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Sunday, March 29, 2020

Yuma Conservation Garden

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  The garden doesn’t look like much from outside the fence but if you’re in Yuma it’s worth seeking out to take a stroll through the cactu...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Organ Pipe National Monument and the Wall

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    Our visit to Organ Pipe National Monument coincided with the construction of the new wall which is replacing vehicle barriers that wer...
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Saturday, March 21, 2020

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument

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  Organ Pipe Cactus NM, located in the Sonoran Desert, gets about nine inches of rainfall in a year which makes it a green desert and home...
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Friday, March 13, 2020

Darby Wells Road Boondocking

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   We camped here in 2013 for a couple of days. Since then I’ve wanted to come back and spend a little more time because there’s so much t...
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Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Mine Overlook

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   The first mineral mined here was hematite which was used by Native Americans to make a red body paint. In the late 1600s Spanish miners...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Ajo History Museum

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  People have been living around Ajo for centuries – first Native Americans, then Mexican surface miners, American pit miners, and finally...
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Sunday, March 8, 2020

Murals of Ajo, Arizona

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   Ajo was established as a company town in 1914 shortly after John Greenway bought the copper mine and surrounding land. This was the hei...
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