Does driving to Wal-Mart make any sense? ~ 2 comments.
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.