A Month In Yuma, Part I

Our last chapter concluded on Sunday, January 26^th, when we left Ehrenberg, Arizona and headed south a hundred miles to Yuma, Arizona. We settled into the Caravan Oasis RV Resort in the Foothills area of Yuma, at the east edge of town, for a month long stay. Our friends the Babcocks and the Bullocks area also here and the three of us are all parked in a row at the resort.

Monday, January 27^th, Jackie was up early with Suzie and Peggy and they all drove off for a girl's day in Mexico. We are very close to the border here in Yuma and there is a town called Algodones just across the border that is mostly a medical community, dentists, eye doctors, doctors, and pharmacies. They also have a couple of good restaurants and some shopping, but it is very much oriented towards the thousands of seniors that come to Yuma over the winter, so it is one of the few places in Mexico where we feel fairly safe. The three of our wives stopped at the casino in Winterhaven, California and picked up one more friend of ours, Sharon Minard, who is staying in Pilot Knob, an RV park near there, and the four of them went into Algodones for the day.

While they were gone I spent some time finishing up the decorations outside of our coach. We set up a “party central” area between our coach and the Bullocks' coach with some ground pads, lots of lights and some propane fire pits, so we would have one place to gather for happy hours and any outside meals or other activities. The girls had a good time, did some shopping and had lunch, and everyone was back at the RV park by about 3:00. During the afternoon Clark and Judy McKay also arrived at the park and joined our little group. They will only be here for a week or so though. We had cocktails with group at happy hour, but everyone went back to their own coaches for dinner.

On Tuesday I left the coach about 9:30 and drove into central Yuma to the Sam's Club to try and get the flat tire on the Jeep fixed. I discovered a flat on the car yesterday, just as we were getting ready to leave for Yuma. I had a good spare, so I changed the tire, but now I wanted to get it fixed. I hate driving without a good spare tire. As it turned out, the tire had a small tear close to the sidewall, likely something I drove over on our last day caching in Quartzsite. The tire guy was telling me that it was not repairable. I gave it some thought and decided to order new tires for the car. The ones on it now have about 57,000 miles on them if you combine driving miles plus towing miles, and a couple of them, including the one that went flat, are getting a little thin. I didn't want to just get one or two new tires, so I ordered four new ones, for a cost of just under $800. Yikes. They had to order them in, so it will be towards the end of the week or early next week before I get them.

With that chore done I headed back to the coach and got things set up for the big party we are having tonight. Our friends the Minards, Ray and Curt and their wives Sharon and Del, are leaving Pilot Knob on Wednesday, so we wanted to have one last get together with everyone before they went off on their own schedules. Peggy and Vernon also invited some friends of theirs that had a winter place out here in the Foothills area, so we were figuring on having at least 16 people. Besides me there were a couple of singers in the group, Sharon and Peggy's friend Barbara, so I set up the karaoke equipment on the patio too. The park said we could do it so long as we shut down by 10:00.

Around 5:00 everyone started showing up and I think we ended up with 18 people. We all had cocktails for an hour or so and I played some music in the background. The dinner was a potluck, so there was plenty of food when we started eating around 6:00. Just before 7:00 I started doing karaoke and we sang until about 9:00. There were only the three singers, but everyone seemed to enjoy the music and had a good time. By 9:30 we had everything cleaned up and we were in the coach watching TV. A really fun night with old friends and new.

Wednesday, January 29^th, we left the coach about 8:30 with Peggy and Vernon, headed back north to Quartzsite again. We were in their Jeep this time because I didn't want to drive the 150 mile round trip without a spare tire. We were headed back up there to attend a geocaching event, an annual gathering put on by the Escapee's RV Club geocaching group. We had gone to the event last year too. Last year Ray and Suzie Babcock went with us, the Bullocks were in Florida. Suzie had a toothache and they were headed down to Algodones today so they wouldn't be going to Quartzsite. It took a little over an hour to drive to the event site, which was out in the desert on the BLM land where many RVers boondock in the winter. We met a few people that we know, listened some presentations, and swapped some travel bugs. We were at the event probably two and a half hours, but we had fun.

