You can't beat the weather in Yuma. Its been in the 90's but if you are in the shade its very nice and there hasn't been any wind. Last year in Texas it was humid -- making it hotter- and always windy. We spent some time with friends that we had met working at the refuge two winters ago. We went for a ride with them out on some Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land in California just on the other side of the Colorado River. We walked through a dry wash (gully) and we dug some dirt that we took back to process and look for gold. The washes had lots of water running through them during the monsoon season this past August/September. So its fun to walk them afterwards and see what's washed out of the mountains.
We found four specks of gold two of which you didn't need a magnifier to see out of three gallons worth of dirt. Ooooooh. In the picture Jim is checking the gold pan for a speck of gold while our friend watches him. Our friends are renting an RV lot in Yuma for a lot less a month than it costs to stay in one of the RV parks. Of course you don't have all of the park amenities like a pool and activities but there are lots of activities at the senior center in town to take advantage of if you want.
Their lot had a beautiful flowering bush and a grapefruit tree.
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