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KOFA Queen Canyon Road

Sat 18-Feb-2023 Arizona, Travel |

We moved about 25 miles to another site off a four-wheel drive track. We moved because we like to see new desert and because we have good ATT service here. It truly is... more

Castle Dome Road

Fri 17-Feb-2023 Arizona, Travel |

David spent a while in the AM catching up on news articles.  We may not have ATT service when we travel further into the refuge. We left our site on the road to the... more

Horse Tanks

Thu 16-Feb-2023 Arizona, Travel |

We are in the KOFA Wildlife Refuge parked off an unnamed four-wheel drive road which leads from King Road to some “horse tanks.” The road can be transverse by most any... more

KOFA Wildlife Refuge

Wed 15-Feb-2023 Arizona, Travel |

The KOFA Wildlife Refuge is about 40 miles north of Yuma. It is a huge area of mountains and desert filled with cacti. There are dirt roads that crisscross the area... more

Marine Corp Air Station Yuma

Tue 14-Feb-2023 Arizona, Travel |

Dave, one of David’s former PhD students, works at Marine Corp Air Station Yuma (MCAS) as a data analyst . He was able to take us on a tour of his office space and the... more

County Road 15 1/2

Mon 13-Feb-2023 Arizona, Travel |

We drove from Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument to Yuma for a visit with our friends David and Jennifer. The ride was uneventful. Once again we remarked on the quaint... more

Games Day

Sun 12-Feb-2023 Arizona, Travel |

We had no great plans for today other than driving to the border where there is a convenience store where Janet hoped to get some milk. No luck. So we decided to drive... more

Desert View Loop

Sat 11-Feb-2023 Arizona, Travel |

We had to move today. We had planned to stay here just three days, but decided to extend another two days. It was not unexpected that we couldn’t stay in the same site.... more

Senita Basin Loop

Fri 10-Feb-2023 Arizona, Travel | 2 comments

Today we drove south toward the border, then turned west on a very dusty road that paralleled the border wall. The wall here is like the one we saw in Texas — steel... more

Estes Canyon Trail

Thu 9-Feb-2023 Arizona, Travel |

After a quiet morning, we took the Ajo Canyon drive to access the Estes Canyon hiking trail. The drive is a mostly gravel/dirt road through 21 miles of mesquite, cacti,... more