We are now in Tucson Az. In an effort to keep this, more or less, up to date we are going to skip New Mexico for a while and enter current posts when wifi is available.
Last year we drove through Tucson, so this time we decided to stop and take in the sights as there is no rush to get to the Yuma area. Our plan was to go straight to Tucson, but the National Geographic mentioned a museum just off the I-10 that sounded as if it was worth a stop. It is called the Amerind Foundation and as the Nat Geo says it is “beautifully laid out in Spanish Colonial style buildings and filled with archaeological and ethnological treasures” .
With the help of The Amerind Foundation and similar institutions we are slowly developing an understanding of the early history of the south west.
We’ve always appreciated the Spanish influenced architecture of the south west and find it a pleasant change from the cold concrete canyons of Ottawa. So it was a pleasure to spend an afternoon wandering through the old Presidio area of downtown Tucson.
I was less impressed with The Museum of Contemporary Photography. They only exhibited 5 or 6 of Ansel Adams lesser known prints – didn’t quite live up to its advance billing
We spent part of Sunday at Mission San Xavier del Bac. The chronology of the mission covers over 300 years of interesting history.
