The Silverado Ranch is 40 acres located about nine miles
west of Douglas, AZ owned by Belle Starr utilizing the property as a
campground/boondocking site. All she
asks is if you stay you either help out with some of the ranch chores or make a
donation for your stay. She has a few
sites with 20 amp service, water and electric.
Lots of dreams for the site and even lots of potential but Miss Starr
(not the original Belle Starr) is 85 years old, confined to a wheel chair with
MS and very little money to make the necessary improvements.
We
stopped here last year for a couple days, Cherri groomed one of her dogs and I
setup her wifi and fixed a couple garden hoses. This year when we arrived she
greeted us on her motorized wheel chair and even remembered us telling me she
has computer problems right away.
After setting in I went up to the
house and took a look at Miss Belle's computer. Apparently she just had it
replaced after in "crashed". Not sure what happened then but whoever
she took it to gave her a new "old" Dell computer just installing her
old drive as a second hard drive. No virus protection was installed and loaded
with so called performance software that not only slows down your computer but
is loaded with spyware. After a couple hours I had installed Avast software
which is excellent virus protection and they have a free version which I have
been using on all my computers for about seven years now. I highly recommend
it. Junk software removed, virus protection enabled and also some anti spyware
called Super Anti Spyware both anti spyware and virus set to scan we will see
how bad it is in the morning.
The next morning I was pleasantly
surprised to find out that except for quite a bit spyeware it did not have any
viruses so after a little more cleanup we spent the rest of the day relaxing in
the Arizona Sun.
My other accomplishment here was installing
a FM antenna on the trailer. The installed antenna is just an internal antenna
which is only good if you are in town. I picked up a new antenna some time ago
so I was happy to finally get it installed.
A few pictures of the Silverado Ranch...
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