibernate until the daily temperatures are routinely in the mid- to upper-80’s! \u00a0So we had little chance of meeting one – but we are still watchful!<\/p>\n

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San Tan Mountain Regional Park<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yesterday, we drove north toward Phoenix to hike in the San Tan Mountain Regional Park.\u00a0 There are many, many hiking opportunities around Phoenix \u2013 this being one of the closest to us in Coolidge.\u00a0 We are trying to get back into condition for some more challenging hikes, but we hiked about 4 miles along the Little Leaf and Goldmine Trail (up to the part where it gets \u201creally steep\u201d).\u00a0 While we sat resting for a few minutes, a curious Cactus Wren came visiting.\u00a0 We will be returning here for future visits!<\/p>\n

Afterward we went to a fun restaurant \u2013 the Queen Creek Olive Mill.\u00a0 In addition to good sandwiches, they have a fun retail area, and also provide tours of their olive mill.\u00a0 This is another place to which we will return, perhaps when friends or family visit.<\/p>\n

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12-24-2015 Happy Holidays to all our friends, wherever you may be! We are getting settled into our Volunteering roles and honing our presentations.\u00a0 As the holiday have approached, the number of visitors to The Ruins have increased and we have each been giving one or two tours each day.\u00a0 We continue to meet fun and … Continue reading Arizona Excursions – Part 1<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1550,"menu_order":60,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1119","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2618,"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1119\/revisions\/2618"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}