The Peanut Patch A historical landmark in Yuma consisting today of mainly a packaging facility and a store. The Patch used to grow peanuts for over 40 years and due to a white fly problem they stopped growing them and now purchase them from Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico. On
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SKP KOFA Ko-op Retreat – Yuma, AZ (Members Only)
KOFA Ko-op is an Escapees members only RV park about 8 miles south of Yuma out in the agricultural fields. We really don’t like staying at an RV Park in the city unless we have to so we decided to head a bit further south and try out this RV
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You know the old saying, “The more you learn, the less you know”. We feel almost the same way with Anza Borrego State Park, “The more we explore, the less we know.” We continue to find new and interesting places. This is maybe our 5th of 6th trip here and
Continue readingAnza Borrego State Park – Blair Valley
Blair Valley sits on the east side of S2 south of Hwy 78 in the Anza Borrego State Park and was once the home of Marshall South who lived with his family atop Ghost Mountain. The valley offers excellent dry camping and if your rig is a 4WD you can
Continue readingAnza Borrego State Park – Goat Trail Hike
After every hike we take I always say “Wow that was my favourite hike ever”. Well same with this hike. But then you go on the next hike and at the moment it seems like the best. It reminds me of the Annie Leibowitz quote when asked what her favourite
Continue readingAnza Borrego State Park – Wind Caves Hike
Wow, we finally made it here. Every year we try to get to the Wind Caves and we just never seem to have enough time. How is that? Anyway, we made it there. It was a bit of an overcast day with rain exepcted later that night so we thought
Continue readingAnza Borrego State Park – Cut Across Trail 4WD
Today we decided to take a rest from hiking and do some exploring. Off we went with not a real destination in mind but loaded up with maps, GPS, food, water, etc. and headed towards Arroyo Salado Palm Oasis. We headed out Highway 22 east to mile marker 38.4 and
Continue readingClark Dry Lake Oasis Hike – Borrego Springs, California
This is one of our favorite hikes while boondocking in the Clark Dry Lake area. It is an easy, almost flat, hike of about 8 miles roundtrip across Clark Dry Lake and over to the far side near the base of the mountains at a beautiful oasis (also known
Continue readingClark Dry Lake – Borrego Springs, California
Clark Dry Lake, also known as Rockhouse Canyon Road boondocking area or just “The Borrego Springs boondocking area” or sometimes people just say, “Oh you mean that area near Peg Leg?”. Yep, we are back. We were just here a little over a week ago and then went into
Continue readingAnza Borrego State Park – Alcoholic Pass And Ant Hill Hikes
We love hiking around Anza Borrego State Park. We have been to this area countless times before and feel like we have taken lots of hikes but there are always MORE to hike! I don’t think we will even finish exploring this area. What a wonderful feeling! Alcoholic Pass One
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