After an, as always, interesting overnight greyhound from San Diego I eventually arrived in glowing orange Tucson at sunrise. My kindly hosts Leander and Mike pulled up in their 1937 Crysler and I jumped in for a ride back to El Barrio, the old part of Tucson where they live in their Adobe abode. I lived with Leander in Brisbane before she moved over here to start a new life. She, like so many other people living in Tucson who are drawn to the outer rim of North America have instigated the rubber band effect for all those who have migrated from east to west, bounced back from the commercial California to the more alternative Tucson. Although what makes this city the interesting place it is comes manly from the 80% or more Mexicans living there.
We jam packed the first day there with 8am spanish mass, swapmeet (a market with everything and anything on offer from 1980s scuba diving gear to machetes), a fancy dress bicycle day in the city on a tandem, drove Leanders combi van into the desert for sunset and then ate far too much fine" mexican food, the cactus tasted sweet. I hung out in interesting cafes and book shops when the guys worked on Monday. , Tucson has one of the biggest Universities in the country so its full of life and lots of creative stuff on. I can definitely recommend Tucson if you are looking for beautiful colourful skies and even more colourful characters.
I got my plane ride on time, I hope my part will be fine..... fly down to Mexico oh, doo ndoo ndoo
