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The drive home was kind of fun, we stopped a few times and weren't in a really big hurry. On the California side of Yuma we stopped at the Imperial Sand Dunes. We got out of the truck for a few minutes but it was really hot. On the way the other day the dunes were spotted with tons of ATV's and dune buggies. There were also lots of motor homes but today we didn't see anyone other than the Border Patrol trucks out there. Closed during the week maybe?
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We also stopped at another place that we noticed on the drive over. It's Felicity California. It was kind of a weird experience. I don't even know how to explain it, we were saying after we were kicked out that we had just been to the Twilight Zone. I tried to look up Felicity online just now and am still a little confused about what it is. I didn't spent too much time on the website because I wanted to do this quick blog entry tonight. There's a spiral staircase, a pyramid, a church on the hill, and a couple dozen long granite slabs with engravings. We were walking around and looking at some of the engravings and were heading towards the church. There were a few cars around but we didn't see anyone. That was until this lady started yelling at us. We were pretty far away and she was shouting for us to come back and saying we can't just wander aimlessly. As we were walking to her she kept shouting at us. When we got up to her she asked for us to come inside and start the tour with a video. We said we didn't want to take a tour because of time, we had to get going. She was really unpleasant. She said it will only take 20 minutes, and we said no thanks we're just going to go. Every time we started to take a few steps to go back to truck she would say things like "what did you know about Felicity before now?", I said nothing, then she said "ok so what do you know about Felicity now?" I said again, nothing. She said "well, you took the time to pull off the highway, and took the time to walk all the way up there, and he took the time to take a few snapshot photos but you don't have the time to actually learn something?" This lady was really agitated. She said "If you don't want to learn anything you might as well leave, because looking at things and not having any idea what it is, is pretty foolish. My friend asked her what the problem was and said that if people were required to take a tour then we're sorry and didn't know. She told the lady that we didn't see any signs or an office building. The lady didn't say anything at first but as soon as we started to walk away, she started shouting about how a tour is not required, but if this is the first visit we should try to learn about it and not just wander aimlessly about. We kept walking, she even said "it's too hot out here for all of this". We got back in the truck and were like let's get the heck out of here. It felt really strange for me, I don't get in arguments with people. Not that this was an argument but it just felt really weird. Oh, at one point my friend also told the lady that she didn't need to be scolding us like we we're 12 yr old kids. The lady said "well when I looked out and saw you all the way up there looking around aimlessly (she said that about 5 times) I don't know if you are kids, that's why I had to make you come back here and ask if this is your 1st visit to Felicity" It was a Twilight Zone moment. We had some fun joking around about it afterwards, we wondered what we would do if we came home and weren't able find any records of this town on the Internet. Here's a site that I found with Google www.felicityusa.com. I'll have to look at it some more tomorrow.
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