We left The lost Dutchman State Park after work and arrived east of Tucson and in the Saguaro Park at sunset.

Fast Saguaro facts, their roots are only 4-6 inches deep but grow outward in every direction about the height of the trunk. A saguaro grows very slowly 1inch/10 years. It usually starts arms around 100 years. The biggest ones are anywhere from 175-200ish years old.

Luke is in Tucson seeing his family over the holidays. We didn’t realize that there are 2 sections of Saguaro NP and his family’s house is on the eastern side which turned out to be about an hour away. We were supposed to eat dinner with them, but given our late arrival we had to wait till morning.We ate dinner at the campground. The Gunter homestead is quite amazing. Here are a few pictures of the day.

Now for random stuff I saw in the past 24 hours that made me smile.