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Arizona Bound - Winter Getaway

oldhippie

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I officially retired the end of January 2018 and after taking a drive down to Arizona that month we got back with plans to get away from some of this Manitoba winter again this year. So we bought a Toy Hauler last summer and now have the bike loaded up ready to go for February. Hope the weather holds up for the drive and I can get some riding in when we hit the warmer weather.
 
I agree with Jeff, we flew down a couple February's ago for a friends wedding and rented a bike, great tee shirt riding weather.
 
We made it there and back without much trouble. As luck would have it we were driving against the south wind on the way there and Mother Nature had the twisted sense of humor to have us coming back with a northwest wind. Tempted to turn around and go back when we hit South Dakota since temps started dropping from there and kept dropping i all the way home.
Managed to get in a little riding while camped for 15 days in Winterhaven, California just across the river from Yuma. The first 4 days in Arizona we'd camped just out of Apache Junction but the weather wasn't the best and couldn't get a decent campsite to make it worth off loading the bike.
While around Yuma we stopped in at the Yuma Territorial Prison, the Yuma Proving Grounds military museum, Cloud Museum (antiques cars) in Bard California, Castle Dome Museum and even walked across to Algodones Mexico for some shopping. Found out my wife's idea of a short ride wasn't the same as mine when we took a ride up to Quartzsite. Her backside was a little numb by the time we got back to our camp site.
Still chuckle about the sales pitch from one young lady in Algodones. She told me the vests and t-shirts were "rain proof and bullet proof". So I said while laughing "you mean to tell me they'll stop a bullet". She said "sure, we can try them out. If it works I'll give you your money back".
Lots of pictures taken and uploaded to my facebook page but still need to download to my computer to resize for this site.

We're talking of going for 3 months next winter so we'll see if that works out.
 
Sounds like a great time.
We rode to Apache Junction, after checking out the place we found a couple spots at the saloon and had a couple barley pops.
We also rode to Hoover Dam and a few other places when we were in Pioria for a brother's wedding a couple years ago.
Looking forward to seeing the pictures when you post them.
 
The first and third are from the campsite in Usery Recreational Park just outside Apache Junction Arizona. Really nice campground. Yes that's my ugly mug with the other pics taken just north of Winterhaven California on the way to Bard.
 

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Pictures from the Cloud Museum in Bard California.
 

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