So this morning after breaking camp, I drove the 28 miles or so to the town of Safford and the location of Maverick powersports. Mostly a OHV dealer but they did offer motorcycle tire repair as well.
Luckily I had been traveling the last couple of years or so with spare inner tubes for both the front and rear tires on the TW200. I unloaded the motorcycle there, handed it over the inner tube and left for a grocery run while they worked on it.
Groceries purchased, I return to Maverick Motorsports and in a few minutes had possesion again of Yagi for the princely sum of $68. Not bad at all, I am really past the point of wrestling with tires and changing inner tubes on the road!
I also purchased a bottle of slime that's supposedly might prevent future flats due to punctures on the front tire:
Then there was a 90 minute drive down to the Chiricahua National Monument area where I found some dispersed camping sites along FR 42 aka Piney Canyon Road. I went quite a ways past and uphill of the site I ended up on, having to turn around twice on narrow mountain roads when things get a little sketchy for the RV. I really should have parked the RV somewhere, and use the motorcycle for reconnaissance but nope.
All of the campsites that I spotted are very shady and we are at pretty high altitude for Arizona, the site being at 5491 ft. To give you an idea, how well dunes it's at 3400 ft so a bit of an altitude gain.
I am camping in the Coronado National Forest, and for a change of pace in Arizona, it actually has trees! In fact it's shadier than I like since I had to keep moving the solar panels around there in order to catch the sun. Perhaps I will change my mind about this once the warming trend returns after tomorrow's forecasted cold snap.
I'd say about 80% of the sites I spotted we're already occupied when I showed up.
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