I'd forgotten my SD card reader doesn't handle SDHC cards. So I have to copy the all off my USB camera connection (thank you Ryan for that Belkin traveler's cable kit!). Fortunately, that doesn't take that long if I put the files locally instead of uploading them through a 100Kbps connection back to my file servers.

Not much happened today except for checking into the room and picking up my name badge. Didn't stay long at the reception (didn't know anyone there, so it was a little awkward). Ended up driving out to the Tucson Airport just to get away & relax/calm down a bit. Plus, now I know how to get there if I need to take people when everyone leaves on Wednesday.

Anyway, to make up for the lack of real progress, there are pictures!

Saguaro Lake (west end, looking east: NF-206 off N Bush Hwy (according to my map))

Grandpa (Bertil Peterson), Grandma (Joyce Peterson), & Me (Jeffrey Stults, Jr.)

Superstition Mountain (from US 60)

Catalina Mountains (I think), viewed from the north-ish on Arizona 77/79.

Some creek/river in Catalina State Park. Unfortunately, even the park map I got at the park fails to mention what its name is.

The same hydrological feature in Catalina Start Park. Only this time, from inside Romero Canyon.

And once again with the water...I mean, it is the desert after all, so water like this is kind of rare. Looking up the "canyon" in this shot.

Hills/mountains at Catalina State Park. Apparently, there are trails if one wished to hike all the way up to the top.

 

Arizona desert (Catalina State Park again).

Looking the other direction from the view out across the desert yields a site like above.

And some obligatory cactus photos:

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