After the event we stopped at a nice cafe in town for lunch. We ate at the Mountain Quail Cafe in Quartzsite. We had tried to eat here one afternoon when we were staying up in the area, but during the RV show there are so many people in town that the wait times are horrible. This time we were able to get right in and get a table. We just had sandwiches, which were pretty good, although the service was a little iffy, even when the place wasn't busy. After lunch we started back towards Yuma, stopping along the way to pick up some geocaches. We ended up getting eight new finds, one of which represented the 2,000^th find for the Bullocks. Yea Peggy and Vernon! We are always proud of the accomplishments of the Bullocks and the Babcocks in caching because they are both our caching “children,” people that we got interested in the sport and sort of trained.

We got back to the RV park about 4:00 and by 5:00 we were back out for cocktails. We decided to have some hamburgers on the BBQ for the eight of us, plus Peggy's grandson Troy, the new Marine stationed here in Yuma. So we, the Babcocks, Bullocks, and McKays all had hamburgers, salad and some of Ray's leftover baked beans from yesterday, and ate outside. We had a great time again. We finally all went back into our own coaches around 8:00 and we watched TV the rest of the night.

Thursday, January 30^th, was laundry day for most of our group. We and the Bullocks went out after lunch to a coin laundry across the freeway from the RV park and got our laundry done. Ray did his laundry at the RV park. Later in the afternoon we got together for cocktails,but everyone had dinner on their own. We had a light dinner and then watched TV the rest of the evening.

Friday we all left the park about 10:00, all headed for the same place but everyone in their own cars because we wanted to be able to keep our own schedules. We all first drove to the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma so we could get our range passes. The southern part of the military's Barry Goldwater Weapons Range is located just east of the city limits and runs from the Mexican border north about thirty miles, to the Foothills area of Yuma, where we are staying. There are hundreds of caches hidden on the range, with the military's permission, but in order to go on the range you need to get a pass. The pass is free and I always tell everyone the only reason they require you to get one is so you can sign all the waivers that hold the government harmless if you get killed. Some parts of the range are “hot” and still being used, but most of it is open to the public, with passes, and we always like to go out there and cache.

Once we, the Bullocks and the Babcocks had our passes we all drove to the nearby Arizona Marketplace, a big swap meet on the east side of Yuma. We love to shop the Marketplace at least a couple of times when we stay in Yuma. I bought a couple of flags and Jackie bought some visors, but other than that we just walked around and looked at stuff. We got about halfway through the market, which is pretty big, and decided we were hungry and could come back and finish the place next weekend. We and the Bullocks drove to a Chinese restaurant that we have eaten at before, called Yuma Palace, and had lunch. This is a large, very nice menu restaurant, no buffet, and the food has been very good in the past. This time the food was still quite good, but the service was a little iffy, mostly because the kitchen seemed to be overwhelmed. It was slow and the orders came out mixed up. I waited ten minutes after everyone else got their food before mine came. Despite the service the food was still among the best Chinese I have eaten, so we still enjoyed lunch.

After lunch we headed back to the coach for the rest of the afternoon. We got together with the group at happy hour, but didn't stay out too long after sunset as the last couple days it has been cooler. After the sun goes down it gets uncomfortable outside. Everyone decided to do dinner on their own again, so we went back into the coach and watched TV the rest of the night.

Saturday, February 1^st, we were up and out of the house by 9:30 to do some geocaching. We went in our car and Peggy and Vernon took their Jeep because their grandson Troy was going along and it was too crowded for five in our car alone. Ray and Suzie had planned on going out with us too, but Ray said Suzie wasn't feeling well and they were going to pass. With the five of us we headed out to do some caches in the general area of the Foothills and by about 12:30 we had managed to get 20 new finds with no DNFs.

With a good productive few hours of caching we stopped at a fish and chips place in the Foothills for lunch. We had eaten at Mr. Fish before and it was good again. It is good fish, not the best I've ever had, but certainly worth the stop. We had a great lunch and when we were done we did one more geocache before heading back to the RV park. We stopped at a new “travel bug hotel” that had been put out recently. It was a very big metal cabinet that had several dozen travel bugs in it. We traded out a half dozen bugs and Peggy did the same.

We then went back to the RV park and relaxed until cocktail hour. Our whole group gathered again outside, but as with yesterday, didn't stay out much after sundown as it was pretty chilly. We had dinner with Peggy and Vernon and Troy in their coach. We made some rice and beans and Peggy made some taco meat and we had a big taco dinner. Very good food, great company, and a nice evening. About 8:30 we were back in our coach for the rest of the evening.

