Road Work

For those of you who have visited YPG before, you know we are pretty isolated, and the five-mile road off the main highway to the post entrance was in bad shape. Well, Arizona decided to replace/repave the road. I would just say repave, but they tore up the entire road! And, they didn't just tear it up in sections or have one-lane traffic. No, they TORE it up all at once and had all of us drive on the dirt/sand while they replaced it. I think everyone here was just dumbfounded that they tore it all up at once. It was so bad to drive on it, you were lucky to go 20 MPH because of the and and ruts in the dirt, and it went on for miles like this. Plus, as they were working, trucks would dart in and out to help with the work. Here, at two different points, I had to stop completely for trucks to move around. As you can see, it's definitely like driving across a desert.

Ahh, isn't this just a "beautiful" place to live?? The fence on the right is for YPG, our "gated community."

You can see where they had paved the new road and just hadn't finished it yet. Luckily, we are back up and running with a normal road now.

You can also see all of the "greenery" that grows only in the winter, as it's cool enough to do so. By summer, all of this is dead due to the fact not much of anything can survive 120+ degrees!