Our Drive Southeast to Yuma, Arizona

This is the last leg of the drive to Yuma, Arizona.  

Today's three-hour drive

 starts on Interstate 10 East.

Indio

We take the ramp to

California State Route

86 East.

Coachella City Limit

Population 40, 517 

Elevation 71 Feet

The Festival is set for

April 15 - 24, 2022.

End Freeway

We appreciate the warnings 

of upcoming traffic lights.

Date Palms reach for the sky.

Orange Trees 

Religious artwork & graffiti

decorate this section of

a rocky hill.

I think about Salvation Mountain near...

... the Salton Sea.

Its environmental struggles

continue.

Scrubby plants and bushes grow in this section of the Mohave Desert.  

Baled hay waits at the edge

of a field for transport.

We drive along California

State Route 78 East.

My guess is this is a refinery.

Eric turns onto California

State Route 111 South.

Sheep in a nearby field

Eric wants to add a bottle

of Fuel Additive.

A note will help us

remember to add it.

Interstate 8 East will
take us to Yuma.

Water spouts arc across 

the field.

I wonder if spray irrigation will be replaced by drip irrigation as the severe drought in the Southwest continues.

RVs, with ATVs, come to the

 Algodones Dunes to ride on

the soft sand.

Eric pulls over & gets the

Diesel Fuel Additive from

a lower bay in the

motorhome.

An irrigation canal snakes

through the desert, near

the dunes.

We pass a tractor-trailer 

hauling Romaine Lettuce.

The Southwest is our country's Winter Salad Bowl.

Felicity

Population 2

Elevation 280 Feet

The Center of the World

is within Felicity's

borders.

Welcome to Arizona

The Grand Canyon State

The Yuma Water Storage

Tanks

Eric adds the Diesel Fuel

Additive before filling

the motorhome's 100

gallon tank.

Eric and I are staying in Yuma until at least late March.  

Suni Sands RV Resort is

our favorite place to stay.