Since we couldn’t find a park with a campsite we found a winery through Harvest Host where we proved that Friday the 13th is a bad luck day. First I made John go on a hike - he calls them ‘Kill John’ hikes then we headed to the winery.
The Hofmann Winery is a very small operation that bottles only about 500 cases a year. Charles has only been making wine for about four years, has about 1000 vines and a small fruit orchard. He had us park in this large empty area near some of his vines. This is Arizona desert meaning sandy soil and it rained yesterday. The perfect situation for an RV disaster. We are towing the Jeep and making a sharp turn in soft sand so that the wheels of the Jeep do not track but turn sideways and pull the RV down, down, down into the soft sand until we are STUCK! John was NOT happy to say the least. But, once we unhitched the Jeep, pushed some sand back into the tracks and backed up the RV a short distance, John was able to get a roaring start and drove right out of that hole.
We almost headed home right then but gladly we stayed. Charles had us tasting every one of his German wines, whites and reds, we bought a case and the next morning he showed us his whole operation. We turned a possible disaster into a nice evening with some decent wine.
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