The Long Awaited Walk

Today was lazier than intended. We had to wait until after noon to find out whether or not we could get into a full hookup site. This meant that we couldn’t go on a walk or a bike ride until we knew what was going on. Bobby took the time to ride his bike down to the library (one and a half miles away) while Elise and I stayed at the trailer. She worked on an art project while I read to her from the latest Trixie Belden book, The Happy Valley Mystery.


This is before we moved. Shackleton is on the left-hand side of the picture.

By the time we found out that we could stay in the full hookup part of the campground, picked our site, moved the trailer and got ourselves re-situated, it was after 2:00. Then things got really bad. Elise created a fort under our dinette and was ensconced there for a while and I laid on our bed and read Maeve Binchy’s Echoes. Elise got bored under the table and joined me for some reading, each to our own book. Bobby, not quite as lazy as the rest of us, rode his bike again, this time to the Visitor’s Center. Before leaving, though, he extracted a promise from us that we would actually leave the trailer for a walk when he came back.


The view from the top.

Our walk took off from our campground and brought us to the top of a nearby hill for a look out over the desert. Behind us were the mountains and Palm Canyon where we plan to walk later this week. We talked to some folks today in the campground who took that walk today and saw lots of bighorn sheep on the trail. We’re hoping to be so lucky.



There were more desert flowers here, but smaller than the ones we had seen in Organ Pipe. Still, it’s always nice to see color in the desert!