Who Is Walking In That Field? Arizona

Water Irrigating Canal, San Luis, AZ 02/25

Colorado River State Historic Park in historic downtown Yuma, Arizona. The admission to the museum was $10.00 each. The ranger was very nice, gave good instructions to Kevin with a map, and then went to check if the films were captioned. Yes! This place gets an A. We saw 4 different rooms/buildings with films and all were captioned. We learned there are over 230,000 irrigated acres just in Yuma Valley! There are over 2500 semi trucks out of here each day (and that film was about 10 years old).

We had read about the big siphon project here and wanted to learn more about it. Turns out…it confuses us! The siphon goes under the river! Why not just make a canal? Hum… It was neat to see the original buildings here along the river. Oh but the river used to get to be 10 miles wide sometimes. Now? It doesn’t even go to the sea! We had no idea! We were there about 4 hours. This is a history of Yuma

Crops & Palm Trees Growing in Somerton, Near Yuma, AZ 02/25

The next day we went to find a farmers market. Online Kevin found one off of exit 2. This wasn’t what we wanted at all. There were maybe 15 booths and only one had veggies and they were packaged like from the store. We decided to go back to Arizona Market Place where we went with friends a few weeks ago. We found the veggie booth where Chris told us they get a lot of things there. I got some yummy looking romaine, green beans, green onions, all colors peppers, roma tomatoes, and Kevin thew in the cart some roasted peanuts. We took them out to the truck and then continued walking around. Kevin insisted we go to Bonnies Fabric On Wheels Quilt Shop again. He wanted me to buy something. We both found some fun material that reminds him of tropic colors. I wanted 1 yard each of the 4 bolts and he, being his awesome husband, got me 3 yards of each. So sweet. Of course, he is always the hero in the store and rightly so! HAHA (You can see what I made with the fabric in last week’s post.) We walked around bit more and Kevin found some bungie cords he wanted for the ham radio antenna. Then we were done. 

We went home (footnote 1) and put the veggies in the fridge and then drove down the frontage road to LaDonna’s Mexican Restaurant. I was so impressed! Very clean, workers wearing gloves when handling all food including putting chips in the baskets, etc. Our server was just perfect and professional. Kevin told him as we were leaving that we eat out a lot and he is the best server we have had in a long time. The guy was so happy and Kevin even heard him telling is coworkers. HA Cute! The food was delicious and very authentic. I had chicken burrito but it was rolled more like an enchilada, and a “hand fold over plate” what was a taco on a taco stand. The green sauce was sweet and perfect. Kevin ordered fish fajitas. The cook got it wrong, the server said, and cooked shrimp. Kevin said that as fine and he brought out the shrimp. Perfectly cooked. Soon the server brought out the plate of fish, too. We had never seen a fillet of fish for fajitas. Kevin said both were excellent but liked the texture of the shrimp even more. Back home, we sat outside in the shade and read our books.

Sometimes we like to find the local library and hang out inside. The Foothill branch is new looking, large, and lovely. We spent some good time there. I looked at a quilting magazine and then found Arizona Highways magazine. I was hooked! The editor and authors are detailed and so informative. Love the photography.

Just outside of Yuma, at Somerton, is the Cocopah Museum. This is an Indian Reservation. On the drive we saw so many acres of things growing. This museum was part of the offices for the reservation. The building was new-looking. The museum was free (we left donation) and no pictures allowed. The displays were behind large glass and had life-like people. It showed some of their games, the clothes, and the life. We walked outside and to another room where on the walls were excerpts from Arizona Highways Magazine – the one I found at the library! The writing is excellent and you really feel what they are saying. The last one displayed was in 1970. We wondered if the people still felt the oppression, still didn’t stay in school, etc. Kevin asked the young lady at the small gift shop how it is today. She said things are really great for the tribe now. The casino helps bring in a lot of money. 

This is Arizona Scarecrows! Out in the fields we saw haz-mat looking suits on sticks. It looked like people walking. HA

1. “Home” is where we park it. Home is our 2022 Alliance Avenue, 36 ft, 5th wheel.