Lake Havasu

Lake Havasu

Thursday, Jan 26…

In planning this trip the general idea was to stay in the south during the winter – obviously neither southern CA or Arizona is “the south.” This morning’s temp was 38°.  By now (late afternoon), it’s 57° and beautifully sunny, but there’s still a stiff breeze.

This morning I managed at least a couple miles walking while Greg waited for some work to be finished on the M3. Then we drove over the old London Bridge (which didn’t look very London-ish to me) and wandered through a nice park they’ve created on the small island on the other side. Fact is, they had to create the island too in order to have a body of water for the bridge to cross. The Lake Havasu shoreline used to have a good-sized “thumb” of land that created a smallish back bay with very little current. The water got scummy and folks weren’t happy. So they “amputated” the thumb by dredging a channel (maybe a couple hundred feet wide) at its base. Then there was a nice little island that needed a bridge. London had one for sale, and it’s been a quirky attraction here since about 1970. 😃

After lunch I got a much-needed haircut and Greg cleaned all the MH windows. (He spent the last 2 days polishing the rest of the outside.) Like I mentioned in an earlier post, maintenance is a big job. And an important one – RV sites (even the Elks) don’t want rundown vehicles in their lots. TEMP UPDATE: The sun just dropped behind the horizon. