We are now entering the part of the country where some rugged individuals try and make a go of it in sparse high desert country with limited water supplies and few economic opportunities. Every now-and-then you see an isolated house in the middle of nowhere or in some hard scrabble desert "town". One thing that seems to stand out however is the apparently common theme that when residents are through with their "stuff", they don't have many opportunities to dispose or get rid of it. Consequently, a lot of it seems to be just put "out back", except for things that maybe they can sit in or on. In that case they may end up on the front porch.
We are staying at the Pueblo El Mirage RV and Gulf Resort in El Mirage a NW Phoenix suburb. We stayed here for a week last year on the way east. It is a mega snowbird resort with a lot of park model RVs and trailers/fifth wheels that apparently stay here all year with seasonal residents. Others from the northern tier arrive usually after Thanksgiving with their rigs and stay until March/April after the snow melts back home. The facilities are excellent with just about everything a snow bird would like to do from golf to bingo, line dancing and pickle ball. We are not into any of that (at least not yet) but it is a good place to stay if you are going somewhere else.
We will be here three nights. We will do some things tomorrow, probably visiting places we have been before to see what is new or maybe what we forgot about and think we are seeing for the first time. We are having dinner Thursday night with friends from Nevada City, Rich and Sylvia Aunger who spend the winter in their house in one of the Sun City communities nearby. We will drive to Tucson on Friday and spend 3 days there with several side trips planned.
The excitement begins.
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