Five couples and one guest attended the April 21 – 24 campout at the Riverside RV park in Winterhaven CA, just across the river from Yuma AZ. The park was spacious with full hookups (50 amps). The park is just south of I 8, 3 to 4 miles west of Yuma. Fortunately, the weekend was comfortably cool.
The mature trees shaded the backs of our rigs but did not interfere with satellite TV reception. From left to right, the rigs shown are ours, Holzes, Fusts, Williams and (out of sight) the Stones.
On Thurs. Herb Fust and I took a ride to downtown Yuma. Neither of us had been there before. It is across the tracks and freeway from the Territorial Prison. Wasn’t it nice of Yuma to name a ballroom after our club!
Friday we took the short ride to Algodones for a little shopping and lunch. Algodones has lots of offices of dentists, optometrists and pharmacies, primarily for the tourists from north of the border. Pictures of them are on an earlier blog, so I will not show them here.
Mary Fust is showing off her bracelet purchases.
And Elsie is showing her new ankle bracelet.
This vendor got Jo to try on a necklace. No sale to her.
Usually on the main corner artists are painting things to sell to tourists. All of the painting is done with cans of spray paint.
Below are more items made by spray painting out of aerosol cans
This is typical of many vendors booths – lots of inventory crowded into a small space.
Here is the guys side of the table at Pueblo Viejas where we had lunch in Algodones.
Williams’ guest, Charles Durazo, met us for lunch and enjoyed a dance or two with Elsie.
Saturday we toured the Territorial Prison State Park, literally on the bank of the Colorado River. The bridge in the background is the railroad bridge, and behind it is the old highway bridge. From left to right, Keith and Maxine Stone, Tom and Elsie Holz, Herb and Mary Fust, Jo, Barbara and Mike Williams.
The prison is well worth the 2 – 3 hours to go through it.
This cell is typical of he prison cells there – 6 men to a 10 x 12 cell!
There were separate cells for women in the part of the prison now demolished.
The locks on the cell doors were appropriately located well beyond arms reach from the cell.
Here is one of the cell blocks. Much of the old prison has been demolished for construction of railroad tracks and roads. There was a wooden structure over the cell blocks to provide them shade. Fires burned all of the wooden structures at the prison.
Here is the whole group at Da Boyz restaurant in downtown Yuma where we ate Friday night.
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