Bowie, Arizona

Hello Y'all,
Brenda and I have been putting on a lot of miles!  We seldom have internet connection so we have not been able to keep up our blogs. 

 Earlier in the day we had stopped at Wal-Mart in Parker, Arizona and Brenda purchased a bike.  We traveled on to Gila Bend and spent the night at a truck stop.  We biked around Gila Bend looking for a wi-fi signal.  We stopped at a gift store and were invited in to use their wi-fi.  We just quickly emailed our families and did not spend time to blog.  Today we continued on hwy 10 east and drove right through Tucson, Arizona.  It was not too bad of a drive, but I was happy to leave the city. 

We stopped at a rest area approaching Willcox.  There were really strange rock formations there, but no info as to how they got there.

This was also the area where some fairly famous Indians lived.  We were hoping we could camp there overnight, but the sign said no overnight camping.  We continued on our way and reached Willcox.  Willcox had two RV camps, but they both wanted almost $30/night so we decided to continue on and find a cheaper or free camping spot. 

We turned into Bowie, Arizona to find a small campground.  It is $14/night and that includes all hook-ups with wi-fi.  The man behind the counter was very funny.  He did not give us a camp site number so I asked him if he cared where I parked and he said I could park anywhere I liked, but he suggested I camp at an empty site.  Later I went into the store.  There were about 4 shelves spaced quite a distance from each other.  There was little merchandise on each shelf.  He said, "It don't take long to look around, does it?" The sites are mostly empty and the few RV's that are parked here look permanent.  I feel good as my RV is one of the newer ones. 


My neighbor

Bowie RV Campground

 



 

A fat man with a lot of missing teeth stopped by our campsite in his 1/2 ton.  He asked if I needed any help to get set up.  He told me he had lived here as a child, moved away for 35 yrs. and now has been back for 10 yrs.  He pointed out his trailer and was very proud of the fact that it was under a shelter. I asked what was in the town of Bowie and he said nothing but a post office.  The next nearest town is about 45 miles away. 

We have seen a variety of cacti.  We saw a lot of those cacti with the arms....the ones you see in photos.  They looked like they had been attacked by an insect or something and did not look healthy at all.  We also passed 6 policemen with machine guns who had stopped a van on the side of the hwy and were searching the van.  I had read that the border wars between Mexico and the U.S. had escalated lately, so was wondering if they were searching for drugs.  We are less than a 100 miles from the Mexican border.  Brenda wanted a phone card and the service station sold cards only written in Spanish, so there are a lot of Mexican people living in this area of Arizona. 

Tomorrow we are going to be in New Mexico. 

Hope you are all well and keeping warm.