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Southwest Road Trip

This is another December road trip. Last year, I went as far as Albuquerque before being sent home on a plane. This year, I got as far as Amarillo, Texas.

I think this is somewhere in Arizona.	This is the hobo statue in Buckeye, Arizona.		I think these are veal feeding pens on the side of the road. This is in Arizona.	This is a giant bale of cotton. We were looking for the giant baby but it appears to be no more.
	This is a Catholic Church in downtown Phoenix.		These are statues of naked people next to the Catholic churc h.
		This is the grasshopper bridge. The end of the bridge leads to a children's park. In Arizona, parks are full of sand, not grass.
This is the mystery castle, a strange building outside of Phoenix.	The house was built by a man who left his wife and daughter. He claimed to have built the house for his daughte.r The wife and daughter didn't know anything about the house until he died.	Turns out the builder had tubur culosis which he didn't want to give to his wife and daughter. That's why he left. But he didn't tell them why he left. They didn't find out until after his death.	Somehow, we saw lots of dummies like this one around Arizona.
The beds were on rollers so they could be slid away until the wall.
	This is a painting of the daughter who still lives in the house.	This is one of the many fireplaces.	This is one of the rolling beds.
			The house has a lot of lace.
This is the gas stove area.				This is the wishing well. A dumbwaiter runs down the well to the bar below.