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Published: June 16th 2017
Art through the millennia
The grid like pattern they tell us, is one of the oldest form of artwork dating from 750 BC to 1 AD.Geo: 32.3757, -112.872
I 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 the painted rocks or to the organ pipe cacti. We're doing both.
But to the rocks!! From before the time of Christ native indigenous peoples have been communicating through pictures chiseled on rock. We missed seeing the ones out of Lo de Marcos in Mexico because not being half goat, were unable to do the rock clambering necessary. But these you can just walk right up
to! They're incredible. You feel like you're walking on hallowed ground as you circle the hill where they're concentrated.
BLM operates the site and the campground next door and they're both pristine.
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Allen & Judie
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We were wondering where you were now! Sounds like you are still having a good time. So much to see. Love Your Pics you send. You are sure the trailers in your motor home. That is the way to go! You camp ground sounds lovely. Be careful
and stay safe. Wait to here again from you.