Kevin’s package did come in, and he is now ready to practice some astrophotography. It is a bit complicated due to the full moon tonight though! The High Chaparral RV park was definitely not the place to do it either, so he will be trying it in Quartzsite soon.
On our way to Tucson, we took a stop at the Pinal Airport, one of the big airplane graveyards. You can’t get right up to the planes, but you can get pretty close.
While Kevin was impatiently waiting for his tracking board he was also keeping busy making a cool doohickey for the MH. Our model has a very inconvenient screen door latch. It is set quite low so I can’t reach it without going up (from the outside) or down (from the inside) a couple of steps. Awkward with lots of stuff in your hands. So he made a new latch that is higher but connects to the original. Ignore the dirt on the door – we had a windstorm!
I am quite impressed! It works marvelously.
Yesterday we left Casa Grande to go back to Quartzsite for a week. We had made another Amazon order, setting the pickup for Parker, AZ. There was a dreadful windstorm forecast, so we left at 9:00, arriving at Hi Jolly BLM area at 1:00, just as the wind gusts were getting fierce. We basically just stayed put inside until the wind died down in the early evening. Then we opened the windows and let the cats enjoy the light breeze that remained. We haven’t ever stayed here before, since we normally stay in one of the Long Term Visitor Areas (LTVAs) that charge $40/2 weeks but provide access to water and a dump station. Since we are basically just marking time until we can get into Death Valley, we didn’t need that this time.
In general our boondocking setup is working great. We use a lot of electricity with a residential refrigerator, satellite TV system, and heater fan, but an hour of generator and the solar recharge it pretty well most days. Our fresh water (90 gallons) and waste tanks (50 gallons black, 70 gallons gray) can easily accommodate a full week. We hope to leave here on Monday, but we might need to stay until Tuesday for yet another Amazon delivery.