Yuma, Arizona

We're working our means through the American Southwest. This week, it's Yuma equally nosotros run our means over into Arizona. Yuma is at the convergence of California, Arizona, too Mexico...

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In the old days, cowboys would come upwardly hither looking for a skillful saloon, a bath, too mayhap somebody to pass the black with.  Today, we’re looking for a total breakfast, a large room with a comfortable bed, too a skillful wifi connection.

Near the western cease of town, reminders of the old days sit down across the state highway from each other. The Territorial Prison on a bluff looking over the Colorado River held the area's ne'er produce wells inside its thick, stone walls.  Those who were to a greater extent than upstanding…or mayhap simply lucky at non beingness caught…would guide maintain a mutual frigidity beer land playing cards across the means at Lute's Casino.

For this trip, our hotel would hold out the Springhill Suites, simply off of Interstate 8 at the 16th Street exit.  Our room would hold out a large, semi-suite with a living room too a divide chamber expanse with a king-size bed.  There is also a full-size sofabed inwards the living room.  The bath is large.  You guide maintain your selection of a tub too bath chair, or a roll-in shower.


We don't bespeak a roll-in too thus nosotros opt for the tub.

The  $81 charge per unit of measurement includes a full, hot breakfast.  No i would fault it for gourmet, but the eggs, sausage, toast, too waffles are skillful too wholesome.


Nearby is roughly other alternative, the La Fuente Inn too Suites where the cost is virtually the same, the suites are actually large rooms, it's non quite equally accessible (no roll-in showers), but they produce offering a corking hot breakfast, guide maintain a actually fun happy hr each night, too a beautiful puddle area.

Seven miles to the west, dorsum inwards California, nosotros start the trip past times walking over the edge to United Mexican States inwards Los Algodones.  A medical tourism hotspot catering to snowbirds, today we're simply making a fast shopping trip to larn roughly great, inexpensive premium tequila too roughly medicines to stock upwardly our medicine cabinet with.  Letty also gets roughly large bottles of vanilla for cooking.

Back inwards Yuma, a trip to the old territorial prison is inwards order.  At a cost of $8, it's non cheap, but what a footstep dorsum inwards time.  Walking through the sally port, yous run across the massive, Fe reinforced adobe walls.  Other parts of the prison theatre role corporation stone walls v feet thick.

Small cells with chamber pots delineate of piece of occupation the corridors.  Some guide maintain rings embedded into the solid seat down to chain the prisoners inwards place.  The black cell, used for punishment, is indeed a scary place.  An Fe grid on the flooring outlines the spot where the quondam cage was.  It is imperative to spotter your footstep inwards this black room.

The entire complex, relieve for i cell, is accessible to wheelchairs but roughly parts may hold out bumpy.

For dinner, nosotros become over the state highway to Lute's where nosotros sit down with the memorabilia hanging throughout the room.  Dinner this evening is the Lute's special, which is a cheeseburger topped with a sliced hot dog.  It's good, cheap, too form of a gutbuster.

The Sun comes upwardly piece of cake hither inwards the winter…Arizona does non participate inwards daylight savings time.  At 7:15 inwards the morning, the showtime rays popular upwardly over the eastern mountains.  We guide maintain a concluding breakfast at the hotel earlier packing it upwardly too heading dorsum on the road.


Editor's note:  You may also desire to persuasion our previous reports for this destination.  We took another, to a greater extent than extensive, trip hither inwards October.  The links are below:
Medical Tourism - Los Algodones, Mexico
Medical Tourism - Yuma, Arizona

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