WE ARE IN SNOWBIRD COUNTRY

Mar 13/10

On March 9, we drove to Quartzsite as planned and stayed there for 3 nights.  It is a very small town in the middle of the desert except for the hundreds of RV’s camped in RV parks in the town and out in the desert with no services.  The thing to do there is run ATV’s everywhere, go rock hounding in the mountains and spend time at the flea market that sells everything from hand tools to kitchen gadgets to T-shirts to RV supplies to jewellery.  We checked it out one afternoon and determined that it is just one big garage sale.

We drove 80 miles to Yuma one day to check out the RV parks there and found one called Del Pueblo Resort that is very nice.  We made a reservation for March 12 and headed out on Friday morning.  We’d spent Thursday cleaning up the rig and had it all spiffy for the trek down the road.  

GOOD JOB - WELL DONE

The skies were clear, the sun was shining and it was warm when we arrived—78 F (26 C).  This is the weather that we’ve been looking forward to since we started this journey.

We have a nice pull-through site that is 30 ft. wide and 55 ft. long so there is plenty of room.  The place is still full of snowbirds from BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario and many of the US states.  Some of them are heading out soon and we sure saw a lot more heading north on US 95 when we were out and about.

Yuma is an agricultural area and we bought fresh lemons, grapefruit, dates and pecans plus the usual garden vegetables at a roadside vendor.  The fruit was cheap—6 citrus fruits of any size for $2 and avocadoes were 6 for $1.  At Albertsons we purchased fresh boneless and skinless chicken breasts for $1.99 per pound and we are paying $0.76 CAN per litre for diesel (cost includes the exchange rate).  What’s not to like about that?

We’ve paid for a week here and have internet access in the trailer again so we’ll be able to post to the blog more often.  This is the RV dream life.  

OUR SITE AT DEL PUEBLO RV PARK