Glenn and I did a last minute ride on Saturday to Why, AZ. You may ask why go to Why. No reason, there is not much there but it was a good excuse for a ride. We started at 9 am and were home by 4:10 pm after a 370 mile ride. Most of the day was in the 50’s, but we had 70s for a period of time. Nice!
We took old HWY 80 to Gila Bend. There are a lot of cattle yards and farms along the 80. When we passed the cattle yards we experienced that overpowering smell of money, but we survived.
Here are some of the farms in the area
We stopped at the Gillespie Bridge. Shot of the western entrance.
This picture is what I believe, are White Heron at the Bridge, but they could be Roseate Spoonbill.
We stopped for gas in Ajo and were looking for a place to eat. We met an interesting, unique character at the Ajo gas station. He was from West Virginia and wintering in Ajo. He drives this old beat up 4x4 and he asked me to move his steering back and forth so he could climb under the truck to check his front suspension. After checking it out, he said everything looked fine, but it didn’t feel right. He then started to fill up the truck with gas and we asked him if there was a good place to eat in town. At first he said no, but as he started to think about it he gave us 2 places. One was a burger shop and one was a place he referred to as a hippie joint. Both Glenn and I looked at each other and said the” Hippie joint it is”.
We thanked him and walked away, but Glenn noticed that as he was putting gas in the top of the tank, it was leaking out the bottom of the tank. Glenn informs him of this issue and he climbs under the truck again, and states that he has two leaks. He jumps up and states he has to get his truck home right away, climbs into the cab and speeds off.
We then head to the Hippie place which is officially called the Desert Rain Café. There was a sign out front that said Best Burgers. We go in and the place and is it little eclectic and the building across the street had murals painted on them. We sit down and get the menu and Glenn is excited that he was going to get a burger for lunch after reading the sign out front. Well, the menu had no burgers. I told Glenn, they we either high when they did the menu or high when they put the sign out front. We confronted the waitress and she looked at us very strange and said of course we have burgers. We told her that they are not on our menus and she said we must have and old menus. We asked for new menus and she said no we don’t have the new menus, but she assured us we could order a Burger. We laughed about this all thru lunch.
I had the Red Chili stew with salad and Agave lemonade and of course, she was not lying Glenn had the burger. The food was very good.
Town square Ajo
As you can see Why, AZ is quite a small place.
Well another great ride in the books and my parting shot of Glenn behind me on the way home.
