Back to Civilization

Woke up around 11:30 this morning & went through the "morning" routine up here for the last time, since today was our departure from the observatory and Mt. Bigelow. After getting cleaned up, I quickly packed all of my stuff in the dorm, and brought my bags loaded onto the car, after which we were on our way down the mountain. Along the way, we stopped at one of the vistas to get some pictures on the way down. I managed to get pictures of some small waterfalls on the side of the mountains, along with the rusted wreckage of a large van that had an unfortunate accident on the mountain road years ago. Then, as we made our way to the bottom of the mountain something amazing happened, a hawk, like the ones that were in the "free flight" at the desert museum flew just a few inches over our Town & Country mini van! Unfortunately, since it happened so quickly, nobody was able to get a picture of the hawk as it flew over us.

As we made our way back into Tucson, we checked into the La Quinta Inn as we did the first day here, only with different rooms. A couple of hours later, we went to dinner at a nice Mexican/seafood restaurant, where we met Mrs. Stelbic, whose incredible generosity made it possible for us to be here in the first place, and for that we are all very thankful of her. And now, we will spend the last several days here in Arizona finishing up our data/image processing, and visiting a few more attractions.