February 3 - 4, 2015 (Patagonia Lake State Park, AZ)

Tuesday

Since we had such a pleasant experience at Catlina State Park, we decided to try another state park - Patagonia Lake State Park.  It wasn't too far down the road so we weren't in a really big hurry which was a good thing since we didn't actually leave our site until 11:30 a.m.  It seemed the morning was full of visitors and some phone calls.  

The drive was pretty uneventful until we got to the little town of Patagonia.  As we were leaving town the road was horrible....just full of potholes.  There was road construction going on in the other lane, they were busy filling all the potholes, they just hadn't gotten to our side yet.  Boy that sure slowed us down a bit.  We finally got passed all the potholes and found the turnoff for the state park.  Hmmmm it's a tad bit hilly in this area with some pretty steep inclines, it will be interesting getting out of here, but we were committed and going forward because there was no place for us to turn around.  

After several miles of the curvy and steep hills, we got to the park entrance and got checked in.  We found our site and boy were we disappointed.....this is the first time in all our travels that the utility hookups were on the wrong side of the rv plus we were in a shared site, the only one in the whole park.  Now when we went online and made the reservations, they had a picture of the site with a little detail and nowhere in the picture or the detail was there made mention of the utility situation or that it was a shared site.  Oh well, it's only for two nights, I guess we will manage.  We always travel with plenty of water hose and we have a long electrical cord, so we can reach the utilities, we just have to run them under the coach.

Our site, you can see the utility hookups at the rear of the coach

Our site from the rear, you can see the coach next to us.  To be fair, we've been in full hookup rv parks and been this close to another rv.  It was just that all the other sites in the park had nice distance between them.

After we got setup, we took our walk through the park and the marina and chatted with a few folks.  The rest of the afternoon we just kicked back doing some reading, had dinner, took another walk in the evening and got a picture of the beautiful moon.

We were blessed with a beautiful full moon on our first night.

Wednesday

We had a pretty laid back start to our morning and after a late breakfast, I started work on our budget and Rich rode to the top of one of the hills coming into the park to make a phone call.  We have very sketchy cell service tucked down here in these hills.  I also started waxing the wood inside the rv.  It is amazing being down here in this dry climate how quickly the wood dries out.  I can't imagine leaving our coach down here all summer since it has so much wood inside of it.

After lunch, we took a bike ride around the park and took a few pictures.....

Tall bridge that spans the channel the boats from the marina travel through to get out into the lake.  It was one tall bridge, you can barely see me at the top of it.

View from the top of the bridge looking back at the marina and boat launch area.

View of one side of the lake taken from the top of the bridge

View of the lake in the other direction and see how steep this bridge really is...

View of the lake at dusk.  It really was pretty with lots of birds flying around before settling in for the night and lots of crickets.  We stood here for quite awhile waiting for the moon to rise, but soon the bats came out and started flying around, and then I was ready to go back to the rv.  I know, I know....bats are very good at eating lots of pesky insects, but I still am frightened of them.

We had a nice kick back day hanging out at Patagonia Lake State Park but would we ever return?  Not sure....maybe in a smaller rv and with some sort of boat so you could enjoy being out on the water and definitely not in site 36 or 37.  =)

Tomorrow we head back to Yuma for a couple more weeks.  We've enjoyed our little jaunt and loved seeing some different areas of Arizona.