Parker, AZ

Spent our first night out of Las Vegas on the Colorado River near Parker AZ. After our first flat just north of Lake Havusa. What a crazy night, stormy heat lightening all around with that kind of funny rain that seems to fall in giant drops, but never quite gets the ground wet. Regardless, the powerful smell of wet desert rose around us all through the night.
Waking at 4AM so that we didn't have to drive in the heat, we head off to Yuma to look for a new tire. It seems the big hunk of metal that flattened our tire could not be fixed as it had cut through too many of the cables that hold the whole thing together. Knowing we were heading into the back roads of Baja in a few days, we found a spot in Yuma that had a new one.
Calexico-
After a yuma morning, we drove on to Calexico. Planning to spend the night in a hotel, we bought our insurance got back to the car, looked at the clock and said- what the hell, it's only 2 hours to San Felipe, let's go!