Mr. Cogburn has a lot of Ostriches, look at all the ones in the back of the property.

Well, I finally made it to Wickenburg.... Actually, I guess I shouldn't say "finally made it " because that sounds like I was trying really, really, hard and just barely made it. The truth is it wouldn't matter if I got here next month, because I don't have any place I have to be, need to be, or at the moment, want to be.

Today was a great day for traveling, T-shirt weather all the way. But next week it's supposed to be cloudy and rainy, but still warm, so it sounds like some good sunrise and sunset weather to me.

I didn't get to Wickenburg till about 3 o'clock this afternoon, partially because I left late, and there was a lot of traffic on the roads. I'm not sure why there was so much traffic, maybe it was Friday traffic, and folks were going somewhere.

The "Big Show" in Quartzsite starts tomorrow, I believe, glad I'm not there. It's probably too crowded for me to enjoy being anywhere in the area. But I am interested in how many people are showing up, or not showing up, because of the Kung-flu. Maybe by the time this weekend's over, folks will be writing about it on the Internet and will have an idea about how the "Big Show" is working out this year.

                                theboondork

Did you know an Ostrich only has two toes on each foot? Two toes hardly qualifies as a foot. This Ostrich held up his foot so I could see, when I doubted they only have two toes

These Ostriches are confused. there's a tourist standing there, that would be me, but there's no food appearing in their dish. Tourist means food, they were very confused.

 Rooster Cogburn's Ostrich ranch has more than just Ostriches. They have goats,  sheep, deer, poultry, and Donkeys. These two Donkeys can sing the entire Star-Spangled Banner in perfect harmony. And to prove it, here's the talented duo hitting the high note in the part that goes... O'er the land of the freeeeee. That's a hard note to hit but they do it perfectly.

I've enjoyed being here at Picacho State Park so much that I re-upped for another night. I considered staying longer, but they're full for the weekend. Come to think of it, that's one of my secrets, that's known to just about everybody, of finding a place to stay. You have to be extremely lucky to find places to stay during the busy season without a reservation on weekends and holidays; I usually don't even try. I just plan on boondocking on any special days, which of course, is fine with me, I avoid the noisy weekend crowds, and I'm happier boondocking anyway.

Last night before sunset, the clouds looked pretty good, so I thought that might lead to a nice sunset, so I took a walk in the desert to see if I could get some sunset pictures. I know the pictures look like I was stumbling around in the dark, but actually, it was lighter outside than the camera makes it look him, and I could see perfectly well without using a flashlight.

The sunset turned out pretty good, not spectacular, but not bad. This is one of the things that made me think about staying another night in hopes there would be an even better sunset, but so far, the cloud situation isn't shaping up that well, so tonight's sunset probably won't be as good.

So I reckon tomorrow I'll be heading for the Wickenburg, Congress, area if something else doesn't distract me. But since I don't have any reasons to be someplace for the rest of the winter, it looks like I'm just going to be wandering aimlessly and stopping wherever it suits me at the moment, which I have no problem with; I like to be surprised by where I  end up.

                                          theboondork

I hit the road about 10 o'clock this morning, intending to crawl into Wickenburg about 2 this afternoon. But, because of my squirrel like brain, I'm easily distracted, so about an hour later when I passed the well-known tourist trap of "Rooster Cogburn's Ostrich Farm." I decided since I haven't been there for a long time, I should stop by and feed the Ostriches. Well, one thing led to another, and before you know it since it was a sunny warm day, I decided I should go down the road to the nearby Picacho State Park and spend the night, which is where I am happily ensconced at the moment.

It seemed like there was a lot of traffic on I-10 this morning, and as usual, a lot of the traffic was semi's. But I didn't encounter any traffic congestion even going through Tucson.

Since attending the rodeo at the Pima County Fairgrounds, which didn't work out incredibly well for me, was the last thing I had planned on doing this winter, it looks like I have nothing but free time on my hands now and can go wherever my mood takes me. It's too bad, so many places are closed and events canceled due to the Bat flu because it definitely limits things a person can do now.

So it looks like instead of going to different places and attending various events like I had hoped to do this winter, I'm going to be doing a lot of just hanging around. There's nothing wrong with that; in fact, I'm quite good at just hanging around because usually, that's what full-timers do. Our lives aren't much different than living in a house without wheels. It's fairly mundane, somewhat repetitive, and sometimes even boring; in other words, it's just like living in an ordinary house. The only thing different for us is we can pack up and go anytime or anywhere that strikes our fancy, and my fancy gets stuck pretty often.

                                       theboondork

Not a great picture but what can I say, I was driving down the Interstate at 60 miles an hour, towing the trailer and taking a picture with one hand, out of the driver's side window.

Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson is not the only place that has an airplane boneyard. The Pinal Airpark has a boneyard for commercial airplanes. This is where the airlines mothball the planes that they're not using. I would imagine with the Bat flu scaring passengers to death, there's probably a lot of planes here right now.

Picacho state Park campground. That's the Arctic Fox in the middle the picture. I picked that spot because it's on the outside edge of the campground so I can look out my door and see nothing but desert and mountains

There's a little walking path that runs right by my campsite. It moseys through the desert to the foot of the mountains.