Thursday, August 19th

Today we drove from Las Cruces, NM to Tucson, AZ. We made a stop at Shakespeare Ghost Town before crossing into Arizona, and I’m so glad we did. I called ahead to arrange a tour since it is not open to the public. We got a private tour of the old mining town with some really cool history. The owner had just killed a rattlesnake before we got there so Ethan was able to get an up close look at one (minus the head which he had already buried).

Our hotel tonight is in the Catalina Foothills which is absolutely beautiful. We spent a lot of time in the pools and on going down the water slide, then finished off the night with dinner on the patio.