Where are Cheryl and Dennis?: Yuma - San Luis and Wellton

02-12-2019 - 2-21-2019

Tuesday – 2-12-2019 - Shared a wonderful dinner of barbecue spare ribs with Steve and Li. Dennis is becoming an expert at cooking ribs on our Traeger Smoker Grill. Later we were visited by Mike and Terry. They were spending their last night in Yuma then will be heading east to Tuscon then on to New Mexico. Safe travels Mike and Terri!

Monday – 2-18-2019 – Steve and Li left this morning. They have reservations at a park in Cedar Key Florida in a couple of weeks. They plan on taking a couple of weeks to get there which will include a stop at Big Bend National Park. Save travels Steve and Li!

Tuesday – 2-19-2019 – Today we visited another Mexican town just across the border. San Luis is south of Yuma about 15 miles and was an easy 26 mile drive from our park. There is one pay for parking ($6) lot near the entrance. Most of the streets were parked full, we assume for field workers. After driving around we found a spot on the street then walked about 6 blocks to the border entrance.

San Luis is nothing like Algodones. A fairly large town with quite a large down town area with lots of stores for purchasing everyday merchandise. Not the tourist shops you find in Algodones. We walked around and did some window shopping. A few blocks off of main street we found a nice central park. Around 11 o'clock the small sidewalk kiosks opened selling street food and trinkets. We stopped at a sidewalk food stand selling beef tacos and sheep stew. The stew looked good and I would have loved to try it but I typically do not like lamb so both Dennis and I opted for beef tacos. The corn tortilla shells were made to order from freshly made dough. Five tacos and a bottle of Coke was 120 pesos which comes out to around $6.50. We gave them $10 as we did not have the right change. Right around on the corner was a bakery. We stopped in and purchased two large cookies and three other treats for a cost of $2.76.

Wednesday – 2-20-2019 – Took a drive today to check out some other RV parks in the area. First we headed to Wellton, a small town 15 miles east of here. Here is some info on the parks we liked.

Rancho El Mirage – Wellton – $335 a month. This is a new park, only 3 years old, with 184 sites. There is a very nice clubhouse with nice amenities which include a heated pool and hot tub, 4 pickle ball courts, tennis court, shuffleboard, bocce ball, horseshoe pits, billiard room, bowling alley, exercise room and a very small laundry. The RV sites are very large as it was originally built for park models. There are a few park models in the park. As of our visit only about half of the sites were occupied. Apparently not all the sites have working electricity but they are working on getting them hooked up and inspected. Next year they should have another dozen or so sites available. A couple of things we did not like is there is not concrete pad on the sites and on some sites the electric pedestal is on the wrong side of the site. This means you need 40 to 50 feet of cord to reach the pedestal. The park has extra cords they will provide for a refundable $170 deposit. It was also a little sparse on trees and vegetation however we were told the new owner is going to work on this. Also this park is fairly close to the interstate so there is some highway noise.

Pioneer RV Park – Wellton – $360 a month. This is a little older park but not as old as most of the other parks in Wellton. It has 336 nice sized sites with nice amenities which include 2 pickle ball courts, shuffleboard, horseshoes, billiards and heated pool and hot tub. It was full at the time of our visit.

We also checked out a few of the RV parks in the Foothills area. Most of them are older parks with very small spaces or more expensive than the $675 we are paying here at Fortuna de Oro. We did find one that we really liked.

Carefree Village Resort – Yuma – $575 per month. This park is only 5 years old. Very nice clubhouse and amenities which include 8 pickle ball courts, 4 lane bowling alley, bocce ball, volley ball, horseshoes, billiards, and miniature golf. The sites are large as they are planned for future park models. Some sites have a concrete pad but some do not. The roads are all paved. This seemed like a very active park as when we visited around 2 in the afternoon there were lots of folks around. Some were playing pickle ball, there was a water volley ball game going on and the bowling alley was busy with a league.

The temperatures have been colder than normal here in Yuma. Highs only in the low 60's but lots of sunshine.

Where we are parked: Fortuna De Oro RV Park – Site 313 – This is a very large RV resort with all the amenities: Golf, boccie ball, shuffle board, pickle ball and tennis courts, two swimming pools, a restaurant and bar. Also lots of activities in one of several clubhouses. RV site rates: Daily $42, Weekly $275, Monthly $675 plus utilities. There are other rates for extended and fall only stays.

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