After only two weeks in Casa Grande we decided to go to Yuma, AZ for a few days with our friends Leonard and Peggy. We drove through Yuma a few years ago on our way to San Diego and from the highway the entire town looked like one hugh trailer park. So I was a bit surprised to discover that I actually liked it. It does have a nice shopping area but it is not as developed as Phoenix or Casa Grande. It was more like the Arizona I knew 20 years ago when we first started coming here.
We stayed on our friends, the Crainshaw's, lot in an area just outside of Yuma called the Foothills. The weather was perfect, the view of the mountains was incredible and the beautiful sunsets are an everyday occurance. We saw the dam, the sand dunes, the border fence and acres of farm land. We stopped at the Imperial Date Company for a date shake, delicious! Did you know that there are male and female date trees? But the big shock, throughout the desert there are hundreds of motorhomes just parked along the way, dry camping. The people stay there for weeks or months, without electricity, water or sewer. They have trucks that come by and pump out the sewer and refill the water tanks and many have large solar panels to generate some power. NO thank you!
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