A side trip to Las Vegas for a couple days. Barry has to fly back to MA for his brother-in-law’s funeral who had a heart attack in Fl the beginning of the week. Luckily I have a friend from Sierra Club’s Energy Team here that I plan to catch up with. We are in an RV park that is pretty disgusting, Must be over a hundred rigs– all bigger than us- here not far from the airport. It’s surprisingly, cloudy/rainy and about 55 degrees. But we get 28 channels on our computer TV.
Drove here this morning from Lake Havasu - a lake caused by the damming of the Colorado River boarding AZ and CA. For sure people gravitate to water. As we approached, there were houses and RV parks clustered for miles along the river. Havasu City is a sprawling place that boasts the London Bridge as it central tourist attraction. We had a hard time finding it and then realized we had crossed it. Our campsite was right on the lake – nice to hear some slapping of waves again – boats going by for hours. There are even palm trees here.
Spent happy hour at the local brew pup. They have some really nice local brews that we had a sample of – very friendly folks.
We left Catalina SP on Wed. the 15th to go south to Organ Pipe Natl. Monument – decided to go boondocking on BLM lands around Ajo on the way. A little scary when we saw a sing saying CAUTION – SMUGGLING OF IMMIGRANTS IN THIS AREA. Lovely sunset with the ragged mountain tops in the background – pretty sandy here in the desert. A few free standing beams - remnants of old homesteads and an old fashioned wind mill were not far from our campsite. Off an on as we drove into the area we noticed a few other campers. We actually go a call from B’s sister out here in the wilderness. Cell phones work just about everywhere here!
Ajo has a nice green town common surrounded by Spanish style buildings, one of which is a train station; another houses a very modern library where we found Barry flights on line. Several old guys were there reading the morning papers.
Missed meeting up with the Welsher’s for Larry’s bday as we headed north on Thurs. for Las Vegas. It even rained on the way to Lake Havasu. – I thought that was unheard of at this time of year. We drove through Quartzsite RVs dot the landscape. And there are miles of “good Buys” on used ones on the main drag. The famous gem and xxx show is coming up in Jan. We’ve heard it’s a real zoo around there then. Looks like a lot of trinket and junk shops as well as gems are available. Larry is anxious to take part in this event, or at least observe it.
The ride here was through the desert, very little inhabitants - only at crossroads where the usual service stations and dismal looking motels were located. WE had planned to go over to Lake Mead today but the weather is rather gloomy so maybe we‘ll go the strip!
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