Population: 95,548 Elevation: 141'
That population number grows a lot during the winter because of all the Snowbirds and RVer's.
This place sells lots: RV lots, RV lots with a casita, RV parking and a small house, and lots with larger (but still small) houses and no RV. There is a bunch of construction going on around us. The spot behind us is an RV spot that someone bought and is putting a low wall up around it and will probably pave the whole area. Our spot is just gravel and one small cement pad. We could buy it and that would include them building the little wall and paving the area. It would be more if we added a little casita. You could spend up to $300,000 to get an small house on one of these RV lots.
We are under a wind warning today and it is blowing about 20 mph with stronger gusts. There is also an air quality advisory because of all the blowing dust. This may not be one of our targets for a permanent residence. There are 170 days a year with the temperature over 90º.
The drive from Palm Springs to Yuma was not too bad. The road we took out of Desert Hot Springs took us the back way to Coachella. The road was a roller coaster of little hills. They did not try to level any of the hills out.
In most states, the bridges have a little sign up to tell you what body of water you are driving over. In the Mojave Desert you get bridges with little signs up to tell you what dry ditch or wash you are driving over. Yes, they name the ditches. Ditches are small and washes are bigger. Don't get caught in a wash during a flash flood.
Since we are now in a new state, I have made some updates to the website. I have added an Arizona photo page. There is nothing on it yet but a place holder picture but it is there and as soon as we get out and around Yuma, I will add more pictures. Yuma doesn't have the dramatic mountains in the background like Palm Springs did so I will not give you as many sunset pictures.
Speaking of Palm Springs. I still owe you one more blog from there. We did drive around Palm Springs looking at oldish houses. We saw Frank Sinatra's house (not impressed) and Dinah Shore's house (which now belongs to Leonardo DiCaprio and you can rent it for $3700 a night). We also took a trip to Joshua Tree National Park. The pictures are up on the California Photo page if you want to see them before I write the blog.
In beer news, I bottled the 2 batches I had fermenting. I ended up filling 6 bottles and one growler per batch. I have the growler for the Amber Ale in the refrigerator. It should be ready to drink by tomorrow. I have the growler for the IPA in the ice chest outside and I will probably wait a week to bring it inside because we don't have that much room in the fridge. I have enough empty bottles for 2 more batches of beer. If I brew one next week and one the week after that I should have at least one growler empty and ready to refill.
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