{"id":1472,"date":"2016-04-03T03:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T03:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/?page_id=1472"},"modified":"2017-07-11T23:38:37","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T23:38:37","slug":"the-end-and-a-beginning","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/can-you-spell-rv\/arizona-adventures-2015-2016\/the-end-and-a-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"The End – And a Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"

4\/1\/2016<\/p>\n

Monday (3\/28)\u00a0we had our last day for the season as Volunteers at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument.\u00a0 It was a bitter-sweet day as we said \u201cfarewell\u201d to all of the new friends we made over the last four months.\u00a0 After the park closed we finished up at our trailer and pulled it out of the Volunteers Compound and into the RV section of the main parking lot \u2013 that way we had the whole parking lot to maneuver the truck & trailer!\u00a0 Not a scratch!<\/p>\n

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The last few days at the park have been beautiful and exciting.\u00a0 There has been a mated pair of Great Horned Owls since the roof was erected over the Great House (actually, successive pairs \u2013 they live a long time, but not THAT long!)\u00a0 \u201cShe\u201d has been sitting on the nest the past several weeks, but Saturday she was off the nest for a while, and Sunday when she was off the nest we saw a fuzzy white head , two eyes, and a beak! We have seen two owlets for sure, and someone said they thought there might be a third in the nest!\u00a0 So great excitement at the Ruins as everyone became \u201cgrandparents\u201d!<\/p>\n

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Many cactus and trees are also in bloom.<\/p>\n

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We started off Tuesday morning on the first leg of our April Adventure.\u00a0\u00a0 We stopped at the Bill Williams NWR and drove almost two miles back an \u201cunimproved\u201d road (read \u201crocks, gravel, and sand that was graded once upon a time\u201d) until we found a spot wide enough for the truck & trailer.\u00a0 Then we hiked the remaining mile and a half to the \u201cparking area\u201d.\u00a0 It was beautiful scenery, but it was afternoon so we didn\u2019t see much wildlife.<\/p>\n

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Since we were close to a couple Arizona State Parks, we stopped at one to check availability for an overnight site \u2013 yes, they had plenty of sites available \u2013 but they were not \u201cinexpensive\u201d.\u00a0 We traveled on to a Bureau of Land Management property that is $FREE and we are not right up against anybody!\u00a0 THIS is why we put in the solar panels!<\/p>\n

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4\/1\/2016 Monday (3\/28)\u00a0we had our last day for the season as Volunteers at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument.\u00a0 It was a bitter-sweet day as we said \u201cfarewell\u201d to all of the new friends we made over the last four months.\u00a0 After the park closed we finished up at our trailer and pulled it out of … Continue reading The End – And a Beginning<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1550,"menu_order":50,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1472","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1472"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2608,"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1472\/revisions\/2608"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}