Some hard days

We had a couple of hard days on Fri and Sat. Friday was pretty good overall until that last 30 miles thru the Yuha desert which was on the worst paved road I have ever seen. Imagine a volcano in the road every 8 feet. That was what we road over. We where looking forward to taking a little break in a place called Plaster City. As is turns out, there is a plaster plant in Plaster City. No city, no gas station, no houses, no nothing but Plaster Plant. Jake is suing. (But not complaining, Dave)
On Saturday we had another good morning riding thru the Imperial valley, which I think is the Yuha Desert with Cow Poop and water added. Then we headed back into what I'd call a desert and into the Algonones sand dunes. At about 11:00 Am we got hit with the Santa Anna wind in our face and had a very hard 45 miles. The climb was gradual, but with the head winds we were in our granny gears going 5 miles per hour. Even the last 30 miles, which was to be down hill, was actually rollers (ups and downs). In other words, we have had 3 days of climbing. We ended the day in RV Park in Palo Verde.
As nice as Palo Verde sounds, like most of the small towns we have seen..........not. Check out Jakes pic, but imagine a RV park where people without money might live. OMG - for you folks that don't like roughing it, this place would kill you. What a hoot. Rememeber it's Sat night and they were partying, so the country music stopped at midnight. The people getting walked back to their RVs ended at 12:45. I think the funniest thing was when the guys were talking to us in the morning, I could tell who was who from listening to them the night before. They sounded the same in the morning.
Today, Sunday we decided that we needed a "rest day". We did about 30 miles and are now camping on the Col0rado river. We have both spent about 3 hours icing our knees, my neck and my achillies. (Yes I'm having some issues) - Dave, we are NOT complaining.
New pics posted.