Yuma - Days Inn

... d met in Mississippi at our campground in Columbus, stopped by for a visit. They were returning home to Ft Worth after purchasing two Rail Road cars from an estate in Sacramento.
What a unique sight. They're the rail cars that railroad repairmen used to ride on the rails to do any needed repairs. Apparently, there are quite a few clubs of enthusiasts who get together and travel on seldom used tracks, mainly in Idaho, Montana and Oregon. How neat.

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 again this afternoon.

... the day before yesterday that we saw the whole schedule. We hope that we can view them from our campsite that is 7 miles out of town.

The weather here is warm, in the high 70"s today. It is very dry here, that works good on Bonnie's sinus', but, we are getting static shocks all the time.

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 as usual ...

Saturday 20 June 2009

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

... yellow as could be with blooming Desert Marigolds lining both sides of every wash and along the mountain sides. The Desert Mistletoe ...

Saturday we took Kathy and Terry out to Imperial Dam to see what kind of living arrangements are for RVers that spend up to 7 months here camping on BLM land. We met up with Dick and Doris from our Escapee Chapter 37 group. We took a little jog to the Algondois exit when Dale thought he needed to cross the Colorado River. Needless to say, the rive is back in Yuma. We got turned around and headed toward Winterhaven and got ...

... getting ready and they were starting when I walked in. It was 6:05. Can't be late around here that is for sure. I had stopped at the bank in WalMart and picked up 300 pennies to be prepared. As it turned out, lady luck was with me this night and I came home with more than I took. Amazing! We watched some TV as I prepared the back travel logs and off to bed to get ready for tomorrow. Tuesday is Market day in old town Yuma.

... included the fire-devastated area and a home of one of their friends which was entirely gutted. It was a humbling experience to stand amongst the burnt out cars and homes of the ones unfortunate enough to be directly in the path of the fires. The news reports describing it as resembling a war zone were not embellishing. While in the resort in Desert Hot Springs, we made contact with friends from Victoria, Jean and Gord Bell. We joined them in Indio at their resort in ...

Sometimes, when I think of Tijuana, in the north-western corner of Mexico, I feel ashamed that I have never been to Kratovo, a small township in Macedonia but at the same time a world renown place with a colony of children paintings, other stupid claims and arrogant (also stupid) people, Another reason for this feeling is that I do not have much (none at all ...