Awake 5:15am Temp 50 Cloudy...then rain Overnight Willcox, AZ
Casual morning. I make numerous phone calls...some of them in changing our
mailing address & getting tax numbers ready to send to Jeff in Alaska.
Kathy continues her photo album organization.
Early afternoon, we both do a light 20 min workout in the campground gym,
which is fairly well equipped but the equipment is dated as are these 2
clients.
Then we drive around the town of Willcox which became established when the
railroad came thru during the mid to late 1800's. In those days, the
cowboys would drive their cattle to Willcox, round them up & load them
into the cattle cars headed for the stockyards. Today, there are a lot of
empty store fronts as we drive thru the main section of town. We notice
how well kept the old railroad depot looks thinking it's either a museum
or still an active passenger station....neither of either, the depot is
being used for the official town offices. In our touring, we walk into an
old bank building, now a book, arts & craft store + some antiques. In
talking with this store owner, he suggests that we visit the East side of
town for a different view. Sure enough, the East side is near the
interstate with modern hotels, supermarkets & many active businesses. We
visit the Stout's Cider Mill Store, family owned & operated now for 20
yrs. They grow their own apple trees(more than 20,000) & 26 varieties. We
treat ourselves to a cider cicle & Kathy gets a small jar of apple butter.
8:00pm Dinner: Chicken saute with apple, salad, and ???
Late evening, we watch a lot of commercials along with something of
substance on cable.
High temp today=62 Lights out: 10:51pm
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