We spent the morning looking around the San Diego.

We wandered around the old town and had some mexican food for lunch.

Old Town San Diego

Then we ventured into the Gaslamp quarter. We weren’t going to stop, but I saw a Sketchers store and really wanted to buy some new trainers. They are very cheap here, over half the price from NZ.

Driving in to San Diego

After San Diego we navigated to a Walmart (like The Warehouse) as we needed so get some camping supplies (Tent, pot, blanket etc). Just a few blocks from the gaslamp quarter were all the homeless people. They had there tents set up on a bridge. It was a bit like a gypsy community. The Walmart was right next to this lot so we decided to lock the car doors and drive on.

The drive to Yuma, Arizona was like driving through a massive quarry. There were mountains of rocks, wind turbines and Sand dunes.

Heading towards the mountains of rock

Mountains of rocks

Wind Turbines everywhere

We are right on the Mexican border. We didn’t exit though,

We arrived in Yuma, Arizona at around 5.30pm, got out of our airconditioned car and we were struck by the heat. It was HOT. We had gone from low 20’s in San Diego to 37 degrees! We went out to sit by the Pool at 9pm and it was still just as hot.

We stayed at the Radisson and got a really good price. It was about a third of the price of San Diego and even had free washing machines and dryers. So our clothes got a well deserved wash 🙂

We were just in time for happy hour, so we had a couple of budweisers at the bar.