Today, I left at 8:20 a.m. and by 1:00 p.m. I had dumped tanks, filled up the freshwater tank in Willcox, AZ and set up a campsite in the Hot Well Dunes recreation area.
The place is almost full, I think there were only two more designated camping sites remaining. Not that designated sites are adhered to by some of the other rigs I saw close to the around the hot tubs about a half mile down the road.
As the golden hour developed, I rode Yagi to the overlook area at the edge of the dunes with Javelina Peak in the background:
3.5x digital zoom shot, can you spot Yagi?
Riding back to the campsite, I saw a BLM ranger truck coming my way so I parked on the side of the road to let him through. As I waved at the ranger as he passed me by, I was surprised to see two other ranger vehicles following close behind. Interesting.
The rangers headed to the sketchy looking skoolie rig I had seen parked near the hot tub area on the way to taking the above pictures. I watched the rangers walk up to the people who owned the skoolie and they talked for a while.
The rec area's site host came up to me as I was watching and we talked for a bit. It was him that had called in the rangers. About 3 hours prior, the site host had to talk to the people belonging to the skoolie.
They were apparently not behaving themselves, bringing their dogs into the hot tubs, and basically telling the site host they didn't have to listen to him and that they could do whatever they wanted to. The site host ended up shutting down the pumps for the hot tubs way ahead of schedule, and he was there now to clean up each hot tub due to dogs having been in them.
People like this is why we can't have nice things. Also, I would think it's not good to put an animal inside a hot tub?
Anyways, the host assured me that the skoolie people would be going in the morning, they were apparently part of the rainbow family of the light group. I had to look them up, basically new age hippies the way I understood it.
So besides that mild unpleasantness, all is well otherwise here. I'll be here a few days as I work my way back to Colorado.
Altitude:3409 ft
High temperature: 89°F.
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