January 2020 Yuma, AZ Chasing the warmth
Wally and I didn’t realize how our boating life in tropical places had spoiled us for needing warm weather until we arrived in Benson, AZ just before Thanksgiving. In our previous blog posts we had described our trip south as “trying to avoid the Arctic Blasts reaching deep into the U.S.” … “daytime temps hovering in the 40’s”…” the night air will chill you to the bone”. Somehow we seemed to think that arriving back at our home RV Park in Benson, AZ would change all of that. Well, it didn’t! Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations were full of the warm wishes of the season, but the chilling temperatures left us cold. By the last days of December, we were on the move again. Yuma, the most southerly city in AZ, beckoned to us. Along our 300-mile trek SW, we stopped for a week in the Ajo/Why area. That gave us an perfect opportunity to explore the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument on the Mexican Border. By Jan.4th we were settled in an RV park in downtow...