Its getting warm

One last beautiful sunrise in Yuma.   We left Yuma just has it was really heating up into the high 90's.  The businesses in Yuma were starting to get ready for the heat to come.  They tape hotpads to their outside door handles.  The laundromats close at noon because it just gets too hot to run dryers.   They don't even do much road work come summertime so they have to do it during the heavy traffic time of winter.

We didn't travel very far when we left Yuma just 90 miles north to Quartzsite so we didn't escape the heat.  Our first ride out into the desert and we met mister rattlesnake.  We stopped and went around the snake.  The snake was just out doing snaky things and not bothering anyone way out in the desert. 

We are going to stay here for a couple weeks and do some trail riding and hopefully some gold prospecting.   We will just have to be very careful of snakes and other creepy crawlers.  I guess we have spent so much time in the desert that we have gotten used to the critters that live here.    Everywhere we look the cactus are getting ready to bloom.  Can't wait to get some pictures!