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Hello all! We have now finished a week in Arizona under daily warm temperatures of the mid – to high 20’s, (though sometimes with cool breezes). We have enjoyed our location at Rivers Edge RV Park. We are on electrical and water hook-up, close to a washroom, shower and laundry building, and right beside the Colorado River. The swimming pool that used to be so crowded is now almost empty as is the whole RV park. (Maybe about 50% full.)

We have completed two 25+ km bike rides on river and canal trails, and cruised through a beautiful “Wetlands Park” right across the river from where we are parked.

On Saturday, we planned to attend the Yuma Air Show out near the Marine base. So, we drove the GMC past the lengthy line-up of vehicles and police cars that were slowly parading into the Airfield, and headed around the base to the south where we cleverly thought we could view the air show without being entered into a military security database as “aliens”. We parked in a likely spot so that we were shielded from the sun, and after about an hour of waiting we finally saw a single jet performing some aerobic manoeuvres above the air base – mostly as a dot way off in the distance. Occasionally, the jet would roar over our heads. Then, as I moved my head to try to spot the distant jet I thought I saw 5 jets performing manoeuvres! But it was just bugs that appeared to be in motion on the windshield! I hope that the airshow was worth the wait at the gate, because from where we watched mostly nothing for 3 hours, it was not scintillating! (A word I learned from Danny Gallivan, the Montreal hockey broadcaster, many, many years ago!)

My levelling demonstration using a marble was the forerunner for a natural marble-rolling performance every minute that we have been here. We are parked under a beautiful Arizona sycamore tree that produces perfectly round little nuts – about the size of peas. These peas fall onto our roof periodically (a couple every minute or so) and then we hear them rolling off the roof. Thus…“THWAK…and ROLL”. The noise is a bit disconcerting! Tomorrow we head for Organ Pipe Desert Campground, where I am sure that if anything is landing on our roof, we will be “OUTA THERE!”

We expect to be out of any wifi or data range for the next week to 10 days, but we will bring you up to speed when we return to Rivers Edge – and before we head to Lake Havasu City State Park where we have reservations on March 22.

Love and best wishes to all!

Tony and Sandy