Pictures of Havasu Falls and a trip to Mohave Valley

Since I promised that I would take a picture of this nice park, here it is!  I only pray that I will get it up loaded.  I have been able to slowly use the air card from the rig here.  I put on my external antenna, and found that if I magnetic clip it to the defroster fan in the passenger side window it will connect.  But at times it loses the connection and then again it comes back.  I've been putting up with it.

The motorhome next to us dropped his hoses and electric cord and headed out somewhere this morning.  He's back again tonight, so I took advantage of his absence this morning to take a picture of our rig.  That is our picnic table behind his sewer connection and electric post.  Nice eh!  He has a slide just like we do, so it nearly touches the car when he comes back.

Looking down the street, you can see we are stacked up as tight as can be.  My slide is against the pickup's door so he can barely get out.  Iguess the place is what it is.  But it has hook ups!!!!!  And that is good for tonight as it is to be a tad cold.  The propane space heater is up the street in the trailer, as we couldn't have that on our site.

Today we decided to take a little tour up thru Mohave Valley and Bullhead City, Arizona.  We have never been up that far, but wanted to add the experience to our book of Arizona travels.  We briefly were in California again as we traveled thru Needles, but then back over the Colorado river and into Mohave. 

We buzzed around the city for a while, and even headed out to Rex and Mary's campground the Blackstone RV Park, but they were not there, since they deal blackjack at the Avi and have blogged about working all the time.  We have never met them before, so I wonder if we would have had the courage to just pop in on them anyway.  But it would have been Oh Hi! were readers, perhaps we should have called ahead.  Oooo!

We drove the distance of Bullhead City, and then across into Laughlin, Nv.  This is the gambling meca started by Don Laughlin.  There is really not too much on the Nv. side of the river, except a bunch of mega hotel casinos all lined up in a row on the river bank.  One is like a river boat, and the others are huge multi story properties.  Since we are not much as gamblers, we didn't head into the casinos.

We went to the In and Out Burger for a double double and shared a hand cut fries.  It was too cool to eat outside on the picnic tables, so we took refuge in the car.  The pigeons were attacking our fries as well.  I made the mistake of giving in and tossing a bird a fry, and al of a sudden a flock of birds swooped down on us.  Obviously they have been fed by a lot of folks here before.

There is an outlet mall across from the Riverside Casino, and we parked underneath the stores in the garage and headed in to shop a little.  Splitting up, I went and did the men's stores, while Loyce just disappeared.  I decided to wait on the lost husband benches at the top of the escalators, but we still managed to miss one another, until she called me on the phone and announced that she was back at the car.

From there we did a little fabric shop hunting back on the Arizona side, and buzzed back across the river from Mohave Valley to find the AVI.  This is an Indian owned and operated lodge and casino.  It is in Nevada, but the bridge comes right across the river specifically for Arizona traffic.

We were tired of touring and headed back to Havasu City by way of the local Wal Mart here.  Our day was over, since we made taco's at home tonight.

Tomorrow is another travel day, as we plan to move the rig up to Boulder City, by the Hoover Dam.  It has been years since we have been there also.  Maybe the air card will work there a little better.

Retired Rod