Several layers of clothing did not keep us warm this morning as Eagle took us on a long flight today.
Straight west we flew on I8 past 85 miles of mountain-lined desert.
At Quartzite we turned on AZ 95 and flew straight south through the same scenery
until just outside Yuma. There we crossed an irrigation canal that turned this area into farmland.
We passed miles of fields green with hay, vegetables
cotton
and citrus orchards. (For some reason the trees in this area are not pruned, but left to grow naturally.)
At the KOFA Escapees RV Club park we landed for an afternoon visit with our long-time biking buddies Brock and Leola.
They ride a Spyder. Brock gave us a hug but disappointed that we haven’t seen the light and still have the Harley. Leola couldn’t wait to give us a hug.
We were there not only to visit but to start to flesh out some details of our planned bike tour together up the west coast next summer. We also wanted see if we wanted to put the rv park on our list of possible places to “settle down” sometime in the future.
We walked the park, enjoyed the delicious lunch Leola cooked for us, made some concrete plans, and had a nice chat before we started our three hour flight back the way we came.
We were cold flying home too, but enjoyed watching the sunset turning the mountains red
and the clouds pink.
As we turned into our rv park back in Tonopah in the dark, the quarter moon peeked out of the clouds to say goodnight.
Back to normal tomorrow.
Louise and Duane
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