While at Escapade, we decided to take advantage of an opportunity to join the Elks with an accelerated initiation. All we needed to do is show up at the Elks lodge in Willcox, AZ on Tuesday, March 27 at 5:30 pm for the initiation ceremony, pay the annual dues and we would be in. Dan was among 75 other individuals from Escapade that decided to join. That meant we had to find something to do from Friday until Tuesday evening.
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Escapade and Amado
De Anza RV Resort
After leaving BLM land north of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, we spent a couple days at De Anza RV Resort in Amado, AZ. Once again, we hooked up with Jim and Corinne and had the wonderful opportunity to meet Corinne’s dad, also named Jim. We even got to have dinner at his place one night.
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Our final five days of boondocking before returning to the civilization that is an RV park was spent at Gunsight Wash BLM, just south of Why, AZ. Yes, the town’s name is Why and I don’t know why. Once again we seem to be tracing the footsteps of our friends, Jim and Corinne. We arrived here the day before they planned to leave. One big advantage of this was Jim driving Dan around in their Jeep to find a good site to setup for the 5 days. As a result, we have been staying in what is probably our best boondocking site yet.
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Hippee Hole BLM
We continue our boondocking adventures with 4 days just outside of the Cibola National Wildlife Refuge. The promise of this location is lots of migratory birds. Unfortunately, the majority of them have already started their trek north. Speaking with family in the northeast, these birds may regret departing so soon. This is another thing we need to adjust to – for migratory birds to show up in the north in late March they have to leave the south in early to mid February.
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Clark Dry Lake BLM
After boondocking for 5 days outside of Joshua Tree National Park, we moved southwest about 80 miles and setup for more boondocking in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. We met up with our friends, Jim and Corinne, who were just finishing up a stay at this interesting park in southern California. One of the unique attractions in this area is the collection of sculptures scattered through out the desert. The most popular sculpture has to be the serpent that spans the road north of town. We also enjoyed the giant bird feeding its babies a snake. The various dinosaur sculptures were also very interesting. The level of detail was amazing!
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