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@Double R According to the Really Smart People who run the company I work for, we'll be in Tucson from Jan. 1 to about Feb. 1, then Yuma until about the middle of March...
Been to Tucson. February vacation with my brother. Not sorry to have missed out on Yuma. Hah. Yuma prison figured in several Western stories I used to read. Seems like Elmore Leonard wrote a couple good ones.
 
Been to Tucson. February vacation with my brother. Not sorry to have missed out on Yuma. Hah. Yuma prison figured in several Western stories I used to read. Seems like Elmore Leonard wrote a couple good ones.
You didn't miss much at Yuma. It's a weird combination of people - old white geezers living out their retirement in one of the 4,000 trailer parks there, or young Hispanic families. It's not a bad place, but there's nothing that good about it either.

Tucson isn't what it used to be. There's a big heroin problem and it's gotten to be a dirty place. I still have some relatives there I might try and go see, if I get time...
 
You didn't miss much at Yuma. It's a weird combination of people - old white geezers living out their retirement in one of the 4,000 trailer parks there, or young Hispanic families. It's not a bad place, but there's nothing that good about it either.

Tucson isn't what it used to be. There's a big heroin problem and it's gotten to be a dirty place. I still have some relatives there I might try and go see, if I get time...
I took my brother there in February of '87. Didn't go downtown, we weren't city folk. Stayed at a motel on the outskirts, drove around in the desert. Still have a pic of my brother standing beside a saguaro. The Living Desert is like another world for Vermonters.
 
I grew up there, and still call it home. Brother and sister still live there. Enjoy the warm weather Spikedriver, although they did just get snow.
 
I swear I could make a sandwich out of nothing but onions and sweet peppers sauteed in olive oil. It just hits something I'm craving every time I make them for sandwiches.
 
I just remembered I used to go to the movies a lot. Were else could I entertain myself for 2 hrs on 5 bucks. Something would come on the TV and I would tell my wife, oh this is a good movie. She got irritated one day and said I wish you would stop going to so many movies in Yuma. I said ok but there ain't much else to do. Do you prefer the casinos or strip clubs? She said movies are fine.
 
Here you go Spikedriver. Maybe this will give you someplace to try in Tucson. Sounds like there are a lot of choices. I hope you like Mexican food.

 
@Fort
I live in a VERY old house. You’d be scared if you saw the wiring that was in it. Lol! I have practice in these things
I have run across old houses with tube and knob insulators and what looks like mica covered tar covered copper wires, I've brought samples home that were in a garage of a home that I did some work on, just to show people what electrical systems used to be like. My neighbor on the west side of us has a home that originally was built in the 20's, it was an electricians nightmare, I saw single wires hanging in the crawl space from one side of the house to the other, I told the new owners that they would have to tear all the sheetrock, possibly lath and plaster, off the walls and rewire the whole home, if there was Romex in the home it was just two wire and no ground. Actually some of the wiring in old homes was probably safer than some of the mobile homes that had aluminum Romex, thankfully over the years of helping people with their electrical issues, I've only seen one mobile home with aluminum wire in it, that was probably the worst mistake done in all the years we've used electricity and thankfully most of those old mobile homes are no longer around.
 

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