{"id":1266,"date":"2011-03-28T13:41:12","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T19:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2011-03-28T13:41:12","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T19:41:12","slug":"tucson-spring-trip-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/?p=1266","title":{"rendered":"Tucson Spring Trip, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, March 13th, Tom and I packed our new truck and headed to Tucson, Arizona where we were visiting son Steev, his partner Greta,<a href=\"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Steev-Greta.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1268 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 4px;\" title=\"Click to Enlarge\" src=\"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Steev-Greta-100x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> and the family &#8216;cutie&#8217; Josie. After traveling close to 1700 miles, we arrived in Tucson early Sunday afternoon.  Steev and Greta have moved into a different house since the last time we had visited so we were given a tour of their digs. \u00a0\u00a0  Just around the corner from their home is the Best Western Royal Sun Inn &amp; Suites where we had reserved a room.  That evening we went to eat at <a href=\"http:\/\/barriobrewing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barrio Brewery. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>After we had breakfast Tuesday, we took a leisurely walk down to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fourthavenue.org\" target=\"_blank\">4th Avenue Shopping District<\/a>; unfortunately for me and fortunately for Tom, it was too early for the shops to be opened .\u00a0 Around noon, we walked over to Steev, Greta, and Josie&#8217;s place for lunch.\u00a0 Greta had work to do in the afternoon so Steev took us on a walk of the <a href=\"http:\/\/myownarizona.com\/06A1_el_presidio_historic.html\" target=\"_blank\">El Presidio Historic District<\/a> whose development started in the latter 1700&#8217;s . We ended up at the Old Town Artisans, a 150 year old abode building with shops and galleries.\u00a0 While I shopped, Tom and Steev <a href=\"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Josie.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1277\" style=\"margin: 4px;\" title=\"Click to Enlarge\" src=\"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Josie-150x112.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a>enjoyed some liquid refreshments in the shaded courtyard and Josie took a nap at home.\u00a0 We ate a very delicious evening meal prepared by Greta.\u00a0 Tomorrow we will be leaving for an overnight visit to Bisbee; an old mining town about 90 miles southeast of Tucson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, March 13th, Tom and I packed our new truck and headed to Tucson, Arizona where we were visiting son Steev, his partner Greta, and the family &#8216;cutie&#8217; Josie. After traveling close to 1700 miles, we arrived in Tucson early Sunday afternoon. Steev and Greta have moved into a different house since the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}