Shilo Inn Yuma Hotel

... many of the snowbirds have arrived yet. Saw a small herd of wild burros on the way outside of Q'zite. They were the first wildlife we'd come upon in many- a-mile. Our site here at the Park is quite nice with lots of room to spread out and enjoy the weather here this winter.

Saturday 20 June 2009<br><br>A short driving day, we started out with lunch after laundry. Our second Road Food pick was Mrs. White&#8217;s Golden Rule Café, a modest diner with whitewashed concrete walls adorned throughout with signatures and well-wishers&#8217; notes written in black Sharpie. The food is thoroughly Southern country cookin&#8217; or soul food; take your pick. Steph had the southern fried chicken, red beans, mixed greens and lemonade. Jim ...

Today's desert run was more like what you would expect from a Jeep Commercial. While most of the trip was smooth sailing, albeit dusty ...

Spent most of the day downloading pictures from camera to computer to back up hard drive . . . so only had a very short time to get out and shoot a few . . .but the pictures I did get are worth sharing . . Jackie

Turns out there IS a fence between the US and Mexico .. . but only enough to keep cars out . . .we drove 100 miles today and saw the boarder fence in several areas. The fence to keep vehicles from Crossing the Mexican/US border Along the way there were of course the cactus flowers. Teddy bear ...

... in Quartzsite, well they have the exact same thing in Yuma only the area is paved and there are fans and the prices are cheaper. Patsy and I made a couple trips there and found all sorts of interesting things. Most enjoyable way to while away 2 or 3 hours. In my past entries I have often talked about food. Well Yuma has its share of eating establishments some better than others. One place of note is the "Brown Bag Burger Diner" They have the best hamburgers in ...

... green, not even a cactus. There are no ditches along the highway either but signs clearly indicate that the shoulders are soft, very soft - with powdery sand that never packs. Whenever someone pulls over, they leave a 6" rut so a 46,000lb motorhome would probably sink to the axle. When the Salton Sea ends, the Imperial Sand Dunes start. It's a 40 mile long stretch where ATV's rule - thousands of them! Several communities comprised of 20-30 toy hauler RV's are ...

... see if it's the switch, the fan motor, or the thermostat. If it's the switch, I will use my jimmy rigging abilities to attach a new switch to the handle bars for manual on and off. If we can't fix it then Paul will be heading to Phoenix and then home and I will be crossing over into Mexico by myself. LOL, I will never forget this trip, it's such a pain in the ass! At least we are both getting a good ...

Day 16 - 23nd May 2008. Today it was time to hitch up and roll the Castle out towards Arizona. We called ahead to a park to ensure we would have a place to be, considering it is the Memorial weekend. Filled up with gas and away we go. Rick took the wrong turn and ended up heading towards Mexico. With Mandy, Karon &amp; Earnie correcting him he decided that ok we won't go via Mexico we turned off at the next exit and found our way to the interstate 8 ...

... Seeing as we are the good Husky girls we are we never say no to beer. We got the beer sampler and pizza and enjoyed our lunch/dinner. 5 pm -11 pm We had debated staying the night in Sedona (even contemplated a free night at a time share that we were offered). But we decided to head out south to get some driving time out of the way. We were worried about staying in Phoenix because we thought it would be expensive (keep this reference in mind for ...