Long Weekend

Another nice long weekend with Larry and Donna, this time to Tubac, about twenty miles north of Nogales on the 19.  Real pretty golf resort set along both sides of the Santa Cruz river, which is barely a trickle.  Suspected all would be well when, as we checked in, I noticed that the complimentary newspaper pile was New York Timeseses. 

This is where some or most of the movie "Tin Cup" with Kevin Costner and Rene Russo was filmed in 1995.  In honor of the film, I put quite a few balls into the "lakes" as Mr. C's character had.  Charming, competent , mostly non-English speaking service personnel, a surprisingly well manicured course, and very good food.  That, and I kicked Larry's ass despite four-putting - yes - the ninth and the eighteenth greens yesterday.  The previous day I ended the round with four one-putts in a row.  Stupid game.

Sweet, funny little town, Tubac.  Prolly what Sedona was like thirty years ago.  Lots of artsy cool stuff in small shops run by people with lots of hair.  I bought a very nice glass sculpture, a wind chime guaranteed for life, and a refrigerator magnet for SugarBeth.

Today, before leaving the area, we drove a few miles farther south to Tumacacori (too-ma-cock-ree), one of Father Kino's missions dating back to 1691.  The Jesuits did a lot of work in this area before being recalled by order of King, uh, King . . ., the King of Spain at that time.  Hot on the heels of the Jesuits came the Franciscans. Lucky Mexicans.  A charming ancient woman held a tortilla-making demonstration in the courtyard.  Yummy.