Rain in Yuma
The Yumans probably love this but 3 days of rain in a muddy campground is enough for me! We're moving tomorrow to Desert Paradise where the streets are paved!...the poor doggies haven't had a walk since our Monday escapade in the mud. Yuma is not at all like I expected because it is very flat and agricultural. On the road to our campground we're seeing lettuce, brussel sprouts and other assorted green crops. Today we ran into a road block where someone lost a load of lettuce that was smeared across the highway.
There are strawberry fields somewhere because there is a stand on every other corner. I was expecting sand and more sand...which we saw coming into the city in huge sand dunes. All the flat land is surrounded by low mountains, probably an ancient lake bed. And all these crops are not growing due to rain; typical monthly rain is 0.2". There are canals and irrigation ditches all over coming from the Colorado River.
Now that the rain has hopefully stopped we can do a bit of exploring. Today we drove around town to get mail and groceries. Probably drove 15 miles of streets and saw NO grocery stores. Then we got to the WalMart supercenter which was jammed...maybe it's the only grocery store in town.
Last night we enjoyed a great dinner with Renee and Tom. Renee took a spur of the moment trip with Tom to El Centro on his business and then jogged over to Yuma...just a 60 mile dinner trip to say farewell again.
New pictures are posted on the YZGuys server.. of our travels in December/January.