December 28/10 Algodones, Mexico

This is talked about security wall along the US?Mexico border.

December 27/10 Gardens and Date Palm groves

Hundreds of acres of different kinds of vegetables.  Migrant workers from Mexico pick every day.  We went to a date palm orchard.  Had date shakes.  YUMMY.

December 27, Yuma Army proving grounds

These were just a few of the old army machinery we seen.

Road to Castle Down Mine

These are wild donkeys.  Always looking for hand outs, preferraly carrots!!  The Teddy Bear Cholla, an Ocotella bloom and a 40 ft Saguaro were just some of the catcus we saw this day.

December 25/10 Christmas Tree and Christmas dinner

Our Christmas tree, it may be small but at least it was green and not a palm tree. Thanks, Kim
That is Ray at our Christmas dinner at our table

It's windy today.

It definately is windy today.  It was warm +71F but sure never felt that warm

Touring the country side

This is a beautiful catcus nursary. Plants for sale, YES,  Ray says NO.

Christmas Brunch

I have discovered a new game, shuffle board.  Great game.  That's our lunch in the boiling pot.  Omlettes. Find a zip lock bag and fill it with eggs and what ever and boil it till cooked.  Wow!! No dishes to wash.  Ray after lunch and doing the gift exchange, Chinese style.  What a lot of fun.  Ray got a 33Ft tape measure.  Now there is no excuse.

December 21,2010 First sun rise

Ray took this beautiful sun rise.  5:35AM  He knew I would probably never get it at this time of day.

Toys for tots

The Marines came to pick up the toys that were donated by the park residents, later we all have a great lunch.

Western Sands, Yuma, AZ

This our lot #87  Twice the size lot, even enough room to park the truck.

A wonderful day!!

You can see by the temperature it is wonderful day.  Ray decsided to clean the RV before we left Arizona Sands.  This the day we moved to Western Sands, a much better park.

A trip to old town Yuma

A front yard of Cactus Giant Saguaro.  Probably 40 feet tall... The crops are acres & acres in size.  All kinds of vegetables.  We went to the Yuma AT ( Quartermasters museum)  Lots or orange and grapefruit trees there.    YUMMMM

Catching a few rays

December 19th.  The sun was at high noon and was it ever hot.  +76F  I should be brown soon.

December 19/10 Christmas Parade

This is a Christmas parada Arizona style.  There were about 20 golf carts, a couple of cars, motorized scooters and Santa of course, all decked out.  There was another one at night with all the lights just a flashing.

December 8/10  Had to stop in Needles, Ca for a night.  We had major problems with the RV.  So we stayed at Marina RV Resort for the night.  In walking around the park we came accross a grapefruit tree.  The owner gave us some of the fruit. Wow  were they ever good.

December 7/10  Went to see the new bridge over the Hoover Dam  We walked over the bridge called the Mike O'Callaghan/Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge. Pat Tillman was killed in Afganistan in 2002.  Mike O"Callaghan was the design engineer of the bridge.  It is 1920 feet long and 975 Ft above the water.  We walked from Nevada to Arizona on the sidewalk.  Spectacular!!! 

December 6/10  We stopped in Vegus for a few days.  Finally some HOT weather.  Plus 69F.  Went NFR .  The bulls seemed to win every night.  Met people from Lacombe& Stettler  a real Redneck!!

December 5/10  Just outside Ogden, Utah,  an orange  grove.  Stoping at St. George, Utah we saw our first largecatcus. 

December 4/10  We came across a Budwiser brewery for all our beer lovers in Idaho.    Also the dreaded Monida Pas was not as bad as we were lead to believe.

December 3/10  We are crossing the border into Montana.  And there is an abundance of snow and traffic.

We had some observers.

They were a little concerned about the disturbance in their neighbourhood, but stayed to watch us.

We had to do a little diggin" out before we could leave Pincher. 

Arizona Holiday

Finally, I have time to start my journal.  We had a long and uneventful trip down to Yuma.  It took us 12 days to reach our destination.  Of course that included several stops along the wait to visit family.