Departure From Yuma

Just as planned we departed our winter home in Yuma, AZ at 4 minutes before our projected 9:00 AM departure time.  Doesn’t such promptness almost make you sick?  But we were awake shortly after 5:00AM (which is our normal time) so we just took our time, ate our breakfast, got our showers, put everything away that could go flying inside the rig, pulled our slides in, hitched up to the truck and off we went. 

Of course yesterday Jake noticed that strange things were going on as we stowed and cleaned in preparation of our departure.  I didn’t think too much of him not eating his dinner as he does that on occasion because he watches his weight (haha).  But then this morning first thing, he greeted us by throwing up.  He is fine now.  He ate his breakfast. But he was settled into the truck 45 minutes before we left.  We think he was just nervous about going.

I took the picture above while Kirby was closing and locking the gate.  We are both pretty excited to be on our way for our second season of travel.

We were not even on the freeway 5 minutes when we had to stop at a US Border Checkpoint.  For those of you who live nowhere near a US border, this is a stop in the middle of the freeway that is manned by very military looking Border Patrol Agents.  It can be very intimidating until you understand what it is about.  They are looking for illegal immigrants – and the car in front of us was from California but had Mexicans in it.  So we had to wait for him to thoroughly check their passports and documentation.  Now we are on our way!

Our first stop will be to visit longtime friends Bill and Sandy and meet their newly adopted dog, Freckles.  We know Bill and Sandy from our boating days in Mexico.  We share a wedding anniversary with them – August 6.  But they have been married much longer than we have.  They have a large piece of property and have invited us to spend the night there with them.  This will be a first for us – someone’s yard!  I love new experiences!

Then tomorrow we are going to see Mac and Consuelo.  Last we saw them they were living in Texas but last year they moved to the Tucson area.  They are promising us a hike at their local state park.

We will probably stop along the way and have a light lunch.  The day is warm and sunny and life is good.