Saturday, March 8, 2008
Foothills Lot, Yuma, AZ: Feb 20-27
Our original plan was to again meet up with the Escapee Boondockers in the desert west of Yuma, but we got an offer from our friend Lloyd to park on a lot owned by a friend of his (Tom) in the eastern Foothills section of Yuma. We couldn't say no to $10/night for full hookups, especially when we would also get to see Lloyd. We arrived just in time for the local NPR station's spring pledge drive. We actually weakened and gave them some money!The Foothills area is divvied up into hundreds & hundreds of lots large enough to hold 2 RV pads or one house (or one house and one RV pad!). Tom's lot is set up with 2 RV pads, and Lloyd offered the second pad to Bill Garmire (recently from Ajo). He then arrived with his rig after we & Bill had set up, and since there was obviously room (& hookups, just no pad) for a 3rd RV, called Tom to see if three RVs were allowed to park on a single lot. It looked pretty unusual but was apparently legal (or at least not illegal) and also lots of fun to all be parked together. We enjoyed a few evenings of games & conversation before Bill had to head to Slab City to get his mail (and prescriptions). We all got to view the lunar eclipse, although it was cloudy and we didn't really get to see totality. We also got to play bridge, and did quite well 2 out of the 3 times. We still find Yuma to be ugly & unappealing, but could stand to park here for a month or so given a reasonably priced place to park. It's warmer than many other winter areas.
# posted by Doug and Willie @ 11:46 PM 
