2012 Road Trips in Review (Part Two)
JULY: I don't know why we picked a road trip to Mobile and Gila Bend in the dead of summer, but we did. We didn't want to go far and both places are nearby. We first stopped at the trailer park which was the subject of two stories in our Abandoned Places: Abandoned Memories book. It had been a couple of years since I have seen the place and it was so different. The last time there were three trailers standing and swing set with a slide. This time there was one shell of a trailer standing and a huge pile or rubble. We did manage to take lots of pictures but it was too hot to sift through the mess and see if there were anything worth taking. After the trailer park, we went back to the burnt down house. The house was still there but less of it was standing. The barn in the back looked even more demolished. The walls had fallen and were lying on the ground. All that was left was the skeletal remains. Of course we couldn't go to Gila Bend without drop