Well, this was a lucky save to plans gone wrong! I was disappointed Kennie couldn't make it, and hesitant to leave Tucson because it was a great campground and an easy driving city (like Phoenix, it's on a grid with wide streets well marked). But Yuma turned out to be great also. I left Tucson about 10 am yesterday, made a couple short stops to look for possible side trips (passed the Painted Petroglyphs, decided a look at them on the iPad was good enough) and arrived in Yuma about 2:30 MST, then crossed the Colorado River to get to the campground and that put me in California on Pacific Time. Apparently, a left turn would have taken me into Mexico in a few miles. I've learned that a lot of Americans come here to go to Mexico for medical/dental care, paying cash, for 1/3 the price of care in US. The history of Yuma developed due to it's location near the narrowing of the Colorado, which made for safest crossing of the river anywhere in US - creating a trail for the California gold rush explorers and many California settlers after. I, of course, was attracted to their historical Yuma Territorial Prison!!! But I get ahead of myself! My GPS led me directly to the wrong RV Campground - lots of detours at this freeway exit and two roads on the map say Winterhaven Rd (not sure how that happens since there are only about 6 roads in this town)! But I knew this campground was supposed to be on the river, and GPS was not showing me that. I finally did some internet searches and found the right campground - good thing because the views here are incredible, and the ficus trees are huge, leafy, shade providers, and there is actually water in the Colorado River (I was a little skeptical after seeing all the dry river beds in Tucson!). Now, it's not as big as you would think for being the Colorado River, but I read that the size is dramatically reduced since so many dams have been built upriver. However, Rivers Edge RV Resort has their RV's arranged so that at the end of every row dead ends into a long path running parallel to the river, with many decks and seating areas along the way for you to enjoy the view. Across the river is a beautiful wetlands park owned by the city of Yuma, so very pretty as well. Apparently, Yuma is one of the hottest places in the US, so becomes very full in winter, but is rapidly clearing out this month (rate was $35/NT with GS card) as the summer becomes intolerable! It's been 90 degrees during the day, 60 at night. When I pulled into the campground, I was looking for pet sitters, but found a business card for Advanced Window Repair, saying they specialize in long crack repair. My windshield crack is about 18 inches long and insurance said deductible would be $750 and windshield would have to be replaced. Well, I have heard some people say it's fine to leave it, and then a couple who said they would hurry to replace it, but I keep thinking I may have many more nicks to this windshield before I get home, so I hate to repair now. So I called Dan and he swears that he is able to stop about %80 of these cracks, and his work is completely guaranteed, he will mail me a refund check instantly if crack worsens. He is also a snowbird, comes to Yuma every winter to do windshield repairs, then drives back to Des Moines, Iowa next week for the summer. So I paid him $175 for the repair, which took him about 1.5 hours to do, and told him I could hunt him down in Iowa if he is giving me a line!!! But I feel better, hoping it has some added strength for the trip. During all this, all the neighbors came over to see his work (I think I could learn this skill, and he says he has trained a lot of people to do it already...new career for the road?) so I met the people from Idaho (here to get dental work done in Mexico) and the couple across the road with some very sweet dogs, who came over and ate Sara's dinner (the dogs, not the couple :). This morning, I was up to call a doggie daycare I found on the Internet - they could take Sara, so I set off to check it out. It was a bit rough looking, but had great parking for the RV, and seemed very flexible about letting Sara stay wherever she was comfortable, not in a crate! Except for the huge turtle walking around the office, I thought it would work!! So I left her, and drove back to see Yuma Territorial Prison State Park - I loved it!! A movie gave me some interesting facts: established 1875 when Tucson got a university, Prescott got to be the capital, and Phoenix was supposed to get the state prison, but some slight of hand by a local politician brought the prison to Yuma! It was considered a "humane" prison, with library, hospital, education for prisoners (taught them Spanish or German languages!), and even started accepting women, once even having a female prisoner give birth to a baby boy in prison (child remained there with mother until age 2 when they released the mother for the good of the child - how humane!). But the Dark Cell and the other cells, did not look so humane, and imagining that the temps here in summer reach 120 degrees +, does not sound so humane! Some criminals were simply Mormon polygamists, some horse thieves, and bank robbers, and some crimes of passion for unfaithful lovers (that would be Elena who murdered her boyfriend and did seven years in this prison). It now has a beautiful view of the Colorado River and the Riverwalk parks below, and they have yoga classes in the guard tower at 6pm! The RV had a great parking lot, so I got my bike off and rode the River Trail along the river for a couple miles (could see my RV park across the river) and saw wonderful parks, playgrounds, and beaches along the trail. Then I headed inland, and took the city streets into historic downtown, a very cute Western town, well renovated, but pretty slow moving now - perfect for my biking and would have been easy to drive the RV in. They have a live theater and movie theaters, a brewery and winery, and some shops. I rode until 3 pm, then had to take the uphill road back to the prison, where I loaded on the bike, and drove back to get gas and Sara! She survived the experience, and didn't harm the turtle, so all is well! Home again, talked to the neighbors, who always come out to help me back into my spot, and then hit the books and Internet to figure out tomorrow. Someone had told me about Lake Havasu State Park, but that was completely booked so I got a reservation at Cat Tail State Park at Lake Havasu - we'll see! I got 2 nights with only water/electric so hope I like it! I had cable here, but I got 0 channels when I scanned; with the antenna, I scanned 8 channels, all Spanish speaking! Still working on my grapefruits from the Tucson KOA and the brownies I had to make late last night - was celebrating Linda's birthday by eating brownies in her honor!! And for special good measure, had another for breakfast today!!! Made some appointments for RV repairs, oil change, etc in Phoenix next week - plan to get there by Saturday and spend a few weeks visiting family and getting RV in order.