Alfa Rally, Tucson

We arrived in Tucson last Friday for the "Road Runners" chapter pre-rally and then the "Alfa National Rally" at Rincon West RV Park. It has been a great way to meet other Alfa motorhome owners and share information. The "Road Runners" chapter of Alfa owners are primarily full timers and most of them are from the western states. We are hearing about many great places to camp in California, Arizona and Utah, among others. Like the "Boomers" they are an eating/drinking group that likes to travel and camp! The weather has been wonderful - cool in the mornings and evenings but in the 80's during the day - windy but, we have come to accept it as a way of life in the west! We will be here for another week.
My computer had been freezing and crash dumping so we finally had an opportunity to get it fixed while here in Tucson. I now have a new hard drive, which seems to have fixed it, but, I spent the afternoon re-loading all my favorite programs! Roger is out golfing with the guys.
The park is huge - around 1000 sites - some park models and others for RV's. It is lovely with flowers and very nice facilities. It even has a wood working shop! Roger is excited - he's going to take the pull out "drawer," on my side of the bed, down to trim it with their saw so it doesn't stick when I try to open it. It is a great place to ride my bike. They have some "premium" sites that are really original - there are 4 pull thrus in a square with a grass courtyard in the center with trees and tables. All the coaches face the center and have a yard! Great for groups.
We went out to Kitt's Peak Observatory yesterday to see the telescopes. It is a joint venture with several colleges participating - Michigan State, UofM, UT in Austin among them. Amazing how much we don't know about the stars, planets and constellations and how much the scientists have figured out! We looked at the sun through one of the telescopes that was available during the day.

PS - Funny story - remember Gary & Roger coming in last at the FMCA golf tournament? Well, the newletter sent out after the rally had a write up about the golf day and the headline read "Golf Tournament Winners" with a list of first, second & third place winners but a really nice picture of  Gary, Roger & their partners!