Sunday, February 2^nd, Super Bowl Sunday. The big game day. We decided not to go anywhere today and our whole group was going to get together outside of Ray's coach for the big game because he was the only one of the group who had an outside TV. We all started gathering about 3:00 or so for pre-game snacks and cocktails. We had a little twenty-five cent a square pool going among our group, but one of the neighbors came over and they had a hundred square pool for a dollar a square and needed some additional participants. Most of our group bought five squares. This pool was going to pay at halftime and final score.

The game started at 4:30 and most of our group were Bronco's fans. Nobody was a big time, die hard football fan, but we all were sort of rooting for Payton Manning to win. I won't go into a lot of detail, because EVERYONE knows what happened. We all just sat there in a deepening state of shock and dismay. Suffice to say, I have never seen a worse football game, let alone a Super Bowl game. It was like the Seahawks were playing a Pop Warner team. There were a lot of Canadians in groups around us and they all seemed to be Washington fans. They were pretty happy. We had a lot of snacks and good food, Judi McKay won the halftime pool on the big pool for $30 and Jackie won our little pool for $6.25. We had a great time with friends, but watched a lousy football game. We finally all broke up and went back to our own coaches around 8:30.

Monday, January 3^rd, I left the coach around 10:00 and drove to Sam's Club to get the new tires installed on the Jeep. I feel much better now that I have four new tires on the road and a good spare. After I got back to the coach we went out again to do some geocaching. Peggy came along with us, but Vernon wanted to stay home and get some things ready for their trip back to Redding in a few days. Their grandson Troy, the young Marine stationed here in Yuma, is going back later this week to get married. Peggy and Vernon are going to leave their coach here in Yuma and drive him back for the wedding.

The three of us were able to get a dozen new finds in just a couple of hours. After caching we went back to the coach and relaxed until cocktail hour. We had cocktails with most of the group at 5:00. Clark and Judi McKay had left this morning to drive back to their home in Southern California for some doctor appointments. They too left there coach parked here at the park and will be returning this weekend to stay the rest of the month with the rest of us. After cocktails we gathered in Ray's coach for a dinner of leftovers from the last couple of get togethers. We were back in our coach about 7:30 and watched TV the rest of the night.

Tuesday, February 4^th, we left the coach about 12:30 or so, after lunch, to go out and do some caching. Ray and Suzie went with us and we went out to try and get some special caches that had been put out for the big geocaching event coming up this next weekend. We had already gotten one of the special caches a couple days ago, and today we were able to get eight more of the ten caches. We only have to get the one more between now and the weekend. After caching we stopped at the store for a couple things and then went on home.

We and the Babcocks got together for cocktails about 5:00. Peggy and Vernon were still at the park, but they didn't drink because they were getting ready to leave to drive back to Redding, California as soon as their grandson Troy got off work at the Marine base. Troy got there about 5:30 and all of us waved goodbye as they headed off for Troy's wedding on Saturday. Like the McKays, they left their coach here at the park and just drove home in the car. A little later we got together with Ray and Suzie for dinner. We BBQd some burgers and had some more leftovers from Super Bowl Sunday. We went back to our place about 8:00 and watched TV the rest of the evening.

Wednesday, February 5^th, happy birthday to me! The big 67 and I am still kicking pretty well. We decided to have a stay at home day, and for the most part we did. About 5:30 or so we left the RV park with Ray and Suzie and drove into town to the Outback steakhouse for a birthday dinner celebration. I had a nice big porterhouse steak, Jackie and Ray and lamb and Suzie had fish. All of our meals were excellent and the service was very good as well, plus I got a free ice cream sundae for desert. Yea! After dinner we drove back to the park and had another cocktail with Ray and Suzie before heading to our coach for the rest of the night.

Thursday we left the coach with Ray and Suzie for some geocaching. We got ten new finds in a few hours, mostly around the airport area. We spent a few minutes parked at the edge of the Marine Corps Base, which shares it's runways with the Yuma International Airport, and watched the Marines flying touch and goes with two of it's new FA-35B aircraft. The F-35 is the latest U.S. Military jet and is the first real multi-service aircraft manufactured since WW-II. It is known officially as the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) and is being built by Lockheed Martin Corporation, and is called the Lightning II. There are three variations of the same basic aircraft, the “A” model for the Air Force, the “B” model for the Marine Corps and the “C” model for the Navy. They are also planning on selling all three variants to friendly foreign nations.

