03-29-10

Suzanne and Roy have been wanting to go to the Kofa so yesterday we took them to Hoodoo Well and the Hoodoo Hilton.

To get there we had to trailer their rig out to The Vicksburg exit on I-10 which is 26 miles east of Quartzsite. From there we had to go south for about 10 miles to the pipeline road. We stopped there so they could off load the Rhino, then we drove a couple of miles east to Junction 14 where we headed south over Red Rock Pass to the Hoodoo Hilton and had lunch.

Along the way we enjoyed many beautiful views.


Of course there were a lot of wild flowers for Patti to photograph. She also taught Suzanne how to use the "macro" setting on her camera. Now they are both "Macro Maniacs"
I am not complaining though because the pictures are great.
Here are some of her pictures;







We also saw some wild life.

After having lunch at the Hilton we drove down Hoodoo Wash to the Willbanks Cabin.

The hills along the way are very green.

We left Willbanks Cabin, went over Big Horne Pass and down the other side.
That is where things got strange. We crossed the wash at junction 38 and followed the trail going north when we found ourselves in a wash that got rougher and rougher. I mentioned to Patti that I thought the trail was a lot worse than it was last year but we continued following the tracks. I began to suspect that we may had taken a wrong turn when we came to a wider wash where we turned left onto it. At that point I thought that maybe we were back on the right trail. We came to a road going out of the wash to the right and followed it, eventually we got to the top of a hill. I looked around and low and behold, to our right was the "Hoodoo Hilton". We had made a complete circle. It was getting too late to go back down the wash, over Big Horn Pass and try to find the correct road so we decided to go back home via Red Rock Pass. We got back to Roy's car before sunset. By the time we made it back to I-10 the sun was just sinking below the horizon which, was a good thing because we had do drive west on the highway. We stopped at "Best" Mexican restaurant and got home around 8:00.
We had a great time with
"Marty's Cull-De-Sac Tours"
Our motto is
"We GET Lost For You"