I love a long weekend. It's the only way I can make it through my job--looking forward to the next break. I had a great time honoring our nations presidents this year, by not going to work.
My friend Melissa's birthday was 2 days before, and she wanted to hike Telegraph to celebrate. Telegraph is "the" hike of Yuma. It's the one everyone does.
A view of Yuma from Telegraph.
Brooke, Melissa, Me
A view of the farms east of Yuma
After that, I went to Julian, CA with some buddies Paul & Tyler. I've known several people who have gone to Julian, and they all had positive things to say. I can't understand why. There was snow, which us Arizona people try to avoid, and it was kind of cold, and it was waaaaaay crowded. All the decent restaurants had lines outside and down the street. We found one with a 45 minute wait. They had buffalo meat, good stuff.
We walked a few blocks in the mud to get to this gold mine. We heard it was cool.
And then we found out it cost 10 bucks. Cough. And no looking was allowed. And an armed sentry was apparently on duty.
There was this candy store, and they had these suckers with bugs in them. Real bugs. Worms and scorpions. Seriously?
Julian is famous for mining and apples. Apparently you can go pick your own apples in the fall. They have all these pie places. Pretty good pie.
This is what town looks like. Small little mining town. I hear there are good hiking trails when it's not cold and wet. They say it's a fun town, I'm still sitting the fence about it.
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