We drove down to Yuma today and you feel like Arizona is just a big rock pile, stones and boulders everywhere. Yuma is beside the Colorado River in the southwest corner of AZ, the best place to cross this river since pre-historic times. The first railway bridge was in 1877. The 'Ocean to Ocean' highway bridge was built in 1915.
This town is recognized by the Guinness book of World Records as the sunniest place on earth with 339 bright days per year and less than 3 inches of rainfall annually. Normal Jan temperatures are 70 degrees. It's called the lettuce capital of the world and they get 4 crops off each field a year. It's fun being up high in the Motorhome and seeing the fields and irrigation systems.
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