Man, that is the last time I let my father in law pick the spot to camp.
We left Thursday night to go camping out near Blythe and camp on BLM land. Grandpa is a old time lapidary rockhound type guy. So he thought it would be great fun for us to go out and look for some special rocks. OK...what the heck. Here is where we went.
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Looking at the picture above you will see that it is so boring there, even the dirt decided to leave. It was like camping in a giant parking lot. The wind blew all the dirt away, leaving a tightly fitted rock base. Great for parking his 5th wheel on, I guess. My kids hop out and look for something to climb or play on. There was not a tree or pile of rocks for 3/4 mile!!! (They ended up digging a hole!)
Thank god for BB Guns and Corona Bottles. I had to keep drinking fast to keep up with these little target shooters. We did em at night too. Drop a Glow Stick into the bottles and fire away. First kid to break the bottle open and free the glow stick wins. (We keep the bottles in a cardboard box, set on its side so as to not get glass all over.)
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One day we went to the "Opal Hill Mine" a rustic open pit where they wanted $15 per person to chip away at their rocks... yeah right.
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Nice......
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Finally we went on a search for a geocache. I enjoy driving my Wrangler off road. That was cool, until grandpa got his big dodge truck stuck in a gravelly wash. Uh, grandpa, 80 lbs in the rear tires is a little stiff, eh? Aired him down to 15lbs each in the rears and pulled him out with a tow strap hung on the back of my little jeep. Sun was going down.....pretty interesting for a while there. But we got him out before dark.
Found an old cave that used to have Indians living in it. That was pretty cool. It had morteros and some faint pictographs on the walls.
Stopped off in Glamis for lunch on the way home the next day and the kids had the most fun of all. Duh! I could have told em that before we left and saved a lot of driving....
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Parents...play with your kids when they're young, cuz they sure grow fast!!!