Woke up to a cloudy day feeling chilly apparently very unusual for Tucson!!! We were due to go on a breakfast ride so made our way down to the wranglers roost. We were some of the first to get our horses, I was pleased because I had A1 again. As we waited for the others to mount their horses it started to rain and after a while the wranglers called us in and cancelled the ride - so disappointing. We went back to our cabins and lazed around for a while then the ...

Woke up this morning to a stormy sky with heavy rain forecast. We had booked a guided desert hike for the morning so got dressed up in our waterproof jackets and set off. Was a lovely hike and only had a few raindrops saw a beautiful rainbow looking Fantastic against the mountains. Still not raining on our return to the ranch so after having a coffee we went down to the tennis courts and had a game of Pickle Ball, a cross between table tennis and tennis we wer...

Up early this morning ready for our first horse ride. The famous knicker bokkers are on, awesome sight, under my riding trousers which seem a bit tighter than they were two years ago (can't understand it they must have shrunk in the wash). Feeling nervous but soon find myself sitting on a pretty horse called A1. The oldest wrangler called Joe was leading our group. It was a beautiful ride through the desert fantastic cacti and a few flowers coming into bloom. ...

Feeling a bit weary this morning but excited. Alan and June went off on the breakfast ride but the rest of us had a lazy breakfast delicious and a lot of it!! Went for a walk by the river and in the desert this morning lovely and sunny! Saw several cactus wrens and some humming birds beautiful. John and Nick went fishing to the lake on the ranch poor John's all got away! Nick caught two big mouth bass and two catfish. Claire and I went to the swimming pool la...

Pouring with rain today so Nick was unable to work. We decided to go to Tunbridge Wells and sort his international driving certificate out. We also went to the opticians to order Nick's new glasses which hopefully will arrive before we go on holiday! That was the positive holiday arrangements today. The negative was finding out someone in America has been using our Post Office Travel Card!!! The card has now been blocked and we have to wait for the money to be ...