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On the road to Lake havasu

2/23/2021

Roses are red, violets are blue, click on the pics of Lake Havasu.

Riverfront homes near Lake Havasu. Not a bad way to spend one's golden years.

I made my way to Lake Havasu this morning and arrived at one of the many boondocking areas along the way unscathed from the 80-mile drive and only about 4 miles from downtown Lake Havasu.

As many of you know, I don't type very well, so I dictate my blog every day with a software called "Dragon Naturally Speaking," which enables me to write my blog in minutes rather than hours and turns the somewhat laborious process of writing this blog into something that's slightly pleasurable.

But there are certain words that the software just refuses to write correctly, and no matter how many times I try to train the software to do it right, it just doesn't get it.

One of the words that Is hopeless that the software never gets right is "Havasu." No matter what I do or what I say, the software writes.... Lake have assumed...... like have a shoe..... Lake have a Sue..... or anything else that remotely sounds like Lake Havasu, making me have to delete the mistake and then type it out correctly.

I know this is my cross to bear; it's just a heads up that you may occasionally find "Lake have a sewer" appearing randomly in my blog post while I'm here.

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It's hard to believe these barren dry hills have a fairly substantial river running right next to them.

But it's true.

Village next to the Colorado River Picture

In desert areas little villages spring up if there's any water nearby.

My boondocking spot near Lake Havasu. I will Stay hooked up to the Arctic Fox until tomorrow, which will give me time to find out how noisy my neighbors generators are. And if their too noisy, I will either pack up and leave, or hang out my sign that says... "Genuine
Wu-Han Chinese Bats for sale, "a Buck-A-Bat." Most of my neighbors move on after that.

4 Comments

Linda

2/24/2021 03:09:52 pm

We have friends who built a home in Lake Havasu with three 50 amp hookups out back. They call it their party place and are rarely there alone. Too bad they did all that after we stopped traveling. :(

Tom

2/24/2021 04:34:35 pm

Yeah that is too bad, I've always enjoyed being at Lake Havasu, there's just something about that crystal clear blue River flowing through this barren dry desert that makes this place magic.

I remember reading in high school that some crazy guy was going to build a bridge in the middle of the Arizona desert, and it wasn't even crossing water, it was just a bridge in the desert. I guess that's the difference in people like me that see things as they are, and visionaries like "crazy" Bob McCullough that can see things the way he wants them to be.... "Build it and they will come."

Maybe you should load up your van, put a snowplow on the front, plow your way to Arizona, pull into their yard and say "were here for the party."

And if they won't take you in, I imagine by early March the Spring Breakers will pack the town and there will be parties everywhere.

Tom

2/25/2021 02:34:31 pm

I would if I could but I sold my van. That was a mistake I wish I could take back.

2/25/2021 05:17:40 pm

That is a shame, a van is a very handy thing to have around, but there's other ways to camp without breaking the bank, a tent comes to mind. I know, I know. You can name half a dozen things wrong with that idea, and I can probably name an even dozen. But people do it, usually young people, very young people, but if you remember back a couple summers ago I camped all over the Colorado mountains in a tent. Was it perfect? No, but I survived. And if I had a choice of camping in a tent, or not camping all, I would camp in a tent.

I see people all the time in Quartzsite boondocking in tents. They usually have a compact car, or a small SUV, and a medium-size tent which they sleep in, and there cooking stuff is on a folding table outside. I wouldn't want to do that for long periods of time, but I would do that for a month or so if the alternative was staying at home.

Before I got the tent I tried sleeping in my truck for a while, but being 6 foot tall I couldn't sleep sideways in the truck so I had to remove the passenger seat and part of the backseat and sleep longways, and that actually wasn't too bad.

RVers like to describe living in an RV as an "adventure," but its no more of an adventure than cruising around the local lake in $1 million yacht. But sleeping in your vehicle, or a tent..... Now that's an adventure.

Tom

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