Early in the month, we were able to get to Wickenberg for their Goldrush Days Parade. There are a lot of 'cowboys' and retirement communities around Wickenberg and their parade is definately different than the local parades back in PA. It's the first time I saw a steer riding in a car. There were lots of horses, a couple of stagecoaches, and all of the 'girls' in the dance troups had white hair.
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| Have you ever seen steers with horns this big?? |
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| No 'fast' stops! |
Two of the couples from Montana that we got to know last year had decided to spend the winter at a campground in CA this year so they could explore ATV-ing in a different terrain. The end of the month, we took Rod and Ellen and trailered our quads to spend the day with our friends and ride the dunes near their campground. It's so interesting to see the landscape change. They had no Saguaro cactus, but they had a huge Tamarisk tree in the middle of the dunes where we stopped for lunch. We rode through some unique rock formations that the locals have named.
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| Tamarisk Tree |
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| Skull Rock |
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| Praying Nun |
The weather here this winter has been all over the place; record highs, record lows, and several rainy days ( a lot more rain than last year). There are signs along the roads warning against driving through if there is any water on the road, and this year we actually came to a flooded area and had to turn around. It didn't look too deep and we probably could have driven through, but why take the chance.
