This Monday morning meant breaking camp after 6 wonderful days in the desert near Tombstone. Our space 64 was a lucky break as it is exceptionally spacious and back right up on the desert filled with so many birds and, as we discovered this morning deer. These spaces are usually reserved on a monthly basis and after our stay we are flirting with a stay next year that is much longer. We watched and identified many birds from our window over the dining table thanks to our neighbor's feeder. Quail, cardinals, many types of sparrows and finches as well as wrens and others we had not been able to ID. This morning as we were hooking up, 4 deer came along the bank behind our space. Our neighbor had mentioned that the family who had been in Space 64 for several months before us had been putting apples out for the critters. So I couldn't resist and put some apple slices on the bank for them. I noticed that one of them had been badly injured at one time and her lower jaw was displaced to the side and her tongue was hanging out in the front so browsing must be difficult. I fed the others since they quickly cleaned up the apples and the little injured one hung around after they left so was able to give her time to eat some apple slices. I fear life is not going to be kind to this little one with this injury. She is the one in the back. The white you see is actually the bottom or most forward aspect of the lower jaw. She looks from her weight to be managing to get food.
We moved on with a several hour drive to Yuma and for a moment crossed through California in the area were Arizona, Cali and Mexico all come close together. Again we are struck by the number of RV parks and the park we moved into this afternoon is again full of license plates from any number of states to include just some of them, Alaska, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Illinois, Michigan, Nevada, Colorado, and, of course, California and that was just in the two rows next to us in the park. We immediately noticed a terribly damaged big RV and soon learned that last Tuesday a couple had a propane explosion which terribly burned the retired Pastor, spared his wife and two dogs. He had been trying to light his propane furnace about 3:00 am not realizing his newly filled tanks had been leaking into his RV. Somehow his propane sensor did not alert them that they had the leak and go off to tell them to leave the area. He, tragically, died from the 85% burns on his body from the explosion. The explosion did not burn the rest of the RV but completely destroyed it and badly damaged their car parked next to it.
There was an article on an RV Safety Forum reminding all to double check their sensors and noting that they should be totally replaced about every 5 years. I am sure there will be many investigations and suits following this terrible accident. Many sensors must be working with all the RVs on the road since this is a rare occurrence.
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