A Trip to Memory Lane
I had to come to Tucson for MSHA training required for jobs I am doing at a couple of mines next month. I’m in a motel room right now. I lived here for about 4 1/2 years when I was a kid. I went to school here (DeGrazia Elementary) from the middle of 1st grade through 4th grade. I am staying about 4 miles from the Tucson Mall so I decided to go there after the training to unwind a bit, walk around and get some exercise. That place was dead, it was 5pm when I got there and some of the stores were closing. I think I saw more people working there than customers. Anyway it brought back many memories. I don’t remember going to the mall often. I think we went to ZCMI more often than we went to the Tucson Mall. I do remember driving around the parking lot. The river passes just to the north of the mall, and I remember watching people ride their bikes and jog along the river. I remember riding my bike along the river (or maybe it was just walking) when we lived in a town house on Avenida Primera, about a mile away from the mall. I remember watching that river path as we drove down river road from our house on the northwest side of town to the ranch where I rode horses on the east end of town. This trip wasn’t supposed to be a trip down memory lane, but it has been. I should probably leave the past where it is and get back to my homework.
