Friday, April 18th

We left Morenga Palms RV Park this morning and headed to Desert Cypress RV Park in Wickenburg. Compared with the small towns we have been staying in, Wickenburg is the big city. Why they even have a movie theatre. The lady that checked us in had lived in the greater Hot Springs area, around Arkadelphia and Bismarck. John Goodman was raised in Bismarck, it's a small world.
Wickenburg has a Habitat affiliate, but we had trouble getting touch with the president of the board, so we headed for the ReStore. They had a great ReStore. We met Jo, Ali and Sue who were all enthusiastic volunteers. ReStores sell donated items for individuals and businesses with all profits going to the affiliate in order to build more houses. The ReStore in Wickenburg is greatly supported by Home Depot, who donates their discontinued and damaged items. The ReStore was very clean, had very personable volunteers and was well stocked with merchandise.
We wanted to get in at least some mileage today, so we went out to mile marker 103 and started to walk to Wickenburg which was 7 miles away. We passed a historical marker that told the story of the Wickenburg Massacre. Five people were killed and two wounded by Indians or Mexicans when they attacked the stagecoach the victims were riding on. As we walked past the Desert Caba;;erps Western Museum in downtown Wickenburg, we noticed that they were showing a movie later on that evening. It was a John Wayne movie to be shown at 6:30 pm and since it was almost 6 o'clock then, we decided we didn't have time. Instead, we had a salad for supper and then off to Screamers, a '50s style drive-in for ice cream. We watched the sun go down there.
The only thing I found today was a red ladies garter...? Stay tuned.....