A Couple of Days in Hickiwan Trails RV Park

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So here we are in Why, Az.  #1 is the Hickiwan Trails RV park which is just inside the Tohona O’odham Indian Reservation.  Yes folks, they are still Indians in the US of A!  A short 10 mile drive into Ajo and you have it all.  Surrounded by the Organ Pipe Cactus National Park, Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Base and the Indian Reservation with desert, mountains and cactus in every direction. 

Dead quiet here and nice for a few days but after that….what?  Eric says there are lots of people here just getting away from it all. 

Still a few rigs on both sides and you rarely see anyone outside. 

Lots of room out here.

Saturday morning I did laundry in the park which has decent cheap facilities and after lunch it was time to head into Ajo for some groceries.

A quick ten mile trip into Ajo for groceries at the Olsen market/Ace hardware store.  Coming into Ajo I noticed they had done some artwork on the first building as you enter town.  Note the sign “ Revitalize not Militarize.” 

Very attractive and done by talented artists.

One of the big churches in the middle of town.

Town centre.

The quiet main street of Ajo.

My first shopping trip back in the USA is always a shock pricewise.  This is a small town with a good grocery store and it has just about anything you want.  Meat is good at a decent price, nice deli, and hugely expensive vegetables. Add our almost 30% exchange and I just have to close my eyes at the cash register.  It’s always hard after the fresh,  cheap vegetables of Mexico.  I miss my vegetable guy so much!

Heading back and you can see the tailings from the concentration process at the New Cordelia open pit copper mine.  It has been inactive since 1983 but if you read about it on Wikipedia you will see it has had a long and colorful history. 

New Cornelia mine - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Cornelia_mine

10 miles to Why and 103 to Rocky Point.  It’ll really be rocking over the Easter weekend.

Crappy picture but you get the idea of how large the tailings piles are.  

Tomorrow we are off to Quartzite for a few days.