Arizona outdoor Expo tomorrow
The weather in Phoenix couldn’t be nicer. The 10-day forecast is calling for temperatures in the 70s and 80s, low humidity, and no rain in the forecast ….. it’s almost as if I were in charge of planning the weather.
I can usually tell when I'm traveling too often when I wake up in the morning and have to think about where I am. This is happening more often since I've been going back and forth between trust lands at Wickenburg and trust lands at Ben Avery gun range. And since I'm always in a semi-empty desert, even looking outside my location is not instantly recognizable.
I'll be driving down the road to Ben Avery gun range tomorrow morning to attend the Arizona outdoor Expo. And I believe this will be the first time I've ever attended the Expo without boondocking at Ben Avery. The reason that's important is that the Expo will attract around 15,000 visitors, and, needless to say, that many people heading to Ben Avery on the weekend create some serious traffic problems.
In past expos, I've seen the police controlling traffic at the entrances to Ben Avery, and from the looks of it, I would sure hate to get caught up in that mess. I'm not sure if it will work, but I'll probably do my usual trick of arriving at the event an hour or two early and hanging out in the camper to try and avoid the traffic problems. Leaving the Expo at the correct time will also save me an hour of sitting in traffic.
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More barrel racers than you might expect ride with a kissey face expression. I don’t know why that is, but its very common.
You might never notice it unless you’re taking pictures, as the race typically lasts only about 17 seconds or less.
The ladies that use the kissey face expression will do so for the entire race... Except when they're yelling at their horse.
I don’t know if they realize they’re even doing it, and I wouldn’t want to be the first one to tell them….I’ve seen what they can do to a thousand-pound horse.
This is a picture I took from the top of the little hill I walked up, and it clearly shows the main part of the Arizona trust lands boondocking area.
Where those campers are is not the total amount of the trust lands, the trust lands are all over the picture, it's just that most campers can’t get to the majority of the trust land, in fact the little hill I'm standing on taking this picture is part of the trust lands, the RVers only park in the easy to get to spots.
Vulture peak in the background.
Another pet grave. I run into these every once in a while when I'm walking around in the desert. These folks buried their pet next to a Saguaro, which will be there for hundreds of years, so it makes an excellent grave marker.