Visit with friends

Left about 10:30 to visit Gary and Deb who live south of Wilcox, AZ about 1 ½ hours drive from here, Gary is the leader of the Jam Sessions at our winter home and they had invited us for lunch. We took the dogs with us, they were invited, and we knew we would not be home until 5:00 PM or later. We visited a couple of times last year so knew the time would pass quickly as it always does when visiting friends. Unfortunately we have no pictures to share as I forgot to put the card in the camera (left it in my computer). Gary and Deb live out in the desert with a view of the Chirichahua Mountains and on our way home travelling the small dirt road leading to the highway we saw 5 Coues deer, we stopped (we were on travelling about 10 KPH), they crossed the road, and then stood in the desert like they were posing, man did we miss a great photo opportunity. Deer and coyotes are prolific in the area along with some cougar and other desert creatures. We arrived home around 5:30 pm and about 15 minutes later had a visit from an Albertan Gordon who camped at the park for a few days and was the person who had repaired our furnace shortly before we left this fall. He and his wife (Linda) had left Alberta Nov. 20^th travelled through Montana, Idaho and Utah, to Quartzite, AZ and had a horrendous trip, snowed most of the way, said he kept the truck in 4 x 4 most of trip and did a lot of white knuckle driving, that is the very reason we do not travel down I-15, too many high mountain passes through the Rockies but he and his wife wanted to see the Grand Canyon which they did and even though it was cold and snowy it was beautiful. Gordon is a character and we so enjoyed his visit, wow another visitor from home!

For information on the Chirichahua Mountains I have included the links below, as with any area we visit there is some interesting history, great scenery and in this case wonderful friends.

http://www.americansouthwest.net/arizona/chiricahua/national_monument.htm

http://statistics.arizona.edu/zeeb/butterflies/habitats/Cave.html

http://www.americansouthwest.net/arizona/chiricahua/national_monument.html