Cleared to Tee Off or Take Off
I’m happy to link to a story I wrote in today’s New York Times: Havens North Tucson. Havens is the second homes column, so this is a story about people who live there and why they chose to buy a second home in Tucson. The southwest is a beautiful area, and I really felt thrilled to be able to cover it and say things like:
If, like Buck Clippard, you fly but have trouble finding airplane parking, you might consider requesting permission to land at La Cholla Airpark, a community 20 miles north of downtown Tucson. The Clippards have a second home there — and a two-plane hangar on a taxiway (or, as the earthbound might call it, a road), right off the airpark’s main drag, a 4,500-foot landing strip.
Anyway, please give it a read and enjoy. If you’re interested in reading more about the foothills, one of the real estate agents I spoke with, John Schneider, writes frequently about the area on his aptly named blog, The Tucson Foothills.
Also, thanks to Rob Ploger who, after all, moved to Tucson (not in the foothills though) and gave Wendy, his sister, my girlfriend, a reason to bring me out West and see what all the fuss was about. Now I know!
Welcome to the ranks of New Yorkers who have discovered the “aha, Tucson!” mantra. For Leigh (husband) and I, the aha started more than a decade ago. When son Brett graduated college we picked ourselves up and moved here. After 55+ years as New Yorkers that was true culture shock, but the magnificent Catalina mountains in a sunset certainly rival the skyline of New York. Come back often, and good luck to your sister [Ed:girlfriend], too.
Nice work on finding out more about Tucson in 3 days than I’ve learned living in Tucson for 3 years! Great article! I hope to see you here again soon.