The Travels of the Agnew Family

Bye west coast, hello desert. I was surprised to see how mountainous it was between San Diego and Yuma. Don't know why but for some reason I thought it was flatter --- guess I need to study my geography a bit more. Being mountainous it was a pretty drive some of which we got to enjoy at a slower speed --- put road construction reducing the highway down to one lane and a wide, large load together driving uphill in the mountains. After the mountains we came across an area where there were great stacks of baled hay on the sides of the fields --- hard to image growing hay in the desert. This area has access to water thus canals thus irrigation thus hay fields. It was actually nice to see fields of green and red (maybe red leaf lettuce). After the irrigated area came the Imperial sand dunes. When I watch the dune buggies roaring around the sand dunes I always want to buy / rent one and zoom around too. Not far from the sand dunes is Yuma, our destination. The main reason for stopping in Yuma is to go the the Arizona market so we picked an RV park east of town near the market. This area is very interesting as it is 90 percent RV park. Kinda of puts a different perspective on things. We spent a month in Yuma five years ago so have seen all the sights.


We stopped at a rest area and took a few photos.