Wickenburg

Yesterday we traveled into Wickenburg - breakfast out, grocery shopping, general merchant store, fill up truck.  We decided to go to the Desert Caballeros Western Museum, a museum that was touted as a 'really great museum on history of west".  Funny how one person views something and you see something totally different.  Lots of money in this town.  At one time there were over 14 dude ranches functioning and today there are 3 left, one of them owned by Merv Griffin.  We were asked by a young man who was also visiting the museum if the sculpturer - Remington, was the same as the gunsmith, Remington.  After explaining that two different men, he informed us he and his roommate were visiting from Sweden and he didn't see any verbiage about what they were looking at or what they were seeing.  They looked disappointed, wanted to see more of the west.  This museum is a collection of one man's  hobby of collecting stuff from a ranch as well as paintings and sculptures from various other people who contributed to the museum.  The paintings were amazing - most of red rock formations, horses and cattlemen, Indians.

One thing I did learn - every year in Wickenbug there is the Desert Caballeros Ride which is a 100 mile route that people who pay big money can do, and the 67th annual ride was just done 10 days prior to us being there.  No more than 240 people can do this ride, on horseback, sleeping out of doors, just being a cowboy/girl for 5 days, cooking/eating meals while on the ride, etc.  Sounds like fun but not for the price.