Woke early, but Maria didn’t so did some computer stuff, then at 7 am the heavens opened and thunder, lightning and lots of rain!!!! Leisurely breakfast (our standard fare of fruit loaf lol) and finished off the packing and then rain had almost stopped. Maria packed the car as I finished checking the room and after dropping off the key we had to head over a couple of streets to replace a missing munzee for Douglas who we are meeting here in Tucson. However we got ourselves mixed up and instead of being on the same side of the road we went round the block to the wrong side, lol. Maria hopped out and crossed over whilst I programmed the GPS for our next destination and then we filled up with fuel. It’s really strange having to pay first and then go back for the refund! Left there at 8.30.
Finally we got onto the I 10, the interstate highway and negotiated our way through a cobweb of intersections a couple of times! It continued to rain for a couple of hours, then down to spitting, then cleared up finally. We stopped somewhere at about 11 and had an early lunch at Popeye’s Lousiana Kitchen. We had popcorn shrimp which was very nice if a little spicy. There were 3 munzees in the parking lot and 5 when we left, lol. Lots of wind farms closer to the city area, but it got quite hilly and then quite desolate looking with sand storms blowing in the distance. The road had warning signs about sand being blown across the road in areas and we did drive through one blowy sandy bit!
Crossed over the Arizona border and kept going. Noticed that on the California side all the exits had sequential numbers, on the Arizona side the exits were numbered for how many miles from the border they were! Lots of hills again and lots of saguaro cacti in the desert!
Found our hotel (340 miles/517 kms, 6 hours later) and unpacked, no lift, so Maria lugged the luggage up the stairs. Popped out for a little walk around a shopping centre car park, and back here for dinner. So only walked 5 kms today. Sharing a bed so that will be interesting lol.
