We woke to overcast skies and cold rain after a gloriously sunny but windy day yesterday.
By late morning, and given the high winds advisory published for the next day, we decided to cut our stay in the Barry Goldwater AF Range short.
We left after 1 PM and were in the Yuma area about two hours later. As we all had chores to take care of in Yuma, we chose a couple of spots in a very crowded BLM area near the VFW location north of Fortuna Hill on the outskirts of Yuma.
It was crowded, noisy with passing trains and planes, but for one night it was fine.
Tuesday, February 14
Left the VFW BLM site just before 8AM to work on errands. The first one was signing up for storage for Scarlett, my 2014 Ural Patrol and the Aluma 638 trailer I use to haul the sidecar rig around on.
Shortly after 9AM the paperwork was done and I left Scarlett and trailer in storage for the next couple of months or so.
The Z's and I will be stashing more stuff into this space before we head south into Baja California next week.
Next was the printing of all the paperwork we needed to get a Tourist Visa aka FMM in order to be in Baja California. We also printed out the insurance policies we got for our respective rigs and TW200 motorcycles. Lots of money spent, but the chance to do this explorative travel into Baja with the Z's could not be passed up by me.
Final chore for the day was picking up pre-ordered Mexican Pesos from the Wells Fargo Bank. Nice exchange rate of almost 18 pesos to the dollar! I hope to be able to use the credit card where possible, but having cash will be handy I think.
I finished slightly ahead of the Z's with chores so I headed out to the Ogilby Road BLM Dispersed Camping site about 20 miles away. It's located just over the border between Arizona and California, so I made sure to gas up the VRRV before leaving Arizona!
Found a nice spot for our rigs and set up camp while awaiting the arrival of Lori and Chris:
Here's a time lapse of the above scene to show the fast moving cloud conditions we had this afternoon.
The above pics and movie were shot with my Pixel 4a's camera because I managed to drop and damage the 16-50mm stock lens that came with my Sony A6000! I was switching between it and my telephoto lens you see, clumsy!
The lens didn't crack but the housing split
and there was internal damage.
Luckily, the camera and lenses are covered by my existing insurance policy and they'll be cutting a check for me to cover the cost of my buying a replacement via Amazon.
The replacement lens will be here Friday this week so my clumsiness will not impact my ability to shoot pictures with the Sony camera while in Baja California.
As I typed this, strong winds and dust storms were buffeting the rigs! After the peak winds, I went out for some shots of the dust storm conditions.
Do you know which day and which border crossing you will be using? I head north from Mulege next Sunday to San Felipe, probably crossing in Mexicali on Monday as I left my truck and trailer in El Centro, CA.
Gas stations all take CC, so cash for small incidentals and taco stands. Hope you have a means to carry extra fuel too.
Bring your own bottled water. Tequila is cheap as is beer. The people are very nice, helpful and friendly.
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Do you know which day and which border crossing you will be using? I head north from Mulege next Sunday to San Felipe, probably crossing in Mexicali on Monday as I left my truck and trailer in El Centro, CA.
Gas stations all take CC, so cash for small incidentals and taco stands. Hope you have a means to carry extra fuel too.
Bring your own bottled water. Tequila is cheap as is beer. The people are very nice, helpful and friendly.
Safe travels if our paths don't cross.
Will email you the answers to your questions CCjon.
Have fun!!
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