TIM RICHARDSON -> ED HULETT wrote:
 TR> On 05-14-08, ED HULETT said to TIM RICHARDSON:


 TR>> Instead of going back for them later, the driver assumed the
 TR> military had
 TR>> caught them and they were in custody.


 TR>> They died on the desert.


 EH>> Wow, this all happened at "Ft. Hoochie-Coochie" huh?


 TR> `On' the military reservation property of the Fort (pronounced `wha choo
 TR> ka')

It is called "Hoochie-Coochie" by those who have never been there.

 TR> Ft. Huachuca is a huge area (or at least it was back then).

It's probably still a large area.

 TR> Some of the hottest desert areas are in the Southwestern Arizona region. It
 TR> isn't any wonder that people die of desert related causes over there every
 TR> year.

I can see why that happens. I've been in the area, in the middle of August.

 TR> Thats part of the Sonoran desert....or Gila desert. I lived in the Benson and
 TR> Tombstone area of Arizona for several years, and finally lived in Yuma.

We stopped in Gila Bend on the way from Phoenix to San Diego. It was HOT.
The cafe we stopped at had a cockroach infestation so we left there and
didn't stop until we got to Yuma. It was hotter in Yuma. Luckily, we found
a cafe that was clean.

We then stopped at a "rest stop" that was in the median. There
was nothing but hot sand and a few Joshua trees. To either side of the
highway there was nothing but huge boulders. Once we got on the west side
of the mountains vegetation returned and it looked like earth again.

We stopped at a restaurant somewhere along the highway just above the
valley. Mostly just to refresh a bit after the long hot drive. We then
drove the rest of the way to my aunt and uncle's home a few blocks off of
the beach at Imperial Beach. After a week of 120 degree weather in Tempe
and the hot 130+ temps going through the Gila desert, the 86 degree weather
in Chula Vista/Imperial Beach was heaven.

Ed

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