Geo: 32.3757, -112.872I thought I was through blogging, but we've stayed in such interesting places the last few weeks I'm compelled to add them too. Last night we camped amongst the rattlesnakes and flowering bristle brush in our first boondocking of the trip. For $4 we had no water, no showers, no hookups and no bathrooms but we did have flat ground, extended elbow room and lots of starry sky. The Painted Rock Petroglyph Site is about 18 miles out of Gila Bend which is really not a place anyone actually chooses to go to. Hardly anybody wakes up in the morning and says, wow, I can't wait to spend the day in Gila Bend. It's a watering hole in the vast open desert between Casa Grande and Yuma. But from here you can go to
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