Tucson

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It took us a couple of days to pack up all the rock at our booth in Quartzsite ready to make the move to Tucson. There are all the polished faces and slabs that cover the tables, the sculptures and contoured pieces plus all the rough rock and it all has to be packed back into the drums ready to be transported by truck to Tucson.

Glenn shipped a lot of rock to the US for this show so together with what was already here, even though we sold a huge amount, there were two truck loads to be taken to Tucson. It's quite a project but Glenn's been doing this for some years and although two years are never the same he is very proficient at it. Quartzsite is about 250 miles from Tucson.

FAQs at the show are: "Do you bring all this from Australia??"
"How do you bring all this to America?"
"Is it worth it?"
"You don't take what's left back to Australia, do you?"
"Are you going to take all this to Tucson?"

The same truckie handles Glenn's loads every year and even though he has a huge amount of work to do while the show is on, nothing is too much trouble for him.
We arrived in Tucson Wednesday and both loads arrived the next day, one in the morning and one in the evening.

Tucson has a population of about half a million. It sits on flat land surrounded by mountains and has few high rise.

Couldn't resist snapping this as we drove past on the freeway.

Just two or three days before we arrived in Tucson they had had snow! This is very unusual for Tucson - they hadn't seen snow in sixteen years! You can still see the snow on the shaded side of the mountains.
There is quite alot of new development on the outskirts of Tucson and that is where the house we are leasing is located. We have a lovely 'vista' of the mountains.

The view from the back of the house; to our right we have beautiful mountains in the distance, jacuzzi in the foreground and a new house being built nearby.

To our left; 'vista' of builders' rubbish bin and dunny!