It was very cold for us west coast types last night. By early morning, temperatures were down near freezing so we malingered drinking Irish Cream-fortified coffee in the trailer until about 10:00 before wandering outside to prepare for departure. My shorts and T-shirt regular attire may be a bit too comfy for temperatures in the 40’s.
By about 10:30 we were ready to go and we split from Justin’s Diamond J RV. After passing through some poorly delineated and striped construction before hitting I-10, we jumped on the freeway and headed east. About an hour and a half later, we turned off I-10 and headed south on AZ-90.
Twenty miles later, we pulled into the Quail Ridge RV Park just north of Huachuca City near Sierra Vista. Huachuca City is the location of Fort Huachuca, home to the Buffalo Soldiers who did most of the fighting in exchanges with the Apaches during the U.S, government’s efforts to eradicate Native Americans that stood in the way of whitey’s land grabs during our alleged Manifest Destiny. The program was bullshit but it was effective at wiping out the indigenous population. Strangely, it wasn’t the fighting but disease that capped the locals. Old movies about big campaigns of white cowboys slaughtering the Apaches are thrilling but mostly inaccurate since black soldiers did most of the work.
Now Fort Huachuca now has strange balloons and antennas pointed south, perhaps in an effort to detect pesky immigrant Mexicans that were clever enough to get over the ugly sheet pile wall visible a few miles to the south. Those too stupid to operate ladders would seem to be the only folks stranded south of the wall. If Trump has his way, all of those poor ingrates that are challenged by ladder operation will be obliged to stay within the borders of Mexico. The rest can flood over, just like before we wasted 18 billion dollars. Ain’t we twits?
Nice things about this part of the world are the abundance of birds, which makes me happy and we have found a restaurant that has good tamales. We will be visiting the tamale joint tomorrow.