AZ

CIBOLA NWR 5.

Day 125 – We’ve been gone from home in NY for slightly over 4 months now. We’ve spent the last month in Arizona. Tomorrow we cross the border into California. We’ll be doing a major restocking of food and supplies while we are there, in addition to visiting friends and family.

PETE GOES KAYAKING.

Day 124 – Pete has become quite the kayaking dog! He had an exciting paddle today and behaved like a champ. The high today was 85 degrees. We went out in our kayaks with Cathie and Pete in the morning before it got too hot. It was perfect out at that time.

CIBOLA NWR 4.

Day 123 – It was a hot one today – 85 degrees, sunny without much of a breeze. We took a couple of drives – having the windows down helped with the heat. We went into the small town of Palo Verde to get gas in the Honda – $5.39 per gallon! Yikes!

HAPPY SECOND BIRTHDAY, CHARLOTTE!

CIBOLA NWR 3.

Day 122 – The high today was 82 degrees, sunny with a nice breeze. We spent the morning working on reservations for the next portion of our trip. Many places were booked up. We successfully found a couple of places to stop over between this campground and southern California.

CIBOLA NWR 2.

Day 121 – The high today was 83 degrees with full sun. It cools off rapidly as soon as the sun goes down but is warm enough to not use the heat most nights. And most of the time there is a nice breeze. Spring appears to have already arrived here. During the day, a Hawk replaced the Heron in the tree outside our RV – guess it’s a great viewing point of the water below.

CIBOLA NWR 1.

Day 120 – This morning we went to Cibola National Wildlife Refuge; we saw lots of birds in 2018 when we were here previously and hoped to do the same this year. Today we were there about 2 hours and had only gone about 1/10 of this section of the Refuge because we spent lots of time on the 1-mile hiking trail. Were we successful? Yep.

TRAVEL DAY

From: Desert View RV Resort, Needles, CA.

To:Oxbow Recreation Area BLM Campground – Cibola National Wildlife Refuge, Cibola, AZ.

Day 119 – We departed Desert View RV Resort at 9 a.m. (Pacific Standard Time) and drove south near the California/Arizona border for most of the trip, crossing back into AZ (and Mountain Standard Time) right before reaching our destination near the Cibola National Wildlife Refuge.