It's HOT in Yuma!! Now I know why the Snowbirds haven't arrived yet! 94-97 degrees, I spend my days drenched in sweat and slathered in sunscreen. Spent 8 days at the lovely Best Western, picked up the RV today, working out the kinks still. Had a great time shopping in Yuma, all the stores have winter clothes out: gloves, sweaters, boots! Ha! All the summer stuff is on clearance, I got all new summer clothes at thrift store prices!
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| Apparently Yuma is lettuce capital of the US, I was expecting just desert! |
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| Lunch in Algodones, Mexico, finally! |
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| They only have sweet tea, ick! |
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| Very good but Gringo prices. |
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| Lots of retirees wandering around! |
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| Dental offices everywhere! |
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| Mike's $6 hair cut, "best haircut ever". |
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| Street scene in Algodones |
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| My $5 haircut, got my money's worth! |
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| One box of Lantus pens, $75 |
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| One Humalog Kwik Pen $12 |
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| We paid too much for our haircuts! |
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| Had a fishbowl margarita, a diet coke, chips and salsa for $5 |
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| I bought a bottle of generic lipitor, 100 10 mg tablets for $12, just for fun! You can buy most anything over the counter, lots of people walking around with purple plastic bags of pills, no hassles at US customs. |
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| Yuma sunrise |
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| Lots of these flowering bushes everywhere! |
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| Split this dessert at Quechan casino. Nice place! Mike won! |
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| The Quechan tribe owns this parking lot right next to Algodones border, $6 to park all day. |
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| Walking to the border. When you go through the turnstile there's no one there! Anyone can just walk right in to Mexico! |
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| ATM machine at the border, looks sketchy! |
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| Fascinating! and the spelling is sometimes comical. |
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| Shrimp cocktail on a street corner, YUM! $7.50 but worth it.We ate 3 times in Algodones, drank the water, did not get sick! |
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This girl is a born salesperson, super persistent, I think I bought a bracelet from her, she suddenly became shy and giggly when I took her picture, hiding behind her Icee.
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So that was how we spent our week in Yuma. The insulin prices are so much cheaper than in the US! Mike got new eyeglasses, should have been $119 for everything but his RX from Sandpoint had changed. Every where you go in Algodones someone is trying to lure you into their dental office, like they are selling drugs on the corner, "hey, Lady, you need your teeth cleaned? Only $20". Anyways here is an interesting discussion w/pics of Algodones dentists! (Copy and paste)
http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=50096&page=1
Look here for reviews of Dentists in Algodones: http://www.dentaldepartures.com/dentists/mexico/los-algodones/
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