Monthly Archives: March 2010
3:10 to Yuma… well, more like 2 hours even…
Today we made the 2 hour drive from Gila Bend over to Yuma where we’ll be for the next 10 days or so.
We’re here to help with the lead-in to Nick Russell’s Western Gypsy Gathering Rally that will run March 8th thru the 12th.
For the next few days, Jan and I will be going around to local businesses soliciting gifts for door prizes for the rally.
We left Gila Bend about 11am and then stopped for lunch at a rest area about an hour later. Lunch on the road is simple when you take your kitchen with you.
Mister enjoyed the trip as usual. Here he is catching some rays on the dashboard.
We pulled into the Yuma County Fairgrounds about 2 pm and Nick met us at the entrance to lead us to our temporary parking area.
It’s kind of hard to tell but there are two other rigs parked here behind us. Tom and Barb are right behind us, and Nick and Terry are at the far end.
We’ll be parked here until Sunday when we will move into our rally parking sites. Right now there is a Good Sam Club rally going on, so we have to wait until they’re done.
We’re hooked up water and 20amp electric, but no sewer connection. That means we’ll have to dump at least once while we’re here. Hopefully we can do get by with only dumping when we move on Sunday. We’ll see.
About 5:30 the six of us headed out to eat at a Chinese restaurant called, strangely enough, EAT. Turned out to be really good. I imagine we’ll go back again before we leave.
More tomorrow…
Last Day in Paradi…uh…Gila Bend…
Today is our last full day in Gila Bend, AZ.
And it was another work-around-the-coach day. And, as usual, everything took longer than I expected.
I started out trying to finish up my earlier repairs on the water bay in the rig, but, although everything is working OK, I was unable to get one of the panels back in place.
At this point I can only believe that the panel was put in place and then the coach built around it.
At least,that’s my story and I’m sticking with it.
My second task was to start going thru the bins in the basement, sorting stuff into ‘Keep” and ‘Throw Away’ piles, and then consolidating similar stuff.
I did make a start on this, but basically ran out of time. There’s always another day, or another park.
We really like this little park. It’s nice, quiet, and cheap. It’s our kind of threefer, especially the ‘cheap’ part.
And it’s pretty scenic too.
Maybe it’s not quite as nice as Voyager RV in Tucson,
But then Voyager costs over 5 times as much per day. $10 vs. $53.
One thing that seems strange to find out here in the desert is a…
Shrimp Farm!
The Desert Sweet Shrimp Company
So when we were here two years ago, we weren’t surprised to find that a local Mexican restaurant called Sofia’s.
sells a Shrimp Burrito that Jan says is to die for. So we figured that they got their great shrimp from the local shrimp farm. But when I asked I was quickly told that the shrimp farm shrimp had no taste, and they didn’t use them.
Who knew?
Tomorrow we have about a two hour drive to Yuma to get set up for the Western Gypsy Rally that starts next week. But before we leave tomorrow I want to weigh our coach at the truck scales here at the nearby truck stop.
Later…