All of the variants have stealth characteristics with the “A” being a basic supersonic air superiority fighter, intended to replace both the F-16 fighter and the A-10 attack aircraft of the Air Force. The “B” model has special engine nozzles and thrust deflectors to make

it a vertical take off and landing aircraft, intended to replace the A-8 Harrier currently in service with the Marine Corps. The “C” model has larger wings and fuselage modifications to accommodate the stress of a tail hook and catapult launch hook for use by the Navy on air craft carriers. This model will replace the older FA-18 aircraft. I have seen a lot of pictures of the plane, but this is the first time that I have seen one flying and we got some really good views of it from only a couple hundred feet away.

There is one squadron here at Yuma Marine Corps Air Station that is flying the new plane and I think they only have three or four them right now. They are still in the process of introducing the new plane and training pilots and ground support crews. The Navy and Air Force variants haven't been started in line service yet, although they are flying in test squadrons around the country.

After our caching we stopped at the same Chinese restaurant that we and the Bullocks went to last weekend and the food was just as good. Thankfully, the service was excellent this time too. After lunch we went back to the coach briefly before going to Walmart with Ray and Suzie for some supplies. After we got back we had cocktails with them before finally settling in for the night.

Friday, February 7^th, our tenth wedding anniversary! Ten years ago today we got married at the Indio Elks Lodge and these have been ten wonderful years with my best friend, my lover, my wife. About noon we left the park and went to a nearby restaurant called Daybreakers to meet with our friends Charles and Jan Alphonso. Regular readers may recall that we knew Jan and Charles from the Indio Elks Lodge and that they sold their place in Indio a few years back and moved to a nice home in northern Mississippi, actually just a couple miles south of Memphis, Tennessee. They have been in Indio for the past few weeks because Jan had some dental work being done that she wanted done by her old dentist. They had stopped to visit with us for a few hours when we were in Ehrenberg, Arizona a couple weeks back.

It turns out that they needed to have some work done on their coach and were using a shop here in Yuma. When Jan found out we were staying just around the corner from where they were having the work done, she called and suggested we do lunch. We had a nice lunch and chatted with them for a couple of hours. When they left to go back and tend to their coach, we went out and did a little shopping nearby and then went back to the RV park. Around 5:00 we got together with Ray and Suzie, as well as Clark and Judi McKay, who had returned from their visit back to their house in Southern California. They had gotten in late last night, just before we went to bed, so we hadn't had a chance to see them yet. We had cocktails and then Ray served us all a nice dinner of shrimp curry and garlic bread. The meal was great, as was the company. We stayed and talked until a little after 8:00 when we went back to our coach and watched TV until bedtime. It was a very nice day and a nice way to celebrate our wedding anniversary with friends.

Saturday, February 8^th, another anniversary of sorts for us. It was on this day in 1998 that I first reconnected with Jackie after not having seen her for more than 20 years. It was that connect that started the journey we continue today. We had a fairly relaxing day, after lunch we went out and ran some errands locally, and then hung around the coach until about 3:30 when we left to drive to downtown Yuma for a geocaching event. There is a big annual caching event scheduled for tomorrow in Yuma, which we will be going to and will talk more about in tomorrows entry. The group putting on the big event always schedules smaller “warm up” events for the Friday and Saturday prior to the big event. We skipped yesterday's “flash mob” event downtown, it seemed too much trouble to drive fifteen miles to an event that would last about fifteen minutes, however tonight's event was a “meet and greet” to be held at a restaurant on Main Street in downtown and they were expecting about 800 cachers to be in attendance. In our six years of caching we have met a lot of cachers, most of whom we only see at caching events, so we wanted to go to this one tonight to see some old friends.

The event, which was to start at 4:30, was being held in a new restaurant in Old Town, called The Standard Bar and Grill. It looks like an old department store that has been converted and the place is very large. The caching group made arrangements for the place to open early so we essentially had the place to ourselves until about 7:00. We got there about 20 minutes before the official start time and there were already a hundred people there. By about 5:00 it looked like they were well over 500, pretty much packing the restaurant. We met a dozen or so caching teams that we knew and had fun seeing them again.

