The trip from Quartzsite to Yuma took about an hour and a half at most, and was an easy drive. As we approached Yuma, we began to see lots of agricultural fields and irrigation canals. I hadn’t realized, but agriculture in the Imperial Valley extends this far east.

 The lady that checked us in to the park, was most friendly and helpful. She gave us maps and listings of what’s happening in Yuma, and guided us to our site. The sites are all pretty small, close together, and back-to-back, but a huge number of snow birds had already left, and there was plenty of space for us, and space to pull through into our site. The park is a bit off the beaten path, and so it’s quiet. It’s along the river, or perhaps that’s an irrigation canal – I don’t know! 🙂 Anyway, no mosquitoes thankfully, but flies, yes. It doesn’t seem to be an over-55 park, but there are still quite a number of older people here, and you can see them out walking their dogs, and they seem friendly enough.

It’s a pretty much no-frills park, which explains the price, but there’s a very small clubhouse and a listing of daily activities. There’s a wi-fi hotspot at the manager’s trailer, but it doesn’t extend out into the park. You have to sit there in the heat to use the wi-fi. There are train tracks fairly near by, but I’ve only noticed one train in the evening, and the sound of it was not loud and was actually soothing. There’s park cable tv with only 4 channels (one of which is in Spanish), but our LED lights interfered with it, so we switched over to antenna, and got 7 channels. I’d consider this place for wintering if it weren’t for the lack of wi-fi, no pool, and not many activities. Too bad, because I like it here and everyone seems to know each other and are affectionate. Watched a couple of people check out as I sit here typing this, and they were all so affectionate with the manager as if she were family. That was nice.

 Saturday morning we took a tour of the infamous Arizona Territorial Prison. Interesting! Would have been pretty grim to be a prisoner there for sure!! Much of the actual prison is gone though, and parts have been restored. A good section of cell block still remains though, and a lot of the cells have a lot of graffiti from the thirties when a lot of “hobos” used it for home.

 Lunch was a Lin’s Chinese Buffet and was surprisingly good. About $11.50 a piece for us seniors. It was popular and busy and had pizza and American food as well as sushi and Mongolian grill. I’d go back for sure.

   There’s a Cracker Barrel not far away too, near a large mall. Shopping of all kinds is not too far and so is the downtown. This seems to be what I’d call a one-story town. I haven’t seen any buildings over a story tall except for chain hotels, which were the typical three story buildings. I like one-story towns! 🙂