Archive for December 13th, 2009

Hi There! Well, I promised you I would take my camera today, so I hope you enjoy all the pictures I got for ya! Give it an extra second or two to let the site download all the pictures! Great pictures too……

This morning was rainy. Ugh. I thought for sure the day was shot, so we decided to go to the movies at noon. We went to see “Old Dogs”. It’s a Disney movie! Great kid friendly movie with a very nice story. I enjoyed it. When we got out from the movies, the weather seemed to of turned around and it was 68 degrees and the sun was shining high! So we went out exploring…..

First stop – Imperial Dam. We had read about this location in the Yuma visitors guide. The road was blocked off to vehicles, but we could walk around and visit. There really isn’t much to do there, but they have a very nice view.

See the road was block (I take pictures of everything!) …….

This lake is on my left and the Imperial Dam is on my right…..

Too bad we couldn’t walk on the dam walkway, but that was blocked off to pedestrians…..

We left there and a little ways down the road there is alot of RVs dry camping…..I think this some sort of national park, there is a fee to stay here, $5 dollars a night…..

RVers just hanging out, they waved at us while we drove by…..

We drove down the road and there was the lake to my left and alot of RVs camping on my right…..

Now, this is a neat place….we drove down there just to look around. Dry camping and peaceful……

There were hundreds of campers of all sort dry camping……

After our journey through the mountains and the Imperial area, we stopped here on the way home……

Across the street from the store is the date trees…..

So that is what we did today. We ate dinner at the new Panda Express here next to Walmart near our RV Park and it was good. We have a Panda Chinese Restaurant in New Hampshire, so I’m familiar with their fast food. I got my fortune cookie and the fortune in the cookie said, “ATM on the right, Casino on the left” – NOoooo, I’m kidding! It didn’t say that – HA! My fortune said “Speak less of your plans – You will get more of them done”. Hmmmmm, basically I translate that to say that I talk too much! I probably do, but I’m that kind of social butterfly! Have a great night – OH, and the question of the day for you….I want to know…..what is your favorite fast food joint! Hey, got another question for all you RVers…..Have you tried dry camping? What do you think of dry camping? We have never tried it. Give me your dry camping story! Nite Nite!

Hi! I don’t have pictures today, but I’m in a yapping mood, so you will have to suffer through all I have to say. Nooo, don’t hit the “Close” button yet on the browser just yet. I might have something interesting to say. Let’s see, first off, what did we do today? Everyone gets to that point in their life where you know the wiring between the two DVD players, the surround sound system, and the TV just isn’t right. Our TV works great, and our DVD player works great, but the surround sound system isn’t working right. Wiring problems? Gotta be! So we took the TV out and traced the wires between all the video and audio systems to see if we were missing something, and it looks like there’s a cord belonging (belonging? is that a word?), that belongs between the TV and one of the DVD players to activate the surround sound system around the RV. I know that makes no sense at all, but after an hour of fidgeting around between all the tech stuff here, we have come to that conclusion. Anyways, we will go to radio shack and pick up the wire and give it a shot. I don’t know, we will figure it out. Oh well….enough about that.

Let me tell you a little about Yuma! That’s where we are – Yuma, Arizona until Feb 4th (then where? Vegas baby!), and I wanted to tell you a little about Yuma! There’s a few things I want to hit on. First off, there were 9 movies made in Yuma or right around the Yuma neighborhood. 1) The Son of the Sheik – 1926, 2) Road to Morocco – 1942, 3)Flight of the Phoenix – 1965, 4) Yep, you guessed it, Star Wars! – 1977, 5) Rambo III – 1988, 6) Stargate – 1993, 7) The Getaway – 1993, The Scorpion King – 2002, 9) Jarhead – 2005.

There! That’s your entertainment and history lesson all in one. Anyways, what else did we do today? Oh, we went to Walmart and went to the Quechan Casino and Resort. Ugh, I lost a little bit of money there, but I was doing pretty good at Keno! I like Keno, I remember when I was in Las Vegas last winter and I played the live Keno (not the Keno on an electronic machine, live Keno where you fill in the numbers with a pencil and give it to a Keno host), anyways, I played the Keno at the Binion Casino and I won $380, I got 6 out of 7 numbers. I couldn’t believe it! I love Keno now! We don’t have Keno in New Hampshire, actually we don’t have any gambling in New Hampshire. Keno is in Massachusetts and the casinos are in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Maine.

The Peanut Patch here in Yuma is neat. I’m still thinking about it. If you are in town you really should stop by. The store has peanuts, peanut brittle, medjool dates, homemade fudge, honey, trail mixes, and citrus. Yep, I’ve got the brochure right here and I’m reading in the brochure that peanuts are a vegetable!! They are a legume! Legumes are a rich source of plant protein that contains no cholesterol. Peanuts can help reduce risk of heart disease, help you with weight loss, and peanuts contains vitamins! You can look the details up on your own time, I’m just reading what’s in the brochure! The Peanut Patch is at 4322 E. County 13th Street and their phone number is 1-800-USA-PNUT.  They have a free tour on Tuesdays and Fridays in the months of January, February, and March. Neat!

Oh, I want to hit on Lutes Casino a little bit more too (where we had dinner last night)! I had a few people email me that wanted more information on this restaurant. I got that brochure here too! And it’s interesting too….Though this is called “casino”, there isn’t any gambling at the Arizona’s oldest pool hall. Basically, it’s just a hamburger and beer joint! And they have great hamburgers too (That part isn’t in the brochure, I’M telling ya that for a fact ), so let’s see here…..The Lutes family still owns and operates the “casino”, which R.H. Lutes acquired when a gambler to whom he’d loaned money couldn’t pay back his debt! Interesting story, huh? I thought so! Neat little place! FYI: Not really a RV friendly area. There’s plenty of parking, but I am talking about downtown. You will have to be super creative to park a RV down there, so I don’t recommend it.

Well, that’s pretty much all I have on my mind today. Tomorrow we have plans to go exploring…I can’t tell you where! You’ll have to come back right here on this site to find out what we did and take a peek at some of the pictures I got! Yep, I’ll bring my camera! Have a good night and chat tomorrow! OH, and leave me a comment…say Hi….tell me what you are up to….don’t by shyyyy