Monday, March 12, 2007
Oxbow BLM Campground, Palo Verde, CA - March 8-10
We had another "moving day incident". As we were coming into Salton City, we hit a series of road undulations that caused our truck and trailer to buck violently, and even though we Velcro our kitchen cabinets closed, one popped open, spilling our dishes out. They are Corelle, but we still lost a bowl, a bread plate & two salad plates. When it does break, Corelle shatters into a million TINY pieces! We discovered the loss when we pulled into the Imperial Sand Dunes overlook. Southern California has some of the most diverse terrain in the world, including this 250-sq-mi field of sand, sand, and more sand. Off-road vehicles seem to be the only sign of life in this barren landscape.This was our second time at Oxbow CG; the first was right after Quartzsite in 2004, and we enjoyed a few days of quiet with a couple of other lazy campers. The cg is now being renovated, which means that the word has gotten out; the cg was mostly full, with lots of families with boats. The setting is still nice, on an oxbow-lake of the Colorado River formed after the state line was set, so the cg is in AZ even though it is west of the Colorado.
We drove to the Cibola NWR, but the weather was so hot and so dry that birds were practically non-existent. That evening we did manage to see an American bittern up close after it flew right over our trailer and landed on the bank of the oxbow.# posted by Doug and Willie @ 10:39 AM 
