For more than 10 years Sue Rose Bessey and her husband, Earle, enjoyed the thrill and companionship of skiing with a group of friends a couple of weeks each winter in a number of European countries, including France, Switzerland, Italy and Austria. Once this became impossible for Earle and Sue to do physically they looked for an alternative to spending the winter in snow country. Their solution has been a small town in Arizona, Green Valley, which is located about 26 miles south of Tucson and about 25 miles north of the Mexican border at Nogales.
Green Valley has a large number of seniors avoiding a harsher winter climate.
Many recreational centers, golf courses and interesting study courses for mental stimulation are big drawing cards. A multitude of interesting day trips add to its allure as well as those straight roads with high speed limits, where state police are outnumbered by border patrol on the highways. Sue and Earle also enjoy seeing Watervilles Bob and Judy Kany, who have a lovely home in Saddle Brook in the northern Tucson area. To top it all off, their grandson from Simsbury, Conn., became so enchanted with the desert and mountains of the Southwest that he is currently enrolled as a freshman at the University of Arizona in Tucson. If you are in the area, give them a call. . . .