Yuma, Arizona

We drove from San Diego to Yuma yesterday as we slowly work our way back to Boise by April 1.

As we drove along Interstate 8 we came within a quarter mile of the USA – Mexico border.

As we drove along, I kept thinking of one of the funniest skits I ever saw on Saturday Night Live.  Tina Fey was Sarah Palin and Amy Poehler was Hillary Clinton. When talking about diplomacy qualifications, ‘Sarah’ implied she was qualified because she could see Russia from her house.

Yesterday, I kept mimicking Fey’s Palin impersonization, “I can see Mexico from my house.” Because, you see, I could actually see it and I was in my house (Homer). 🙂

Along the drive we also saw some amazing rock formations in the Cleaveland National Forest.

And we saw miles of sand in the Imperial Sand Dunes area, the largest mass of sand dunes in the state .  The dunes, which start near the Salton Sea, run for more than 40 miles and average five miles wide.

We started at an elevation of near sea level in Santee, topped out at 3000 feet above sea level in the Cleveland Mountains, and bottomed out at 200 feet less than sea level in El Centro, California…

I felt right at home in Yuma as soon as I hit the pickleball courts in the near 90 degree heat… 🙂