Museum

 2/10- Tucson AZ

  We spent almost the whole day at the Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum. This is not your ordinary museum. They recommended taking no fewer than 2 hours to see the place. We were there for 5 hours and I would have spent more. They have live animal exhibits featuring a mountain lion, Mexican Grey Wolves, javalinas etc. They have displays of live snakes and lizards. There are large cactus gardens with many unusual kinds of cacti. There is a cave section where you actually go underground and they have exhibits on mining and rocks and gems. In addition there were random volunteers giving little lectures and answering questions. It was a really great experience. 

   We did move out of the campground in downtown Tucson and parked at an rv park just outside the Tucson Mountain park which is where the museum is located. One neat feature of this park is a large mound in the middle with a walkway that goes to a kind of lookout at the top. It was a spectacular view of the whole valley when we went up just after sunset.