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| our own saguaro at site 174 Organ Pipe Cactus Nat Mon |
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| Ajo square |
Did bike to Alamo primitive camp, 6 miles round trip. Nice day, clear and pleasant. Alamo camp no big shakes but okay. Split for Ajo the elegant old copper town. Got a coffee on the square and thence into library. Heading back to Yuma and Senator Wash.
Stopped in at Sophia’s Mexican Cafe in Gila Bend for a late lunch, had much of it for dinner as well. Hit Frye’s Foods in Foothills, a stepchild of Yuma, for supplies, forgot the Halls and almost put gasoline in the bus. Took 95 and Imperial Dam Road through the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Grounds, which seems like a place where you learn to drives tanks and other things through mud and difficult spots, to good old Senator Wash Reservoir where we found a quiet spot but the res had been drawn down again probably for the produce that was coming up in perfect rows in vast fields between the cattails and the desert. This area is like a successfully terraformed Mars.
S chose not to join me in my lentils and slop from lunch with the diced fresh tomatoes as dark fell in the tamarisks and dirt here at the res; she’s on the mend and wants to stay that way also she didn’t care for the presentation at Sophia’s of the Sonoran Enchilada which was too radical a departure from the regular enchilada to her way of thinking.
We hung the hammock from the tamarisks over the beds of needles several feet thick and I am thinking nice but maybe snakes. Speaking of snakes there were 2 or 3 tiny stupid mosquitos as dark fell, then none.
There are several other campers on this bit of the shore, some sitting around a fire some watching tv in their unit some apparently not home. Can’t see anyone from our place only if you walk to the outhouse on the hill.
We may stay here a day or two, launch the kayak, fish, read, hammock, etc.
