Location, Ajo, AZ
We are actually dry camping
on BLM property on West Old Darby Wells Road south of town.
This is a popular dry
camping spot and I know about it from other RV’ers on the internet.
We drove from Tucson yesterday to Why, AZ (don’t you love the names?)
then north to Darby
Wells Road.
We are not too far off the highway but don’t really hear the traffic so it is
far enough. I am not real comfortable driving this big rig off highway. In fact
yesterday we drove a couple miles back from the highway looking for a suitable
spot for the rig but not near anyone else. People here like there solitude. I
had to turn it around by pulling into side road and making a Y turn. It worked
OK but I don’t like to do that.
Sunset last night.
We drove into Ajo today and
looked around. The old downtown looked familiar but north of town sure has
changed. The grocery store in old town has moved north on the highway and is
now a big new IGA store. There are 2 new gas stations, two Dollar stores, newly
paved streets, newly painted buildings in old town and a very large solar array
south of town. We would not have seen the solar array had we not pulled off the
road to check out a monument to citizens moved from the old cemetery to the one
in town. It appears from the inscription that the cemetery was moved to make
way for the solar array.
I judge small towns in America as good if they can support a Dairy Queen. Ajo
fills the bill. We checked it out, Budd.
We also drove about 3 miles
back on Darby
Wells Road
to see how many people are camped here. Quite a few it turns out. The most
known from the Hitch Itch website is RV Sue. We saw here Casita but didn’t want
to disturb her.
We did drive to an overlook
into the large copper pit where the volunteer docent sitting in her car yelled
out to us that they were closed. I asked her if it was closed to looking but
got no answer, so we looked, took a photo, and left.
The pit.
