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Yuma Slideshow
Yuma
Travel Blogs from Yuma, United States
A long day travelling
... Saturday traffic is a bitch on a 12 lane freeway! Scenery was spectacular travelling through the mountains between LA & Yuma. Dinner in a 50's style diner - Buffalo Burgers & Pie Ala Mode. Yuma prison tomorrow then onto Tuscon. ...
A week of visiting in Yuma
... boxes for shipping, ready to go across country to the nearest grocery. During peak production, each of nine plants in the Yuma area goes through 2 million pounds of lettuce per day. Wow! I was also impressed with the beautiful color of the various ...
Civil War Tour Day 42
... part as it is only a restaurant. After lunch, we went to the Shiloh National Military Park. By mid-February 1862, United States forces had won decisive victories in the West at Mill Springs, Ky., and Forts Henry and Donelson in Tennessee. ...
Yuma
... the road. We talked to Rocks and she said that her and Matt were pretty busy all day so we decided to waste some time in Yuma, AZ. We found a shopping center so that I could buy an e-reader. I decided to go with the Literati because it isn't to ...
Back to Yuma
Jan. 24, Westwind, Yuma Home again, home again. Big job to break camp and return. It's amazing all the stuff we have outside to make it homey!! Right down to Gord’s flag pole, who’da thought he’d ever do that. I’ve been busy with ...
Day number twelve
Lee and Laura took us around Yuma today. It is interesting to note that although they receive only a few inches of rainfall a year, this area is known as one of the largest year round vegetable, fruit, hay and grain growing areas in the ...
Day 1
It took me two-and-a-half hours to go from San Diego, California to Yuma, Arizona. WOW! What a quick hop and skip. Last time it took up like 5 hours. Then again, we were pulling a crap-load of household goods. So, I suppose it balances out. Once I ...
Exploring Around Yuma Area
Jan. 9, Yuma Continuing Scott's visit, we also did a jeep desert road trip with some other folks from the RV park, took him to Mexico, did a jet boat river tour on the Colorado River, shopped, swam & hot tubbed, golfed and hit the flea market. Scott ...
Day number eleven
... a retired Marine and works on the local military base proving grounds. Yesterday took the girls and visited the Yuma State Prison, would not have been a pleasant place to be incarcerated. Today we are going to see things that ...
Joseph's Nostalgia
We took a day trip down from Phoenix to see where Joseph was stationed for a while. We got on base and went to the PX, where we both bought shirts, lanyards, Joseph got stickers, and I got a shot glass. Afterwards, we traveled to his favorite place to ...
Dernier arrêt avant la Californie
Nous avons roulé pendant 5 hres dans le désert avant d'arriver au camping. Du terrain aride, des cactus; ce fut notre paysage pendant tout le trajet. Un p'tit tour dans la piscine, un souper vite fait (chez Mc Donald) rien d'autre à ...
Happy New Year
... , a new year has begun. Happy New Year everyone and all the best in 2012. We spent a quiet New Year's Eve at our campsite in Yuma. We had a few people over for happy hour, then Gord & I did steaks and drank champagne, followed by a campfire. We ...
January 24 - Feb 3
... the sun was shining, oh what a beautiful day. And of course another bluegrass festival to attend, just a one day one this time in Yuma. We convinced our friends to come along with us, and we think they enjoyed it. We noticed a few toes tapping in time to ...
May 22, 2012
... far west in the state as we could today; continuing west on I 10 to Case Grande we turned west onto I 8 and headed towards Yuma. The trip over I 10 through the desert was uninteresting; however, the scenery on I 8 was a little more interesting with ...
Lettuce, lettuce, lettuce
... and no defined parking spaces. It was interesting and somewhat appalling to see this. We continued on to Yuma and were pleasantly surprised. Unlike other border towns Yuma has a nice bustling atmosphere. Probably because ...
Resting Days
Wednesday headed to the Q casino, everybody made a little except for Linda again. We went to Applebee for coffee. Had Chocolate Explosion with our coffee!!!! Hmmmm. Thursday was work day, fustration day for Duane and Lanny as they tried ...
AI - En route vers Yuma, AZ
... partis d'Imperial Beach vers 10 hres étant donné que nous n'avions qu'environ 300 km à effectuer aujourd'hui. Nous sommes arrivés à Yuma, AZ vers 15 hres après avoir avancé nos horloges d'une heure. Le Cocopah Bend Gulf and RV Resort est, comme ...
Yuma Time
... and Bill. The Alberta connection is a big part of our network now. Good times both summer and winter. Before leaving Yuma we made a stop at the Arizona Market to connect with a dealer from whom we have purchased LED lights for the ...
Christmas in the Sun
December 24 -28 Westwind RV Park, Yuma, Az Wow, Xmas has come and gone. A different Xmas this year. We missed Scott, Lindsay & Wes, a first Xmas apart for all of us, but we all survived. We had a few neighbours over for Xmas Eve, BYOB and appy and ...
The Start of Holidays for Doreen and Lanny
Left San Diego for Yuma, Az on the way we decided to initiate my sister and bother- in-law to the life of gambling and retirement. We drop in to the Q Casino and register for their 55+ players club card to get their free $10.00 every ...
Saguaro National Park was amazing!
Woke up and headed to Saguaro National Park. Wow!! The scenery was wild! Huge cactus everywhere you looked in all kinds of shapes. It was hot. We went to the visitors center and then drove a 5 mile scenic loop. It was to hot to get out of the car for any ...
Blue Skys
Second day of going to the dentist. Not at all pleasant. The kind of day that friends say "I told you so" . . .about getting dental work done in Mexico . . . . but the skys were blue and the temperature mild. We took the "scenic way" back to Gus's ...
Winter destination, 2009
It was a rather tricky drive getting outside of Prescott, Az. That's a road we'll never take again in our motorhome. The road isn't something I'd recommend even if driving a car. Craig earned his stripes that day. Drove thru Quartzite; it looks the same ...
Civil War Tour day 44
As of today, we are on our own again. The last of the others in our group were gone from the RV Park by 10:30 am. We spent the morning cleaning the rig. After lunch we went out to the Parkers Crossroads Civil War Battlefield. It ...
Canada wins Gold Medal in Hockey/ Variety show
Went over to Pat and Toms place with Aime, Gina, Albert and Carol to watch the Awesome gold medal Hockey game against the American team. We sat outside on their deck cheering ( Pat and I wearing our Olympic mitts) and ...
Buying our '1st' Home
... lived full-time rv'ing. That's soon to change. We've found our permanent winter home here in Country Roads in Yuma. The past few months we've been looking at homes for sale here in our park. Found the one we can't pass ...
Mountainous desert
Going to visit my snowbird grandparents yields delicious grapefruit every morning and other fresh produce all the time. We play dominoes and swim during the day. I don't like that there is a constant patrol on the mountain tops to prevent illegal ...
Bye bye...
Today we said bye to Sarah and Anthony and drove first to Anza Borrego Park and afterwards we spent the night in ...