Does driving to Wal-Mart make any sense?
The weather is now what it should be for this time of year, 70s or 80s in the daytime, mostly 50s at night, and clouds now and then. I hope this sticks around for a while, since this has been really great.
I went into town today and bought some groceries and filled up some water jugs. Even though it's cooled off considerably, I'm still drinking a lot of water because, after all, it is still a desert.
I gave some thought to driving to the nearest Walmart, which is about 40 miles away, to do some shopping, but I can't get it to make any sense financially. Yes, I'll save some money on Walmart's lower prices, but it will be an 80-mile round-trip to Walmart, versus an 8-mile round-trip to the Safeway, and with diesel fuel over six dollars a gallon, that alone would make it a dealbreaker.
To solve that problem, the fine folks of Wickenburg load up their trucks with Walmart groceries so they only have to go to Walmart once a month. But that doesn't work for me since I don't have the storage space, the weight-carrying capability, or the refrigerator space to store that many groceries. So I'm pretty much stuck having to shop every week, and limiting what I can buy that needs to be in the refrigerator.
Oh well, there are good points and bad points about everything. I had a pretty big fifth wheel with a lot of storage space and a full-size refrigerator, but it was slow, hard to park, and couldn't get into a lot of places. But now my camper is highly mobile, small, and easy to deal with, and travels at the same speed an ordinary car does. But there's not a whole lot of living space. That's just the way life is; you can get something, but you can't get everything.
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Last night's sunset. Not great, but satisfying.
As a camera owner, I am required by law to take pictures of Saguaros at sunset; failure to do so requires being forced to spend the entire winter in Colorado. At an altitude of 10,000 feet or greater.
Early morning walk on a jeep trail.