GREAT BALLS OF FIRE

Apr 19/10

Two nights before we left the Palm Creek RV resort, there was an arson fire in the RV storage area and 4 RV’s were destroyed and a couple others had fire damage.  We heard the sirens in the night and loud popping and booming noises that were tires, gas tanks and propane tanks exploding.  I thought it might be gun fire (active imagination at 3 a.m.) but we heard the true story from other residents the next day.  Here are some photos of the remains:

We drove to Benson as planned and settled in at the Butterfield RV park near the downtown core.  The park has an observatory on site which is free to guests and we had a night sky viewing that was great.  The fellow who did the presentation is a retired military and commercial airline pilot who has been staying in the park since last fall.  We saw Sirius (brightest star in our sky), a nebula (debris from a star that exploded), Betelgeuse and Rigel (two points of the Orion constellation), the sword of Orion, three galaxies outside ours, the moon, Mars and Saturn.  It was amazing to see the rings of Saturn although our view showed the rings in a vertical not horizontal position.  It’s big out there.