We sat at a table with Russ and Nellie Reichert, who are cachers from Oregon that we met at a geocache in Quartzsite about five years ago. Since that time we have visited with them at there home in Grants Pass, Oregon, and seen them at a couple of events. We last saw them about three years ago, although we keep up with them online. We had a great time catching up with old friends and talking to new ones. The thing about these events is that you are constantly meeting new caching friends. You wear a name tag with your caching name, so someone will see our tag “TravelingHolts” and tell us, “oh, I see your name all the time on caches.” We do the same thing with other cachers.

The food at the restaurant was OK. We had a calamari appetizer that wasn't very good at all, and the waitress actually took that off our bill. My cheeseburger, however, was very good, as was Jackie's Caesar salad. The waitress was very good, despite the huge crowd, and she maintained a good sense of humor through the night. We finally left the restaurant about 7:00 and drove back to the coach. We had a cocktail with Ray and Suzie, and Judi and Clark, but were back in our coach in front of the TV by about 8:30.

Sunday, February 9^th, we were up and in the car with Ray and Suzie by 8:30, heading to a city park near downtown Yuma for the 11^th Annual Yuma Geocaching Event. This event is sponsored by a group known as SWAG, Southwest Arizona Geocachers, and is usually the second weekend in February. Today will be the third one we have attended. Last year the event was officially sanctioned by Groundspeak, the company that runs geocaching.com and is kind of the Headquarters of the sport, as a Mega Event. To be a Mega Event you have to have over 500 participants. Last year there were over 1,200 and they expected about the same turnout this year. The first event in 2003 they said they had 53 participants.

We got to the event, which was in a very nice park just west of downtown and right on the Colorado River, right at 9:00, the official starting time. We set up our lawn chairs in a nice spot in the shade and spent some time walking around, talking to friends, and making new ones. There were also a couple of vender booths set up that we visited. We participated in the poker run, which had you navigate to five locations in the park to pick up a sealed envelope with a playing card in it. After you had found the five caches and collected the cards, you took them back to the booth where they opened the envelopes to see what kind of poker hand you created. We had one pair, nines, pretty much the same as what we had last year, nothing. The event was eventually won with a hand of four aces.

We had packed a lunch this year since the free food provided at previous year's events was not part of this year's event. They had a couple of food trucks in the parking lot, but we packed some chips and sandwiches for ourselves and some friends of ours from Palm Desert, Roy and Darcie. They had driven down and were staying

in a motel, so we told them we would fix sandwiches for them too. The event was over at 2:00, so after all the drawings, of which we won none, we packed everything back in the car and headed back to the RV park.

About 5:00 we went outside to have cocktails with Ray and Suzie and noted that there was an impromptu jam session going on just one coach down from the Babcocks. We took our chairs and went down there were a number of people were playing guitars, singing and having a good time. They asked me if I wanted to sing, so I did about three numbers along with the “band” as backup. We had so much fun we told the group that we would host the event next Saturday and throw in some karaoke too. About 7:30 we called it a night and went back to our coach for the rest of the evening.

Monday, February 10^th, I was out of the house about 7:00 to take Benji, our younger cat, to the vet for some shots and to have his front claws removed. We had tried to avoid doing this with him, but we have been unable to control his clawing and in the limited area of the coach, and with his level of activity, he was starting to really tear things up. He will be staying overnight after the surgery and we can pick him up tomorrow morning.

After lunch Jackie and I went to the Yuma mall to do some shopping and just get some exercise walking around. We went to three or four different department stores, but ended up not buying anything at all. After our shopping trip we went back to the coach and relaxed for a little while before joining the Babcocks and McKays for cocktails. Around 6:30 the six of us went to the Daybreakers, the truck stop restaurant right next door to the RV park, for dinner. The food was excellent as was the service. With a discount coupon we had from one of the local guidebooks, our bill was right at $20 for both Jackie and I for a nice dinner, including a beer for me. I had a hamburger steak dinner and Jackie had an omelet. After dinner we went back to the coach and watched TV the rest of the evening.

Tuesday I went down in the morning and picked up Benji and brought him home. We decided to do a stay at home day because we wanted to be sure that he was going to be OK before leaving him alone in the coach. He seemed to be in pretty good spirits, but he is being very careful when he walks and limps sometimes. I checked his paws a couple times during the day and there was no bleeding and he didn't appear to have a lot of swelling, so I think he will be OK.

