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Yuma Slideshow
Yuma
Travel Blogs from Yuma, United States
Yuma - The Fort, The Prison and Downtown
... sprawled across 15 miles, laced with shifting back channels and pockets of quicksand. But at the place that would become Yuma, two outcroppings of granite squeezed the river into a narrower channel. The spot just downstream was the safest ...
Yuma Balloon Festival
We did it!!!!! We made it to downtown Yuma by 7 a.m. this morning to view the Balloon Ascensions that started at 7:15 a.m. It was something to see. We were able to walk around on the field among the participants. It was chilly there this morning, but warm ...
Day 38
On the road at 8:45 am...wow we are getting to be early birds. The weather was bad today really strong winds...sand storms in areas on the interstate. Really cool temperatures also, a lot different than the last few days. Arrived ...
The drive North through the Arizona Sunset
Larry and I chased the golden light of sunset trying to get back to my favorite cactus along highway 95 just South of Quartzite Arizona and the sun went down behind the mountains just minutes before we got there. . . . but the mountains and sky ...
doubles
yuma was boring. got ripped off on a "mini blizzard" from dairy queen because of their deceptive advertisements. left there on a really nice highway that went through some dead towns on the way to ...
Yuma, Arizona
We have arrived in Yuma at 3:30 p.m. The Yuma Balloon Festival begins tomorrow morning, with the first launch at 7:00 a.m. and who thinks we will be there for the first launch? On Saturday and Sunday they launch at 6:00 a.m. We decided we wanted to view ...
Yuma - Friend time!
... ;where our friends were staying. We were looking for late-day space - at a premium at this time of year in Yuma - and were successful. The space is very basic but we were busy every day so that didn't really matter. We had ...
Pilot Knob
... Quartzsite (where they have a gargantuan flea market of hundreds of stalls), the Parker Dam (one of the largest in the States), American-Indian petroglyphs and the Nellie E. Saloon in the desert (entirely powered by solar). We visited Lake Havasu City ...
Yuma Camping
We ended up at the KOA campground in Yuma Colorado. This is a great place to stop for sure, very clean and friendly. The WIFI access required you to be in the clubhouse which was a bother....but we managed. We thought that this stay might be a few days, ...
Yuma, December 3, 2009
The two months we've already spent here in Yuma have just flown by. When you wake up to blue skies every day, it's takes a bit to remember that lots of Northerners are in the middle of winter. I just think back to those many, many gray skies in Cleveland ...
Double Rainbow
Our day started with our usual walk (well usual for Diane and Joan) of about 4 miles, but today we (Don included) took a new route - part of which was through the wash at the end of our street. There was lots of quad traffic.The walking was ...
We are finally here!!!
... on where we are and driving conditions. So I decided to give them a test. The question was this: What states have we gone thru today, and the first person to get it right would win a prize. Well my sister Doreen was quick to ...
Being a tourist again
... our vegetables and fruits if it weren't for them. The farms are still short of workers. The unemployment rate in Yuma is 27%, double the national average, but still the unemployed won't take those jobs. Late in the afternoon ...
Day 16 - Yuma Arizona
... sand shifting and gee it became a reality, Blowing across the road as we drove through the sand dunes was sand. We arrived at Yuma about 3.5 hours after leaving San Diego and had a couple of attempts to find the RV park. It didn't help that the address ...
Into Arizona
... intensive process to produce dates. Second stop - Salton Sea. One of the largest saltwater lakes in the world, way below sea level. Third stop - Slab City, but we didn't actually stop there Fourth stop - Yuma ARIZONA -- ...
Heading East Again - El Cajon CA to Yuma AZ
... Centro, we note the number of RV units camped in this area. If we were only a few years younger....... Arriving in Yuma we are treated to yet another wonderful sunset. The reflection from the clouds to the west make it particularly ...
stayed for 3 weeks
Hello everyone, thought I had better get the blog updated. We went to Yuma Az and got a spot in a campground and took care of all the things that had to be done to the motor home. Change the oil and washed and waxed it. Bonnie made ...
Last days in Yuma
Sunday we went to IHOP for breaksfast, then decided to view the rest of the Flea Market. Monday was clean up day and we started to close up the trailers.We than took a break and went to Cocopa Casino, Lanny came out with ...
Day Two - Fast and Furious to Yuma
... for the ride through Yuma and the final climb/descent through Telegraph Pass. By the time we reached the outskirts of Yuma (at 100 miles), everyone was hurting pretty bad and it was mutually agreed that we would stop at the bottom of the ...
PACKING FOR MY TRIP TO MONTANA
SO TODAY I VISITED THE WEBSITE OF THE AIRLINE THAT MY SISTER BOOKED MY FLIGHT ON AllegiantAir. ALL OTHER AIRLINES CHARGE 25..00 AT LEAST FOR THE FIRST BAG, SO I HAD DECIDED TO ONLY CARRY A CARRY ON, EVEN THOUGH I WAS SWEATING IT, I DID IT.....YES, FIRST ...
Yuma,day2
... are noisy so I got her to make an appointment for tomorrow hopefully it's not to bad. found this very interesting Internet cafe in yuma the computer is free to use for customers hope there is a few more along the way. We are leaving here Tues. and ...
BUDGET TRAVEL TIPS
WELL FELLOW TRAVELLERS, WE ARE NOW SETTLED FOR A MONTH IN A RV PARK IN YUMA, ARIZONA TO JUST SIT STILL, RELAX AND ENJOY THE LUXURIES OF A PARK SETTING BEFORE WE HEAD BACK OUT INTO THE DESERT FOR MORE BUDGET TRAVEL. ALTHOUGH, THE MONTHLY RATE HERE IS ...
Civil War Tour Day 41
Today was a travel day from Nashville, TN to Parkers Crossroads, TN. The weather was hot and humid. An event that we have experienced since we were in Sevierville, is the Cicadas. These creatures are very loud and only emerge every 13 years ...
From California to Arizona
... by monks, singing and dancing by Native American walkers. There are many amazing encounters and lessons: In Fort Yuma, AZ, they visited a hospital where Native American people have been used as experimental specimens for drugs. The ...
Rocky Beginning, Nice Ending
... . We are now in Snow Bird Country. RV people leave their northern homes and spend the winter in the more temperate states. Most winter in RV parks but many boondock- an undelineated dry camp- with no modern facilities available where they stay. No ...
Prickly humour
Saguaro cactus are the most expressive plants we have ever seen. Some of them have such human body language that we couldn't help but add a few humourous captions to the pictures. Enjoy and feel free to change the captions and we look forward to your ...