John H ,
First, thanks for reminding me of that murdering
Charles Schmid Jr .... I was a teenager living on the SW side not very far from the desert area where he buried his first victims, I believe we're Gretchen and Wendy Fritz. My Mom put a tight rein on my sister and I during that awful time in Tucson. But I really wasn't upset about that as it was a pretty scary time anyway. He was such an egotistical diabolical character and it was a relief to know he died .
I think I have the Life magazine somewhere packed away that did a story about him. I have traveled and lived across the country a few times since I left Tucson in 2005 I still have things packed.
I don't go to Hardee's here very much even though its just a block or so away, I may use the coupons for their breakfast biscuits once in awhile but as far as their Mexican food menu... Yuck ! I wouldn't eat it if it was free. I don't know where they got the recipes but to me it's awful. When your use to 'real' Sonoran Mexican food anything else taste like dirt !
But I am a pretty fair cook and I can still make some great tamales and other dishes as I learned from my best friend in Tucson who was born and raised in Hermosillo. Not quite an expert like her but my Marine sons when they come to visit will ask me to make them my enchiladas, beans and rice. Here in AL where i live now we have a good size Latino population and some have opened up restaurants and bakeries, which my husband and I appreciate.
We love the sweet breads with our morning coffee on the weekends especially because they are fresh made and not the packaged ones at the stores that I notice most of those come from Texas. We came back here to be with some of my husband's older family members after I retired from nursing at the Tucson VA hospital and its a nice place where we live between Birmingham and Atlanta off the I-20 freeway. I have flew back to Tucson several times to see friends and I have seen the changes some good but some sad....but we think if we ever move back to AZ it wouldn't be Tucson, we like the area around Sierra Vista, Tombstone and also the Benson, Willcox and Bisbee area. I have family in Tempe and Chandler but that is too metro also. We are fortunate enough to have choices. I tell my sons we may just buy an RV and just move around but they don't like that idea at all. We also really love Kingman and also New Mexico. Sometimes I think the RV idea would be really nice. But of course we'd also want to be around Tucson, it kinda still stays in our heart. ;-)
-Deb
