A trip to town. ~ 2 comments
I ran out of food and water. So even my procrastination and lackadaisical attitude couldn’t keep me from going into town to buy some needful things.
One….. Food was at the very top of my list. I literally didn’t have a single can of anything left in the cupboard. I realize canned food isn’t always healthy, but it beats anything I can make. So, Safeway was my first stop.
Two….Just down the road from Safeway is a brand-new, quite large, modern tire shop, but it's not the tires I'm interested in. In the parking lot, there is a self-help kiosk-type building that sells water and ice, and the water is only 25 cents a gallon. I used to buy water at Safeway, but the machines were at the front door, there was no nearby parking, and the water was 35 cents a gallon. But I suffered through that anyway until this new place opened up, and not only was it cheaper, but I could drive right up next to the machine to fill my empty gallon containers. Remember, this is the Sonoran Desert; water is not easy to find, and it's pretty expensive when you do.
Three….Farther down the road is a gas station with inexpensive propane—the cheapest I’ve found. So I filled up a tank.
Four….I pulled up to a diesel pump at the same station that sells propane, and was absolutely shocked to see diesel at $5.20 a gallon…. I couldn't believe it, that is, without a doubt, the highest price I have ever paid for diesel fuel, any time, anywhere, but what can you do? I topped up my fuel tank, realizing this is yet another reason my travels will be even more limited. Now I've got plenty of diesel fuel to go wherever I would like—if I could just think of someplace I would like to go.
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If you look a little low, left of center, you can see a few RVs, and they are in the same Arizona trust lands area where I'm staying and where I took this picture from. This might give you some idea of how large this trust land near Wickenburg, Arizona, truly is.
This is the dirt road that goes near the base of Vulture Peak. This is the kind of road I have to walk on now that I'm concerned about the possibility of rattlesnakes, thanks to the current heat wave.
This sure doesn't look like what most people believe the desert should look like.