Feb. 17-22: While I took a shower Sunday morning, Marv looked carefully at the solar panel and found
some wires had pulled out. He fixed it and we anticipate much more success from
now on with charging our trailer battery. After scrambled eggs with lots of
veggies in them, we closed up camp and dumped our tanks, getting on the road to
Yuma by about 10:30. We drove south on I10 to a highway that cut across barren
and mostly uninhabited (by people, anyway) desert at a southwest angle to meet
up with I8, west to Yuma. We had a strong headwind and didn’t make very good
mileage. We had a surprisingly good data signal and managed to listen to most
of MSU’s basketball game at home against OSU. After a poor first half and
trailing by 6 going into the break, MSU came out strong, held OSU to only 13
second half points, and beat them by 19.
We drove NW out of Yuma,
across the US Army Proving Grounds, about 25 miles and came to several dams on
the Colorado River, which form small lakes and a large Recreation Area. Marv
had talked to someone by phone who assured us we could fill with water at the
second to last spot, and find a place to camp at the last one on the road,
called Squaw Lake. It was sunny, 65°, and the wind was gusting over 40mph as we
set up in what is basically a large parking lot on BLM land. They have a
bathhouse with flush toilets and pay showers, but no electricity or water, and
we can camp here for $12.50 a day, because of our National Park passes. We
backed into a spot overlooking the lake and decided this will do just fine for
4-5 days, while we wait for weather to improve in Tucson.
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| It was lovely to sit in the sun and read, although the winds were relentless. Our lakeside campsite is on a bank too steep to access the lake. |
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| Nice sunset out our window. The clouds surprised us by raining during the night but it ended by the time we got up in the morning. |
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