A Day of Rest

Sunday February 26^th

Not much exploring today, mostly a rest day; late in getting up and never stirred out of the trailer until after 3pm. Went out for an early supper to the Dirt Water Springs Restaurant just west of here on “Old West Highway.” This area has a lot of trailer courts and RV Parks full of retirees. So the only people we saw at the restaurant that were under 50 were the waitresses.

The number of manufactured housing units and trailers around here is amazing; I wonder how many of the people around here are year-around residents. Apache Junction is about 30 miles E of Phoenix and about the point where the housing density begins to thin-out. The Superstition Mountains are just a few miles NE of here, very imposing and oddly enough they have a green tint this time of the year, probably spring growth.

After supper we bought a few groceries and headed back to the trailer. The weather today was absolutely spectacular; sunny with a high of 77.