After Tucson and area which we really enjoyed we carried on heading east. Amazingly before leaving Tucson I was able to see at the local cinema near the Catalina State Park Live Opera from the Met in High Definition. The opera was Rigoletto by Verdi and the setting chosen was Las Vegas in the 1960s. A great performance. The following day we had tickets for Verdi's Requiem performed by the Tucson Symphony Orchestra and Chorus at the new Tuscon Music Hall. It was the final concert in the two week "Tucson Desert Song Festival". This year was the inaugural festival and it is planned to repeat it each year. The performance included four soloists all who had sung at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. I am putting this festival on my "Bucket" list in case one might be tempted to go to it in future years. There is even a direct flight to Tucson from Victoria.
We have just spent three nights at Rockhound State Park near Deming in New Mexico. State parks in Arizona and New Mexico are impressive - it is so nice to be at a park where there is space between the sites. At commercial sites you are often quite close to other vehicles. Most of the state parks also seem to have electrical and water hookups but not sewer.
The only trouble with the last week is that the weather is breaking all records for being cold. Yesterday the high was 47F and the low 26F. We were however at an altitude of 4550 feet. The water input hose has frozen solid on several nights and we have to wait for the sun to come up for it to unfreeze.
We are now in an RV Park in Las Cruces, New Mexico to do laundry and catch up on Emails etc.
This is probably the farthest east we will go but we do hope to visit White Sands National Monument before heading in a westerly direction.
Shaun, Penny and Lucy.
No comments:
Post a Comment