February 8-11, 2016 Tonopah to Ajo, Arizona

We headed into town to resupply. The thermometer on the bus said it was 80 degrees. We are camped in Tonopah outside of Phoenix. We will shop on the outskirts.

Nice warm day 80 degree day and John decides to wash the bus. I decided to go to the pool.

The bus at Saddle Mountain RV park.  Sunset among the palm trees.

Sunset view from our site and the moon with a fan palm tree.

I don’t think I would like to stay at this campground just west of Phoenix. A finished basket with three shells in the bottom I found on the beach and set in resin and 6 shell beads.

This is the current masterpiece I am working on. It has a piece of glass I made in the bottom, it is set in resin and some glass beads. I spent a couple hours at the rock shop at the Saddle Mountain RV resort grinding the outsides and drilling holes in some of these basket centers I had previosly set in resin. More shells, pine cone slices,  stone frogs, kokopeli’s, arrow heads a moose and wolf. I have lots to play with now.

I was riding my bike back with clean laundry on back and the bike slide on some gravel when I turned the corner and I went down. Major banged up, bruises and road rash. John pulled some medicinal frozen steaks out of the freezer to ice my numerous wounds. We don’t have room for ice, just meat and pesto in the freezer. The worst part was I had my camera in my pocket, landed on it. Got a huge bruise on my hip and broke the camera. John bought a bag of ice and drove me to Phoenix to buy another camera. What a sweet heart. I break everything I touch, but this little camera lasted 2 years. Not bad. It still works, the photos are kind of blurry tho.

The rest of these photos are from the new camera. Another Olympus Tough. We’ll see how tough it is. Another Country coach parked next to us at the RV park. You don’t see many on the road, and they don’t end up parked  by us. It is two years older than ours, but the same length and model. We toured each other coaches and compared notes.  We  took off for Ajo. Here are trip photos.  A huge motor cycle rally we drove by, then a big bike race, this was one of the aid stations, a shut down power station , and a solar complex, and green fields.

This bridge was pretty narrow and rickety looking. The coach is only 12 ft 6 inches  tall  so we fit, but it was pretty narrow.  In Gila Bend, Arizona we passed the Best western Space Age Lodge complete with a space ship on top and lots of dinosaurs.

Ajo is kind of at the junction of the road for Tucson and Mexico and the  gateway to Organ Pipe national monument.  I like the cactus welcome sign. There are numerous of these places to buy Mexican insurance. We are very close to the border. Lots of nice art around town. Downtown is a couple adobe churches and a huge square.  I will get better photos later. We may even be here for this Valentine Banquet. It is  a three course sit down Meatloaf dinner. John does not want to go, he says we can have our own heart shaped meat loaf at home.

4 years ago we were on our way somewhere else and drove through Ajo. John saw this sign for burgers and craft beer so we stopped for lunch at the 100 Estrella resturant. It is a really good resturant.  Ajo was cute, so this is our third time here. We had a drink and appitizer here tonight. It was dark, but we walked around the historic adobe town square. Most of it is empty, but it is restored and very pretty. The train station is the tourist information center now and there are a couple small shops. One of the theatre’s is a coffee shop with  limited hours.  There was a huge open pit mine here, when it left so did most of the town.

This is two photos in the square, the top one is looking up at the dome, the bottom one is John standing just under it in one of the corners whispering to me in the opposite corner and I could hear him.  Good acoustics.