BLM Trails and Arizona Sunriders

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners and instant cameras teach patience to its young?

Saturday was another perfect day in the weather department.  It was pretty good in other areas too.  Saturday is the day that breakfast is served in the clubhouse.  What a breakfast it was!!  For $3.00 we were served a very large and delicious breakfast.  It started with two cooked-to-order eggs, hash browns, a huge piece of ham, biscuits (gravy if wanted), orange juice and coffee.  Now that was one heck of a deal!

 

Check out this  ATV loaded on top of the truck.  I had to ask how he did that.  He winched it up.  They do have ramps but winching is safer going up.  Sometimes he drives it down.  Ugh!   That looks like an accident just waiting to happen but I’m sure he knows what he’s doing.  At least I hope he does.

This was also the day that the park was having a yard sale.  Those folks who had items to sell put up a table with their goods.  So, after breakfast we walked through the park and checked out everything for sale.  Nothing really jumped out at us so all we took back to our RV was the breakfast we’d eaten in the clubhouse.  Well, we did walk some of it off.

It was such a nice day that after the yard sale we decided to take a ride.  We were going to check out some more trails around the Kofa National Wildlife Area south of “Q”.   Even Duchess went with us.

We stopped about 30 miles down the road for a little snack --- corn dog and fried mushrooms.  Corn dog was good but we had to toss the mushrooms out.

Later in the day we made another trip to see if any new vendors had shown up on the main drag.  There were a few.  We also saw a few interesting sights.  The thing in “Q” is that you never know what to expect or what you might see.  Check out the donkey and the bull in the picture below.  Evidently, it’s a show (Cutler’s Donkey and Bull Show). The show can be seen in Blythe.  The donkey and bull are driven around in a van as advertising.  It worked because everyone gawked.  Look what’s hanging out each window …. a miniature bull on one side and a miniature donkey on the other – Rowdy and Barney.

Then, we saw this.

The sign next to the tub indicates they are proctologists and are offering their service to the RV crowd.  Do you know what that is?  Well, according to Wikipedia proctologists ….” deal with disorders of rectum, anus and colon.”  I know … this is absolutely everything you didn’t need to know.  However, the proctologists around “Q” (and there are several) deal with cleaning and flushing out the black water tanks in RVs.  I’m not sure why they used the guy in the tub as their symbol unless it was just to get attention.  Attention gets business but not sure about what qualifications are required to use that title.  Is a degree offered in RV proctology? 

In the evening we walked back to the clubhouse to listen to the Skyhawks.  They had been at the music jam we attended on Monday but not as a group.  We really enjoyed them on Monday.  Thus, we thought we’d go listen again. This is a very small clubhouse.  Without really thinking we sat right in front of the drums. It was my fault.  They have a fantastic drummer but in a room this size where all the music flows into one sound system, it wasn’t a good place to sit.  All we could really hear were the drums.  After a few songs, we moved across the room.  We still had trouble hearing the vocals over the drum as did the others.  The mike was adjusted a little but not enough to make it really happen.  Oh well, we used their break to really make a break.   That’s about the time we noticed that they were collecting a fee ---- $6 each.  We didn’t know that and didn't have any money with us.  Oops … I wonder if it was a donation.  Nothing was listed on the calendar about a fee.

Since we were only there for half of it, should our fee be half or $3?  Then, since we only heard half of them, should our fee be half of the half or $1.50?  Either way, I guess we owe something.  Maybe we’ll square up at the office today … maybe we’ll ask.

Fantastic musicians but poor acoustics.  We would definitely listen again if they were located in another setting or if only the vocals had mikes. 

There really is a lot going on at this park.  What a difference it is compared to the Arizonian we stayed at for a month in Gold Canyon.   Monday another meeting was scheduled in the club house that we wanted to attend.  This one was by the Arizona SunRiders ATV Club.  Since we were here and the meeting was here, why not attend?

The meeting was really interesting.  The "discussion" with the head of the Western Arizona BLM region really got hammered with questions and concerns.  We have not been involved with what has happened in the past. We weren’t even aware of it.   From the meeting it seems that some of the BLM has been closed to motorcycle riders, ATV riders, geocachers and boondockers with more areas on the chopping block in the future.  Thousands of people in numerous clubs have come together to try to  convince the BLM to keep the areas open for public use.   The decision to open or close BLM areas is not just for the Arizona area but for BLMs all over the country.  You can imagine that at times the meeting got a little heated.

See our new yellow and green ATV hats.  It's not that we wear ball caps but we liked them.  They matched our green and yellow ATVs.

'Tis life on the road.