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| Gila Bend Air Force Axillary Field |
The Good – we finally found the real winter! The warm one like it is supposed to be. On New Year’s Day we moved from cold Phoenix to warm Gila Bend AF Aux Field, the burial spot for Old Man Winter. Weather has been warm, sunny and very pleasant since we arrived. I have finally switched back to my uniform of the day – shorts and sandals.
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| Old Man Winter's Final Resting Place |
The Bad – Gila Bend is not a very big place and not many facilities. There is one grocery store in town, two small restaurants and three gas stations with convenience store. However, there are pretty mountains and desert all around.
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| The 5-Old Crab's names are listed under the sign! |
The Ugly – on our first visit to the lone grocery store, I noted they had no diet tonic and only two bottles of regular tonic; thinking I could pick it up later if need or I could maybe find some preferred diet tonic somewhere! A few days later I went back to get the tonic as it was the only tonic in town! Gone – I immediately started increasing the gin to reduce the utilization of tonic! Now I am forced to drink Martinis – we have plenty of gin and vermouth! Life is tuff, but we will survive!
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| Beautiful desert! |
We are moving on west to Yuma for a few days and then up to Quartzite, the big RV gathering in the desert every January. Some friends are already there and they report the party is getting started. The last week in January is also a big Rock & Gem show and BJ is really hyped about that. I am hyped on getting some diet tonic as soon as we hit Yuma!
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| A geocache location in the desert |
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| A train winding thru the desert |
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| Petroglyphs at the Gila Bend Dam Site |
Always at home, no matter where we are!!
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