2025-26 Trip to the Southwest, Day 129

Day 129, Tuesday, February 24, 2026 - Gilbert Ray Campground, Tucson, AZ - 130 Miles, 4,306.4 Miles for the Trip.

53°F overnight, 65°F for my morning walk, 75°F at noon while on the road, and the high for the day was 85°F.

Lots of 2 lane roads as well as 30 miles on I 10. I arrived at Gilbert Ray around 2:00 after making a stop at a Walmart in Coolidge for gas ($2.99) and a few supplies. I better eat a lot out of the freezer; it is full. 

No one at the entrance station, so I drove to the water & dump area to take on water (the sites are all electric only) then headed to my site. I've stayed in this site before as well as a couple of others. I should have taken one of the ones below the first cross road of the "H" shaped A section of the campground since it saves driving the entire loop, but I grabbed the wrong one. 

I'm in site 56, an Electric only site on desert sand not too far from the bathrooms. No showers & $35.12 per night for 4 nights. It needed 1 1/2" side to side & 1/2" rise on the tongue to level. As soon as I finished leveling the trailer I fired up the AC for the first time in a long while. 85°F outside & 80°F in the trailer. I put out the hummingbird feeder on a branch that someone left wedged in some rocks. After leveling I put down one of my plastic mats to try to keep the sand out of the trailer.

Site 56

After setting up I sat outside in the shade. It took about 15 minutes for a Verdin to find the hummingbird feeder, and another 30 for the first hummingbird. I'm reading Dana Stabenow's A Taint In The Blood. A bit of a pain because it isn't available as a Kindle book so I have to read it on my phone or the iPad, one too small and the other too big. 

AT&T is showing 71.56Mbps down & 36.65Mbps up so I didn't bother to check either Verizon or Starlink.

Dinner was a chicken burger & a salad.

Until Next Time -