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5th Annual Havasu Balloon Festival

The 5th Annual Havasu Balloon Festival (January 16 – 18) is winding down.

From what we remember of last year’s fest, 2015’s was much bigger — more balloons, more RVs, more people. Lake Havasu was crowded. It was great fun.

Both Jan & I made attempts to see more of the festival this year. Jan checked out the action at Rotary Park Saturday morning, and both Jan & I got up early enough on Sunday to see the mass balloon ascension. However, getting breakfast in a local restaurant was waitful as everyone else thought it was a good idea too.

The Havasu fest is much smaller than Albuquerque’s (70 balloons compared to 700), but I think the scenery is better — balloons + mountains + water.

Here are some photos and video from the festival . . .

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Let’s Start the New Year with The Onion

From the desks of The Onion . . .

News from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider where scientists discovered and then killed the God Particle . . .

It’s Snowing !!!

Snow has fallen in Lake Havasu City for the first time in 27 years!

It’s in the low 30’s . . . Yikes!

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Jeepin’ to Honeycomb Rock

Honeycomb Rock Trip (click on map to enlarge)

On Thursday we took a Jeep trip into the desert to Honeycomb Rock (also called Rovey’s Needle or Holey Rock).

I’m pleased to report that none of our vehicles were damaged, and we all came back in one piece.

It was a great day trip.

Photos and video from our trip . . .

PHOTOS

In the Shadow of Honeycomb Rock (click on photo to enlarge)

Our Starting & Ending Point – a huge RV resort that never happened (click on photo to enlarge)

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VIDEOS

Overflow’s Secret Beach

Overflow Site #1

There’s a group of campsites at Crazy Horse Campground called “Overflow”.

On the official campsite map, the Overflow sites aren’t even shown. There’s just a “road to overflow area” shown (on the map look above the “r” in “Crazy Horse Campground”.)

From the porch of our park unit, we can look across the marina below us and see several campers on the “Overflow” ridge. There’s usually several campers at Overflow, but we’ve never bothered to check it out.

Overflow seemed like RVers parked in a wasteland. Then I took Flirt for a walk up the ridge to Overflow.

On the Overflow Plain with Flirt

When Flirt and I reached the top of the ridge, it looked like a huge gravel parking lot.

We kept walking . . . past the Overflow campers and to the edge of the lake bluff.

Then we saw it . . .

The Secret Beach (click on photo to enlarge)

A “private” beach . . .

Flirt & I walked a Jeep trail down to the lake shore and found a beach that continued for several hundred feet. The beach was shallow with a sandy bottom.

We’ll be back for a swim when it warms up in Spring.

Here are some photos from our walkabout . . .

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