Mesa

We spent the weekend of Feb. 18-20 in Mesa, staying at John's Mom's RV park and spending a lot of time with John's mom. But also we spent time with our friends from CO who were also camped in the RV park. They came over to John's mom's place and we had fun sharing rving stories and reminiscing about our past lives in Detroit. We did a lot of skiing and dinners together with this couple when we were first married and living in Detroit. Thru the years we lost touch and then reconnected (thru Facebook) a few years ago.

Monday morning we headed to Yuma and I got to put my RV driving lessons to good use - I drove! We found a BLM (Bureau of Land Management) campground but no one was manning the check-in booth since it was Presidents Day so we just parked in a spot out in the desert. Tuesday morning we found out we had paid for a day-use area at the self check-in which is not where we parked and if we wanted to stay where we were, we had to pay an additional fee. Live and learn!

Today we also explored the hills around us in the Jeep, needing to gear down to go up and down the hills! We also found out that the town of Yuma is at the narrowest part of the Colorado River so almost all routes west came thru here -- gold miners, wagon trains, stagecoach runs and railroads. It was also the best place in the US to train our soldiers for WWI and WWII.