Hello Yuma!

February 10, 2012
Yuma, AZ

Well the first night in Yuma was the local casino.  Mark likes to take me to casinos whenever possible cuz he knows I enjoy them.  Well, I certainly did.  Unfortunately, I lost the second day in Yuma.  Hello couch, please bring me my oatmeal in bed, I have a hangover.  Hit a couple of good bonus rounds and started ordering Coronas.....end of story.

The third day was better.  Out we go to check out the local action.  We were lucky enough to be here on the Centennial celebration of Arizona becoming a state.  They had a celebration down town.  Small but nice.

Yuma is a large rural town.  A ton of agriculture here.  I believe they call themselves the "Winter Vegetable Capital of America".  They also grow a lot of dates around here.  They advertise date milkshakes.  Hmmm.  Haven't tried one but we did buy a bag of fresh dates.  Excellent.

They have water kiosks all over town.  Filtered water, no salt.  We started asking people what is wrong with the water.  You can see Mark in this picture, asking people why they are buying water.  These people didn't know.  Someone told them to buy water because water in Yuma wasn't good, so they did.  Another kid said his dad drank the water but he didn't cuz he didn't like the taste.  We have filters on the clubhouse so I drink tap water.

These places are set up like gas stations in some places.  Five or 10 cars at a time driving up to buy water.  50 cents for 5 gallons.

This is the view of the road to Fortuna de Oro where we are staying.  About 10 miles outside of Yuma.