Easter with Friends in Yuma, AZ

Here we are at the Mexican border again, this time in Yuma, AZ. We came here via a one-week stop at one of our all-time favorite places in Cottonwood, AZ, just a few miles south of the beautiful red rock country of Sedona. We spent the winter of 2007-2008 here, and can't seem to get enough of it. Yuma also gives us another shot at a Mexican border crossing at Algodones for meds and tequila.

We are having Easter dinner with more great friends met thru our boating life, Len and Connie Martin, late of Brunswick, GA. A couple of years ago, Len took a job as manager of the Lower Colorado River Region of the Bureau of Reclamation (what a mouthful) which controls the quality and distribution of area water to all users - a really important job for a boat bum. It is really a complicated activity. Len and Connie also took us on a drive along the local section of fencing and other devices to prevent illegal border crossing. We had seen portions of the fence down along the Rio Grande in the Texas Valley, but this section stretches continuously from the Pacific Ocean to ... Driving right next to it here (just a few feet away) gives us a whole new appreciation for why they decided to do things like build it a few hundred yards on our side of the border (don't think anyone is really going to throw a ladder up against it,) but as Len points out, they make a bunch of dumb decisions too.

Connie prepared a wonderful standing rib roast and all the fixings for our dinner. It was the highlight of our four-day visit here. Can't wait to come back. Old boating friends are the best.