Yuma, Arizona

Yesterday I drove the motorhome the 15 miles from Winterhaven, California to Yuma, Arizona. I’m parked on BLM land about 12 miles north of Yuma, Arizona.

I’m here because my ex-WIN RV Singles group comes here for a two-week Christmas/New Year stay. I left he WIN group after 10 years in 2006. I thought it would be nice to say hello to some of my old friends. Here are some photos of the area. These photos are unusual because of the clouds. Yuma claims to be the sunniest city in the United States and indeed, cloudy days here are very rare…

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…

Taken from the roof of my motorhome…a 180 degree panorama…

A more central view. When I belonged to WIN we had about double the current membership and this place would be really crowded…

As always, I like to show a photo of the random view out of the dinette window…

Unfortunately, this location in addition to being somewhat crowded is noisy…being right along U.S. Highway 95 with a very busy…all hours of the day and night railroad directly on the other side of the highway. It also tends to be very dusty. FINALLY…there is a crop dusting plane nearby who flies all night long. He awoke me at 10:28 PM last night and about every 15 minutes takes off directly over my motorhome making sleep very difficult. So much so, I got up at 3:00 AM to write this Blog entry because I could not get any sleep. FINALLY AND FINALLY…I’m allergic to the crop-dusting chemicals which leads to a very nasty sinus infection. Here’s what it did to me in 2006. The left side of my face really swells up…

I did get to see a few of my old friends yesterday afternoon and may get to see a few others this morning. BUT, I’m out of here…soon.

Later this morning I’ll re-cross the Colorado River back into Winterhaven, California and rejoin my friend Randy and others at the Paradise Casino for the time being.

It’s now 4:15 AM and despite the crop-dusting plane still flying, I’m going back to bed and try to get a little more sleep.

Yesterday was a mostly cloudy day at 66 degrees.  Forecast for today is mostly sunny with and 66 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 2013

Wadsworth, Texas – Along The Colorado River Trail

Yesterday we drove the motorhome the about 20 miles from Palacios, Texas to the Farm To Market Road 521 Colorado River Trail parking area along the Colorado River near Wadsworth, Texas where we spent last night. We are visiting with some folks who belong to the WIN (Wandering Individual Network), my ex-singles RV group of which I was a member from 1997 to 2007…my BM (before Mary) days. We’ll move on later this morning…

You may have noticed recently that we have been slowly moving north and as we follow the Texas Gulf of Mexico Coast…east. The reason is because on February 6th, we have reservations to enter Sam Houston Jones State Park at Lake Charles, Louisiana for a one-week stay while we enjoy Mardi Gras!

Here are some of the photos that I took. With the exception of the last photo who are WIN’s, all other people in the photos just happened to be fishing here along the river…

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…

Every afternoon afternoon at 4:00 PM, Win’s have a social gathering. Including Mary and myself, yesterday’s gathering had a total of eight travelers…

Meeting up with old friends is another joy of the full-time RVing lifestyle!!!

Here’s a Google Earth image of our location. The X marks our location…

The red dot on the below map shows our approximate location in the State of Texas. You may double left-click the map to make it larger…(look closely on the Texas coast…)

Enjoying 65-75 degree temperatures 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

If you have not checked out my Ramblin Man’s Photos Blog, you can do so by clicking this link…
http://ramblinmanphotos.wordpress.com/

All original material Copyright – Jim Jaillet 2013
For more information about my three books, click this link:
http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/panamaorbust