Early in the afternoon Peggy and Vernon arrived back at the RV park from their trip to Redding, California for their grandson Troy's wedding. Troy and his new wife Makayla had visited briefly earlier in the day because they had made it back on Monday. They wanted a little extra time to get moved into their new base housing before Troy had to go back to work on Wednesday. We had cocktails with Peggy and Vernon and the rest of the group around five, and then everyone went off to their own coaches about 7:00.

Wednesday, February 12^th, Benji seemed to be recovering well, so we left the coach about 10:00 or so and headed down to Algodones, Mexico for the first time on this visit to Yuma. We had an appointment at our dentist there to get our teeth cleaned and checked and then we were going to meet friends for lunch and some shopping. Our teeth cleaning went well and the exams showed no problems. We went to one of the restaurants in Algodones that we have been to in the past, a place called La Parisio, for lunch. Ray and Suzie were already there holding a table for us. They have been coming down every other day for a couple of weeks now getting some medical procedures done. Shortly after we got there we were joined by Clark and Judi McKay. We had a great two hour lunch, listened to some pretty good entertainment, and then did some shopping. We finally got in line to cross back into the U.S. A little before 4:00 and we were back in the RV park just a couple minutes after five.

We had our little happy hour group with all eight of us and were also joined by Troy and Makayla. We looked at a few of the wedding pictures and heard stories about the wedding and Makayla's family and life. Peggy and Vernon were going to make dinner for Troy and Makayla and the rest of us were still pretty full from the late lunch, so about 7:30 we were back in our coach watching TV.

Thursday, February 13^th, we left the coach about noon with Peggy and Vernon and drove to the Yuma Mall area to have lunch with some friends, Linda and Ernie Ellis. We met Linda and Ernie on our Alaska trip back in 2009, the same trip on which we first met Peggy and Vernon. All of us were on the same 49 day caravan touring Alaska. Linda and Ernie have a home in Folsom, California, near Sacramento, but are on the road most of the year. They have two passions, square dancing and singing with the FMCA Frustrated Maestros Chapter. So they travel around the country, following the square dance competition circuit for part of the year and the FMCA rally circuit at other times. We run across them a couple times a year, but Peggy and Vernon haven't seen them in several years.

We went to Mimi's Restaurant for lunch and had a very nice lunch, spending a couple hours chatting and catching up on our travels. Linda has always been interested in our hobby of geocaching, although I doubt that they would ever take it up because of the amount of time they spend on their other hobbies, she really likes to hear about our caching adventures. So, after lunch, we went out and found two caches that were hidden near the mall so that Linda and Ernie could see us “in action” if you will. After that we drove back to the RV park, pretty much just in time for our cocktail hour with our group. It was a very nice night after a warm day, so we ended up staying outside and talking until about 7:30 or so, after which we went in and watched TV until bed. With our late lunch we didn't do any dinner.

Friday, February 14^th, Happy Valentine's Day and Happy Birthday to my granddaughter Courtney on her 25^th birthday. Not surprisingly, her middle name is Valentine. We left the coach after lunch with Ray and Suzie and drove to the Arizona Marketplace, the outdoor sales area on the edge of town. We were there a couple weeks ago, but didn't get to finish the entire place. We went just to finish up the entire marketplace. Peggy and Vernon also went there and we met them there. After we finished the marketplace we went to the Yuma Indoor Swap meet, closer in town. We hadn't been to this particular swap meet in a couple of years. The six of us walked around for an hour and a half or so before we decided we had enough.

We went back to the coaches to relax for a while. We took our own car and drove to Fry's to get some groceries. Ray and Suzie went with Clark and Judi to one of the local gun stores to look at guns and shoot a few on the indoor range. They are all from California, so they like to come to Arizona where the attitude towards guns is a lot less harsh. We picked up some steaks and had a nice BBQ with the Bullocks. We had some really nice steaks, some sweet potatoes and Jackie made a salad with her homemade Green Goddess dressing. We had a very nice dinner with friends. About 8:00 Peggy and Vernon went back to their coach and we relaxed with the TV the rest of the night.

A nice holiday like Valentine's seems to be a good place to close this chapter and get it published. We still have a couple weeks here in Yuma before we move on to Casa Grande, Arizona. Until the next time, remember that love makes the world go around. I love everyone! I love to be around some people, I love to stay away from others, and some I'd just love to punch right in the face! See ya soon.