Buckskin Mountain SP, AZ – Monday November 16, 2015

We have started our first leg home, this stop will last until Friday.  We are going to venture out to Lake Havasu and look around the area.
We are site 60.

Here are the campsite pictures.

These pictures are from the site looking out both ways toward the Colorado River.
These are cabanas on the river which can be reserved.
I’m guessing this is Buckskin Mountain.  There is an American flag flying from the top.
This is our travels for today.
This shows where we are between Parker and the Parker Dam and the large open area of Lake Havasu.
Here is the camp ground area.
Good bye sandal feet, the temps are dropping and it is snowing at home.  You get to come out again at Mariner’s Spring Training, you’ll get a new tan.

Lost Dutchman SP – Sunday November 15, 2015

We have been at this park for two weeks and tomorrow morning we will moving down the road heading towards home.   Our GPS says we are 1583 miles from Enumclaw.
Our next stop is Buckskin Mountain SP, AZ 10 miles south of Parker, AZ.
The current plan is to be at Buckskin Mountain until Friday when we will start driving everyday on the trip home.
We want to leave enough time in case we get hung up getting through the Siskiyous. 

Lost Dutchman SP – Olive Oil – Friday November 6, 2015

We went to an olive grove today; Queen Creek Olive Mill.
It was interesting and we purchase some tasty olive oils.  They have a “Bacon” flavored olive oil.
The grove is currently 7000 trees and 16 different types of olives.
The olives are mixed to produce the flavor they are looking for:
washed
moved up to the grinder

than the centrifuge, which is the round stainless steel head in the middle of the machine.  The oil comes out the bottom spout just above the “H” in Harry.   This is their small machine, they also have one which will do 2.5 tons an hour.

It was a nice day.

 

Wupatki Natl Monument – Gallup, NM – Saturday October 3, 2015

Friday I got out and took some wildlife pictures.
This guy was directing traffic.

This guy was in charge of everyone on the north side of the hill.

I also got some more night pictures.

I just think this is cool, we are really so small in the bigger world around us.  The white line is a satellite.

Saturday was a driving day.  We had people lined up to take our site at Lees Ferry ( it really is a GREAT site ).  Left camp at 8:30 because we had a 330 mile day to get to Walmart in Gallup, New Mexico.   Got to Gallup at 8:00 p.m. and headed right into Walmart for our every other week’s worth of shopping.  This being the first of the month the store was full of people and many many of the shelves were empty.

On the way to Gallup we stopped at Wupatki National Monument for a revisit.  Jean and I first stumbled onto this monument September 15, 2004 and we thought it was time for a revisit.
Some of the wild life.
The wood beam in the middle was put here around 1100.  I wish the beams on the front of our house had lasted this long.