February 23, 2019 Glad To Be On Bikes Again

Day 4 Arizona West RV Park Yuma, Arizona

We woke up and it was sunny with NO wind!! It was even supposed to get past 60 degrees today! We packed lunch and headed to the West Wetland Park to go bicycling.

With all the recent rain, the Lower Colorado River was up much higher than it was a couple of weeks ago.

We rode through the park and out to the gravel canal roads where we road among the farm fields. These were organic fields…they smelled organic too!

Lunch spot.

On the bike path we met a couple riding a tandem bike. Ben and Sue were here visiting from Michigan. They were in Tucson but when it began to snow there, they decided to move further south to Yuma…seeking sun and warm weather. We were all so grateful to be out in warm sunshine! Ben and Sue had a story uncannily similar to ours. Ben owned an asphalt construction company. His wife helped with the business even though she really didn’t enjoy it because she was a nurse! They recently retired and bought an RV. This is their second trip. The four of us chatted for a long time. We talked about our children and grandchildren…we had so much in common!

We decided to ride through the Riverfront RV Park. They had some interesting stuff there!

Even though we had ridden our bikes here a couple of times before, we found a whole new section of park along the river to enjoy.

This is what wetlands reclamation looks like. The area has been planted with native trees in an effort to restore the habitat.

This has been successful in other areas of the park. This is a work in progress as they work hard to return the environment to its previous state of health.