Don't fence me in

We stayed in Yuma an extra day, again because of wind.  This is obviously not the part of the country for wind phobic Dalton!!

I forgot to show you the picture of a golf course that I took north of Quartzsite.  We couldn’t stop to get pictures of the craziest tees.  There would be a little natural mound (I don’t know how they got up to them.) and the tee would be on the top.  I think it would be an interesting golf course to play.  Ity might be difficult to use a golf cart though.

Yesterday we saw the Yuma Territorial Prison.  It was used from 1876 to 1909.  Then (if you can imagine) it was used as a high school from 1910 to 1914.

Today we went to the Quartmaster Depot State Historic Park which supplied the military posts in the Arizona Territory from 1864.  The railroad coming to the area in 1883 brought an end to this function but it then served as the headquarters for building the area’s canals and dams.  There is a very extensive canal system around Yuma that serves the city and the agricultural lands around it.

We also went to the old Yuma downtown.  We stopped at a famous bar for a beer ( Jimmie D’s) and looked at all the old stuff on the walls.  We then walked around but there was little to see except a few shops.  They don’t seem to have done a very good job of getting the people who come for the winter to go downtown.  As in other places in Yuma, there were lots of empty stores and buildings.  Actually we have seen this from Texas on west.  The downturn in the economy has hit hard.