Located in southeast Arizona, the small rural community of Bowie (2010 population 449) was our next destination on our trek eastward. Considered high desert at an elevation of 3,750 feet, Bowie is surrounded by the picturesque mountains of Mount Graham reaching …
For sure it was the “darndest place” and it was in the darndest location! Never in our wildest dreams would we have expected to find an ostrich ranch in the middle of the Sonoran Desert. But there it was, right …
Continuing with our exploration of Yuma, everywhere we went there seemed to be advertisements for Medjool dates and for “date shakes”. Always willing to experience the local culture and cuisine, we had to visit Martha’s Gardens Date Farm which was started back in …
It was with very mixed emotions that we left Rancho California on the morning of March 1st, sad to be leaving our friends behind but eager to be on the move again after a three month stay. Our first stop …
Remember that saying from the 1989 movie Field of Dreams starring Kevin Costner where he says “If you build it, he will come.” Well, during our stay in Quartzsite, we went to a place near Parker, AZ that proves that …
When we first started RV’ing, people told us that going to Quartzsite was one of those things you just had to do at least once. Yep, we did it once, joining the Entegra Coach Owner’s Association (ECOA) rally in January, …
No Thanksgiving dinner in a Walmart parking lot for us! Despite striking out at several other RV parks, we were able to make a reservation for a 10 day stay at Vista Del Sol RV Resort, a 55+ gated adult …
Now that we had seen the man made marvel, Hoover Dam, by land and from above, we thought how about seeing it by water and from below? How awesome that would be! The more we thought about it, the more …
How often do you get to see two man made engineering marvels in such close proximity to each other? We did! All in the same day! The Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge or Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge is an arch bridge that spans the Colorado …
Hoover Dam. Oh, my how different things were since our last visit in the late 1980’s! Not the dam itself of course but everything around it. The Hoover Dam bypass road and Mike O’Callaghan – Pat Tillman Bridge was the most …
