Dec 13
Apparently the down river Parker Dam was getting clogged by “tree branches and beach balls” and Lake Havasu is being lowered by 3 feet to unclog the dam. Just how many beach balls do you need to clog a dam?
Anyway, here are photos from when we arrived and the lake as it looks now . . .
Surfs down!
Been meaning to update the blog, but, well, . . .
Anyway, here’s a piece of Americana for you — it’s the Barber I went to today:
Guns & Hair
Coming Up in the Following Days:
Nov 4
We did it. After over 5000 miles and over 40 different campgrounds, we arrived at Crazy Horse Campground in Lake Havasu City, AZ — our Winter home for 4 months. By the way, more stats from our first year of full timing coming up.
Since our last update at Casa Grande, AZ, we stayed at the Econo-Lodge-Airport hotel in Phoenix for a day and a half while we had our yearly diesel engine service done at the Cummins Rocky Mountain facility in Phoenix.
By the way, we had no idea Phoenix was so large of a city — about 1.5 million people in the city and over 4 million in the metro area. Anyway, we soon discovered how large Phoenix is when we had to drive through the city. Yikes. Plus, the city sits in a “bowl” between mountains so it seems to have a permanent haze (smog?) surrounding it. We crossed Phoenix off the “We Could Live Here” list.
We left Phoenix on October 30th and stayed in Augie’s Quail Trail RV Park in Gila Bend, AZ. Augie’s is more of an overnight stop than a destination park.
Our last campground before Lake Havasu City was Yuma, AZ and The Palms RV Resort. We were given a tour of the facilities and after Jan saw the pottery classroom . . . well, it was love. Hubba bubba. This resort is Amenities Plus with a price to match . . . and it’s a destination for many Canadians, especially those from Alberta.
Yuma itself was flat with canals and one RV park after another. Definitely Snow Bird land.
We left The Palms Friday morning, November 1st, for Crazy Horse Campground in Lake Havasu City about 150 miles away, and we arrived in the afternoon. On the way up Highway 95 to Lake Havasu City, we saw one RV after another headed south. The Snow Bird migration has begun.
Though I thought Crazy Horse would be ok, I wasn’t sure. So — just in case — during the last leg of our journey to Lake Havasu City, I called around to other RV campgrounds to see what was available for the Winter. I was surprised to find campground sites still available . . . so we had a Plan B if we didn’t like Crazy Horse.
However . . . we love Crazy Horse — at least so far. The beachfront campsites (where we are staying) are crammed together and I had to clean up our campsite area, but the view is . . . STELLAR! Our first morning started with an older woman doing Tai Chi on the beach. Too cool.
On the day we arrived, we had dinner with my sister and her husband who are from California (a 4-hour drive). We had a great fish fry — how Milwaukee Catholic, eh?
On Monday we’ll look up our friend Jim who has a place at Crazy Horse.
Some photos from the last leg of our journey . . .
Oct 26
We arrived Wednesday and we’ll stay through Monday. This will be one of our last stops before we arrive at Crazy Horse Campground in Lake Havasu City, AZ our Winter hangout.
Next Wednesday we have annual maintenance done in Phoenix on our motorhome. Then it’s off to Lake Havasu.
Our current campground, Casa Grande RV Resort, was a disappointment at first because the campground’s dog park was just a walkway around a water retention pond. Super.
However, we found a great county dog park less than a mile away. Here’s a movie of Ellie and Flirt enjoying the park’s grass . . .
Oct 22
Catalina State Park Map (click to enlarge)
Jan took a morning hike on a Nature Trail in Catalina State Park. Some photos from her trip . . .
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