Yuma, Arizona

This is the bridge at Yuma Crossing that crosses the Colorado River into California.

This is the Colorado and on the other side is California.

I couldn't help taking a picture of  thie shrub with all it's blossoms.

We visited the Yuma Territorial Prison.  The first 7 inmates entered on July 1, 1876.  It was totally built by the inmates.  It housed a total of 3,069 prisoners including 39 women in the 33 years of operation.  A third of it needed to be torn down to build the bridge around 1909.  This is the guard tower built on top of the water tank to prevent evaporation.

Here are the prison cells, some had 6 bunks and weren't any bigger than 8x10.  Most had double doors.

This is where they put prisoners who tried to escape or do something else they shouldn't have done.  It was a very small room, totally dark, with a leg iron in each corner.

Here is where they kept the female prisoners.

We crossed over to California to see the sand dunes.  They were just awesome.

You can see all the dune buggy tracks.  I guess its like snowmobiling at home.

See the dune buggy flying a red flag way over to the left.

If you enlarge this you'll see a bunch of RVs each with several dune buggies.  I guess this place is really busy on the week-end.  We were there early Friday, before the crowds.

We found  this neat little diner.  Its easily acccessible by dune buggy.

There were several table outside with a roof made of something like fish net.

It had a fire pit in the middle and a bar over to the right.

Don had his eye on this dune buggy until he found out it sells for about $130,000.  It had broken down and needed to be towed to a repair shop where it would cost close to $12,000 for a new transmission.  Oooops, too expensive a hobby for our wallet.

(And there's Bruno sniffing the logs.)