Yuma Lakes

I promised you pictures of Yuma Lakes RV Park.

These figures welcome you to the park. Can you guess why I chose this picture?

This is the courtyard between the pool and the clubhouse.


This is where we are parked until January 15th.

This is a very nice, friendly park. There is always something going on. We have taken aerobics classes, played bingo and Ed has played in a putting contest.

The weather has been good. It gets cold at nite, in the 40's, but has warmed up to the low 70's during the day.

We may be back this way later. Our chalk plans for now are to hang around Arizona and New Mexico. We have a rally in February in Casa Grande, Arizona and then another rally in April in Alburquerque,New Mexico. I think after that we will start up to Washington State. But everything is subject to change!!

Yuma

We have been in Yuma for 5 days now. We have been busy taking care of chores around the motorhome. Since we had the interior done in Florida, our outside compartment lights have not worked. We finally took the cover where the switches are and discovered that they had not plug in that switch. Job done and off the to do list! We have also been waxing and section of the motorhome each day. Only one side to go!

Of course, we are leaving time each day for some play. Ed joined in a putting contest here at the park and we have been taking aerobics classes and playing bingo. Will get some pictures on the blog soon.

We are learning our way around the Yuma area. Tonight we realized just how close we are to the Yuma Army Proving Grounds. At first we thought we were having earthquakes, but after searching the Internet for seismic activity in the area, we remembered the proving grounds! Sure was loud and the motorhome did shake a bit!!

Until next time....

Move to Yuma, Arizona

We left Bakersfield on Tuesday morning and made a stop in Sylmar, California for new house batteries. The batteries we had were the original and they really weren't holding a good charge anymore. With the boondocking (camping without hockups)we will be doing in Quartzsite later in January, we wanted to make sure we had good batteries. Son in law, Jason, used to work for Battery Power in Sylmar so he called ahead for us and got us a good deal. Thanks, Jason!

After that chore was completed, we moved on and stopped for the night at Casino Morongo just before Palm Springs in California. New batteries worked great!! Yesterday we left Casino Morongo and drove the rest of the way to Yuma. Last night we stayed at the Escapee park here in Yuma. They were full so we ended up in the boondock area for the night. We were talking with the people next to us and realized that we had also met them when we were at "The Ranch" escapee park in Lakewood, NM. Enjoyed visiting with them again. That's what this lifestyle is about!

We moved this morning to the Yuma Lakes RV park. It's also part of the Colorado River Adventures group of campgrounds which we belong to. We will be here until the 15th of January, then we will move to Quartzsite and join the others who are part of our fulltime class of 2008.

Looking forward to exploring this area. Will post pictures along the way.

Happy Birthday to my son Terry who turns 35 years old today. He is getting older and I seem to be getting younger!! Ha!!