SUNDAY FUN

Started out at Day Breaker's for breakfast and then on to caching. A Team Yuma was headed for new territory, well at least for this year. First stop was a housing development then on to Adair Road. It was a busy place, lot of cachers out for the day. Thank goodness we ran into Bill and Berta, they helped us out on a couple we were having problems with.

The first pix is of "The bridge to nowhere"

Yuma, Arizona

This 800-foot-long suspension bridge spanned the Gila River when it was built in 1929, and was named McPhaul Bridge in honor of Henry Harrison McPhaul, "the only Yuma resident who ever became an Arizona Ranger." But it was considered to be too flimsy for modern traffic, and when a dam was built upstream in 1968 the river was diverted and the highway was rerouted over a much smaller bridge. This ultimately proved unwise, as a flood in 1993 destroyed the new bridge while the Bridge to Nowhere, with its broad span and high clearance, probably would have been just fine.

McPhaul Bridge crosses only desert sand and rocks these days, but the Arizona air has kept it remarkably intact. It would have been a fine location for a post-Apocalyptic Charlton Heston film....

It was a fun day but by 1ish we were ready to had home. It is now Monday and it is 68 on its way to 78 for the day. I am glad the wind has finally stopped and it is warming up.

New week an not much planned as of now. W does have a Dr appointment for tomorrow, will go with him if I get up and move around early enough. More later when we do something, I am trying to be better about taking pix's. Once again these are taken with my GPS.

Later B