More info on Yuma

Yuma is known as the 'Lettuce Capital of the World'. All around Yuma there are plots of land, in what seems like one acre squares, in various stages of growth.





When the fields are ready for harvest, they bring the workers in a bus that is towing a trailer with porta potties. I'm not sure, but it seems that they do this so that there are not a lot of cars on the side of the road. Some of these fields are only accessable by a very narrow dirt road. The produce is wrapped and boxed right in the field. There seems to be every varity of lettuce or cabbage. And they work 7 days a week! We have watched this for the past 2 weeks. It's been fun trying to guess which fields are really for harvest!!

Another intersting thing to see in Yuma is called the 'Ocean to Ocean Highway Bridge'. This bridge was completed in 1915 and provided a continuous automobile route across the United States.



Here you see the railroad portion of the bridge and just behind it is the road. Before the bridge was completed there was a ferry that ran accross the Colorado River.

We have enjoyed our stay in Yuma. Tomorrow we will start getting ready to move to Quartzsite on Thursday.