The motorhome is now parked at the Paradise Casino in Winterhaven, California. Less than 1/2 mile away is the Colorado River and on the other side…the sunniest place on Earth…Yuma, Arizona. I’ve been hanging out and enjoying the nice weather. I have several friends in the area. Mary is now expecting to rejoin me in mid-February. I’m planning to leave this area later this morning.
I’ve been coming to this Yuma, Arizona area coming on to 20 years and have thoroughly explored the area. Rather than go back to these various places and re-create the wheel, (unless I do something different and unusual) I’m electing to republish some of my earlier blog entries while I await Mary’s arrival.
Here’s a reprint of the blog entry from January 21, 2012…
Yesterday Mary and I walked across the border into Los Algodones, Sonora, Mexico. Why did we do that…you ask? So Mary could visit her dentist.
It’s reputed that within a four block radius there are more pharmacies, doctors, dentists and opticians here, than a similar four block area anywhere else in the world! Daily thousands of American and Canadian Snowbirds visit Los Algodones. I’ve been here a number of times…Mary first went there with me in 2009.
It can take as long as 2-3 hours later in the day to wait in line to cross back into the United States. The secret is to go early…get your business done…leave early. I abandoned Los Algodones dentists a number of years ago. My dentist is now in San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora, Mexico…about 20 miles south of Yuma, Arizona. I visited him about one month ago.
Here are some photos I took while Los Algodones…
As always you may left click upon an image to see an enlarged view and then click once again to see an even larger view…
Walking towards the border crossing…
If you bring guns or ammunition into Mexico…you may never be seen again…
Immediately after crossing into Los Algodones…
There are LOTS of signs like these all over Los Agodones…
Here’s photo of Mary in 2009 standing in front of her then dentist’s office…
Thanks to Mary and her oldest son Ken, her dentist now has a nice, new office…
Right next door to her dentist’s office is Maria’s Factory…
A pretty painted restaurant…
With a nice courtyard…
A typical street scene…
In a small central plaza…
Trinkets of all sorts can be found…
You can also watch artistic painters working with spray cans painting pretty scenes on satellite dishes…
We stopped at our favorite eating place. You can see Mary in the background…
You cannot beat the house policy…
After you are done eating you can step in the back to wash your hands…
Lots of places to buy booze…
Lots of pharmacies…
Another typical street scene…
And then you get in line to return to the United States. It wasn’t too bad…only about a twenty-minute wait…
Unfortunately Mary needs one more appointment…so next Monday we’ll once again return to Los Algodones, Sonora, Mexico. Hopefully that will conclude Mary’s dental activity and we can head on out to the Great adventure on Tuesday. If you do not know what the Great Adventure is…you can find out by clicking this link…
http://wp.me/pDCku-3lE
To find out all about Los Algodones, click this Wikipedia link…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Algodones
Here’s a good description of Los Algodones…
http://gosw.about.com/od/southwestmiscellaneous/a/Algodones.htm
End of Blog reprint…
I HOPE YOU ENJOYED THE PHOTOS.
In other news…
Today I’ll start slowly drifting northward…3 days and 300 miles to Las Vegas, Nevada. My son flies in on Saturday to attend a week-long convention. I’ve not seen him in 1.5 years. I also have a couple of other friends who live there. I expect to be there for at least two weeks.
Yesterday was a cloudy/sunny at 75 degrees. Forecast for today is sunny and 76 degrees.
The red dot on the below map shows our approximate location in the State of California. You may double left-click the map to make it larger…
Enjoying 65-75 degree temperatures with low humidity most of the year is a primary joy in the RVing lifestyle!
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving”…Albert Einstein
On October 27, 2012, I created a two-minute video titled America The Beautiful. The music America The Beautiful is by Christopher W. French. The photos, which I randomly selected, are from the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Tennessee, Washington and West Virginia (not shown in that order)…are mine. Yup, That’s me standing in front of the Post Office in Luckenbach, Texas…Y’all!
Click this link to start the video. Make sure you have your speakers turned on and go to full screen asap.
http://youtu.be/FfZUzEB4rM8
If you would like to see my YouTube videos, click this link… http://www.youtube.com/user/JimJ1579/videos
There are more than 500 photo albums in my Picasa Web Albums File. To gain access, you simply have to click this link… https://picasaweb.google.com/110455945462646142273?authkey=Gv1sRgCKrvzqm8-IKGdA
If you have not checked out my Ramblin Man’s Photos Blog, you can do so by clicking this link…http://ramblinmanphotos.wordpress.com/
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All original material Copyright – Jim Jaillet 2015
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