Geocaching In Unique Places

I know this is starting to get boring....but....we are still waiting for parts for our coach repairs.   Today marks our 14th day here and my patience is wearing thin.   We have been taking turns visiting our service advisor to get an update and today was my turn.   Ron kept a close watch from the car so he could come to her rescue in the event I would hurdle her desk and have my hands around her throat.   Fortunately it did not come to that but I was close when I was told that the board for our in-line surge protector was mailed but no one could tell us when, how or to whom????   Are American businesses customer service getting worse??? How is that possible?     Because the 3 of us were breathing down the parts customer service (there's that word again) rep. she got a little aggressive with the board manufacturer, who later called her back and told them they didn't like the tactics she used to get another board mailed that they now refused to provide the part.     So who losses in this scenario...US!    Well, that got straightened out and another part was mailed overnight today (supposedly) for installation on Monday.    We are keeping our fingers crossed because we need to leave Tuesday for Casa Grande.   That's cutting it close.

To occupy our time we have been geocaching the last couple of days.    Our ventures have taken us to places we would never have found otherwise.   We visited a Veterans Memorial dedicated to all Tucsonan's who have served but in particular to 12 men, from the same infantry battalion who lost their lives in the Korean War.

Our geocaching GPS took us to a new subdivision that backs up to the desert with a great view of the Catalina Mountains.  While we where there we looked at a couple of display homes to see what you can get for your money in this part of the country.   We weren't too impressed with the floor plans but liked the area.







Another cache took us to a sculpture on a very busy corner that we have passed a hundred times but never bothered to find out the history.  

It is an untitled angel  created by eight high school students under the direction of a local artist.   The students had to apply to participate and were paid for their work.  It is a torso of an angel rising from concrete slabs.  The angel holds a globe above it's head.    It was completed the summer after 911 and that is why is says "Together We Rise", it's rising above the rubble.

This was a multi cache located in this 4 acre natural & cultural resource park created  from a right-of-way when  the in I-10 and I-19 interchange was reconstructed and relocated.    The site includes an interpretation of a Hohokam village and history walk path that features resources as far back as 1600 BC, information about a historic children's home as well as  interpretive features identifying  more modern Native cultures such as the Pascua Yaqui community dating back to 1936.  

Re-created huge pottery from the Hohokam culture.

Some of the caches are large and easy to find.  

And some are micro magnetic containers.

We also celebrated St. Patty's day, even though neither of us are Irish, but we love corned beef, cabbage and of course green beer.

It is a beautiful sight when the temperature is in the low 80's and you can view snow capped mountains!!

Hope all is well!!