Friday, January 28, 2005

We are still at North Ranch

Hi. We will probably leave here tomorrow if it is not raining....if it does we will leave Sunday. We went into Wickenburg today and walked around the "downtown" area. The buildings date back to the late 1800's to the early 1900's. Wickenburg was named after Henry Wickenburg a gold miner who discovered the Vulture Mine where over $30 million in gold has been dug from the ground. It became a town in 1863. It still have a Western town flair. Population 10,000. Mediun temp. 66.8, average precipitation 10.77", elevation 2,100'. 1 hr to Phoenix, 1 hr to Prescott, 5 hrs to Grand Canyon, 8 hrs to Los Angeles, 4.75 hrs to Las Vegas, 5 hrs to Mexico.

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