We were up extra early yesterday as we had to go back to standard time in Arizona and we lost an hour. It's 11:45 here and 12::45 at home. Arizona doesn't change and neither does Mexico so we're good to go. We stayed at the Day's Inn.
Pretty quiet at this time in the morning.
Not pretty country here in this part of California.
Just a whole lot of creosote bush.
The observatory. We see them all over the United States as we ttravel.Maybe they're looking for aliens..😁
On the connector before we hit I 40.
A few mountains in the distance to break up the monotonous drive. Huge amount of truck traffic.
We head east to I 40.
In Needles Ca we had to top up the tank to make it Parker Az. Almost $7 dollars a gallon for crappy highways.
South on 95 to Vidal Junction. The Christmas ribbon candy highway. Some of the dips are so deep the cars disappear!
Straight as an arrow.
Vidal Junction. Coming from Arizona you get stopped in an agricultural inspection. We ate lunch and headed east to Parker.
The road sign to everywhere.
The bridge over the Colorado River coming into Parker.
In Arizona $3.68. We did pay almost $5.00 a gallon in Washington.
Between Parker and Quartzite we had an interesting experience. A police car was coming down the middle of the road with it's siren on, lights flashing and weaving back and forth so we moved over a bit. Right behind it another police type vehicle doing the same thing. What the hell! We thought there was a huge accident with bodies all over the road but no.....a huge over sized piece of machinery on a truck. What a fiasco. All they had to do was have a pilot car out front saying " over sized load" and maybe a vehicle with flashing lights before it and everyone would know what was happening. Hugely unsafe.
Quartzite...the boondocking area. We stayed for 10 days back in March of 2009 and once was enough for us.
See all those RV's out there. Also a lot of really poor people in all sorts of rigs and even cars camp here.
South to Yuma and the desert is green. Even the ocotillo bushes are green but not flowering yet.
Coming into Yuma and the cotton is being baled. So much agriculture here. Vegetables, hay and even cotton. You can see the big piles that look like cement but they are actually cotton.
Lots of bales.
Hay crop.
I think that's Kale. Not on our list of vegetables!
Palm trees that look like truffula trees....from the "Lorax."
Beautiful soil and the rows are set with a laser so they are perfectly straight.
We rolled into the Ramada in Yuma around 3:30 and we were both pretty much done. Three long days and now a couple of days rest before we head to Frank and Sandi's in Mesa for a visit.
Too tired to go to the restaurant that is in house so I ordered mango chicken curry with rice and naan and we split it for dinner. Plenty for two and delicious.
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