Yuma, AZ

My tattoo! Herb and Mary Joplin
Jack and I at Texas

Roadhouse for his birthday

The RV park in Yuma, the caretakers had a few animals and the turkeys were so cool.
There were ducks, geese turkeys, roosters and chickens.

We had a really hard time finding a place to stay in Yuma. We later heard that the valley RV parks where 98% full. We did finally find a place, not one I ever would have stopped at if I was just driving by, but it turned out just fine. Someone knew someone staying there and said it was a good place. We ended up staying for a month and met some really nice people. We met up with Herb and Mary Joplin. They were staying at the Yuma Army Proving Ground RV camp. They were there for a week while we were there and we had a really good time with them. Mary and I went shopping, we hit old ladies day (Monday morning) at Bealls Outlet. What a hoot. We got some really good buys and had a blast. We went over to Mexico and out to eat. They went out to dinner with us to celebrate Jack's 60th birthday. After they left we went back to Mexico and got our new eye glasses at 50% the U.S. cost and they were ready in 2 hours. We also picked up some of our meds and a huge discount.

Oh and I got a tattoo! There was a place in town and I saw some the work and I really liked the detail. It is on my ankle and the pic is the day after I got it so it was a little swollen.

Jack's brother Eddie and Sue came for a weekend. They brought their camper and we spent the weekend playing. Sue and I went to Mexico and the flea market. We went out to eat, Eddie likes to try and find authentic Mexican restaurants.

Benson, AZ

Cochise Stronghold
Fort Bowie

San Pedro River

We did get in some hiking and saw several beautiful sunsets. We also met up with my cousin Don again. We went out to his place and really enjoyed seeing his place and hearing about the tranformation he put it through. It is really a great place. We stayed here for about a week then moved on to Yuma AZ

Benson, AZ

On to Benson AZ where we always love to hike. Our car broke down right before we were to leave TX and we were afraid to take it to the shop and not have it ready to go when we were. We ran into problems finding places to stay this year. All the RV parks have been full, due to the

Canadian dollar being strong there are a lot of visitors here from Canada. We pulled our sick car all the way to Benson and dropped it off at the garage. It was still 4 more days until we had the car back. We walked to the Donut Shop in the morning, 3 miles round trip. Sometimes we would then walk 3 miles to lunch. Once we got the car back we went to check out the Lazy J., Jack's 30 acres of desert. Here are a couple of pics I took from the property. You can see snow on the Mtns.