Thursday, December 01, 2005
Green Grass and Vegetables
The road from Quartzsite to Yuma is through the desert — we passed some BLM areas where
you can camp and then we drove through a US military proving ground ... not sure what that is
but there was lots of "danger" signs. About 10 miles from Yuma we noticed the first green fields
with green trees on the edges as well as irrigation ditches. The number of green fields
(vegetables) and irrigation ditches increased the closer we got to Yuma — I hope there is a
garden market in town. The Colorado River passes through Yuma and provides much of the
water required by the farms. We understand that Yuma gets a 40% allotment of the total river's
water flow.
We are staying at an RV and Golf Resort on the Cocopah Indian Reservation on the west side of
Yuma. The resort has around 800 sites, a 18 hole golf course, 9 hole putting course, tennis
courts, shuffleboard, horse shoes, swimming pool, spa, library, ballroom, woodworking shop and
a 2 acre leash free pet exercise area that has green grass — not bad eh? Zaph is quite excited
about the pet exercise area and it is only a minute from our trailer. The "pet friendly area" area of
the park is large enough that he doesn't care that he can't walk through the entire park. It's
actually quite nice knowing that your neighbor isn't going to complain about your dog because
they probably have one if not two of their own. So far the people have been very friendly — I
already like Yuma better than Las Vegas.
you can camp and then we drove through a US military proving ground ... not sure what that is
but there was lots of "danger" signs. About 10 miles from Yuma we noticed the first green fields
with green trees on the edges as well as irrigation ditches. The number of green fields
(vegetables) and irrigation ditches increased the closer we got to Yuma — I hope there is a
garden market in town. The Colorado River passes through Yuma and provides much of the
water required by the farms. We understand that Yuma gets a 40% allotment of the total river's
water flow.
We are staying at an RV and Golf Resort on the Cocopah Indian Reservation on the west side of
Yuma. The resort has around 800 sites, a 18 hole golf course, 9 hole putting course, tennis
courts, shuffleboard, horse shoes, swimming pool, spa, library, ballroom, woodworking shop and
a 2 acre leash free pet exercise area that has green grass — not bad eh? Zaph is quite excited
about the pet exercise area and it is only a minute from our trailer. The "pet friendly area" area of
the park is large enough that he doesn't care that he can't walk through the entire park. It's
actually quite nice knowing that your neighbor isn't going to complain about your dog because
they probably have one if not two of their own. So far the people have been very friendly — I
already like Yuma better than Las Vegas.
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We have added a web page with a map of our current location and route to date