Sunday, January 30, 2011

Yearly trip to the Desert Bar

We met friends at the Desert Bar Saturday.  It’s a unique place and we usually end up going once a year.  It’s off of route 95 just about 4 miles outside of Parker, Arizona.  You make a right turn onto a road that immediately turns to dirt.  You drive and drive and drive and think you are never going to get there.  It’s about 5 miles on a dirt road that sometimes is a single lane.  But then you come around the last turn and you know you have finally arrived.
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You walk over a covered walkway and this is a picture of the bar.  Notice the solar panels on the roof.  This bar is completely powered by solar! It is only open from noon until sundown on Saturday and Sunday and only during the winter months. 
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They have a band that plays and the place is really packed with people.  They cook hamburgers and hotdogs and chili and chips.  They have a full bar and of course sell T-Shirts.
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Hot water tank and a cooling tower.  Water drips from the top and cools like what we used to call a swamp cooler. 
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There are sculptures all around made from horseshoes and other metals.


It was a fun day with good friends. 
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3 comments:

  1. Jim and Sandie1/30/11, 8:36 PM

    I'm hoping next year we can do the Desert Bar again. Right now we're enjoying full hook ups with long showers and TV.

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  2. Wanderin'1/30/11, 8:50 PM

    I wish we had done that again. It was so much fun. Who knows we really haven't left the area .... yet!

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  3. Anonymous1/31/11, 12:02 PM

    I wish we could have joined you but my stomach REALLY does not like that 5 mile road to the bar. If I take medicine before we go I zone out so miss most of what's happening while we are there anyway. So, I'm glad our group also gathers other places as well.

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