On the way home we stopped at Freedom RV, "Just to look." Three hours later, we left thinking we had just purchased a 40 ft. fifth-wheel toy hauler. Wrong - they couldn't find a one ton dually truck that ws rated to pull it. And I wouldn't go for a bigger truck. The good news is we have no debt!
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| From Biosphere2 3/18/09 |
Today we rode north of Tucson to Biosphere2. Some of you may remember when the "Biospherians" emerged after being locked in for two years. There was also a second group that lived there a year later, but they only made it 5 months before the experiment was closed off. The amazing thing is that the $300 million construction cost was paid totally by a private donor - a Mr. Bass who was an oil millionaire (maybe billionaire) who wanted to support ecological science.
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| From Biosphere2 3/18/09 |
We had a one hour tour thru most of the facility. How fascinating! After lunch we went back in to look at all the displays and view a movie about global climate change. Much of it focused on the role of water.
We happened to be the last guests to leave. And SURPRISE! the gate was closed and locked - and it wouldn't open. So we wen't back and found two employees closing up the gift shop. Turns out we needed to pull right up to the gate to trigger the sensors to open the gate. Whew! Sure didn't want to spend the night there. On second thought, that might have been interesting!
Thursday is our day for line dancing. Hmmm, I see it's already Thursday, so I'd better get some sleep! Bye!
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