Slow Couple of Days, Errands in Ajo and some more Murals

 Sunday and Monday this week were spent doing pretty much nothing but reading, listening to audio books and relaxing.  Sunday was nice and warm, Monday not so much warm as extremely windy!

I did, seemingly successfully and once again under RichardM's guidance, diagnose a metallic sounding impact noise experienced when Scarlett negotiated rough terrain conditions.

It appears, that the driveshaft on the sidecar rig had slid back out of the "donut" which functions as a coupler between the front of the driveshaft and the output shaft from the transmission.  Sliding back, it would impact the base of the final drive's input shaft, causing the metallic noise.

The driveshaft's yoke now flush with 

the rubber "donut"

You can see, the shiny bit, how much forward the

drive shaft portion was pulled.

A short test drive on semi-rough terrain failed to reproduce the metallic sounding impact noise I'd felt/heard before, so I'm calling it good for now.  More testing to follow of course.

Tuesday, February 22

Rode Yagi the 12 miles or so to the town of Ajo to get cash from the ATM at the bank ($5 surcharge!) and pick up an Amazon package from the General Delivery service at the Post Office.  It's the oil filters for Scarlett's upcoming (in 1000 km) oil change.

After errands were done, it was time for some pictures:

I found the rear of the town's main church more photographically interesting than the front side.

The arches at the town's main business/shopping plaza:

I'd taken pictures of the murals at the town's Artist Alley before, here's murals outside of that alley, along the walls of nearby buildings.  LINK to previous pics.

As before, interpretation is up to you:

My favorite mural, weird, but eye-catching

artist: Mike (DaWolf) Baker

Sedona

artist: Harriet Wood aka Miss Hazard

I like the solitude expressed here....

The winds had picked up while I was in town and it was a very windy 12 miles back to the campsite!  It would get up to 65 degrees today but would feel much cooler due to the wind chill!

Supposed to be even cooler tomorrow with a good chance of rain, sounds like an indoor day for me.