We drove into the mountain area for a little while and then stopped here for lunch.
Most of the trail was just gravel, but some areas had more rocks than this.
Crossing one of the dry washes.
We learned that one of the palm trees in our RV park is a date palm. There are ripe dates growing on the yellow branches.
On Monday, our friends from Saylorville invited us to go Phoenix to the Ikea store. They had arranged to have lunch there with another couple from Saylorville. It was an interesting store, but according to the pictures that I took, I was most impressed by the job that the electricians did installing these overhead conduits. They certainly took pride in their work!
We spotted this guy out one one of our desert treks. He appeared to be old and lame.
On Wednesday, we took a tour out to the Harquahala Mine with the Quartzsite Historical Society. It was about an eight mile drive out to the mine from the town of Solome. There used to be a town of about 500 people here when the mine was active. The cemetary has about 50 graves, many of which are no longer marked. This is the only one with a concrete marker. There are no names on any of them.
The building in the background looked like a dynamite storage building with a water tank on top.
The view from an old building site.
A closeup of the dynamite storage building.
Not much left of the old mine supervisor's house.
We just worked on projects around here for most of the rest of the week. Yesterday I helped cook the Christmas dinner at the QIA community center. Non-traditional dinner, gumbo with red beans and rice.
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