Tumacacori to Tubac
One of the many wonderful things about living in the desert Southwest is that you get to go to places with names like Tumacacori and Tubac. Just agreeing on a pronunciation is an adventure. Is it Tuma CA c'ri or Tumaca CORI ?? Probably the first, but we all slipped into the second from time to time. Yes, we, for this was another Happy Ladies Club Adventure. 15 of us walked from the thankfully-still-open National Historical Park's Visitor's Center in Tumacacori to the soon-to-be-closed-due-to-State-budget-cuts Tubac Presidio State Historic Park , the oldest State Historic Park in Arizona. It's a flat walk in the riparian area bordering the Santa Cruz River and a variety of rivulets and streamlets and flooded washes which feed into the Santa Cruz. Cross and re-crossing might have been problematic had not previous hikers been kind enough to leave behind board-bridges; we were grateful.... very very grateful..... to avoid removing shoes and socks an...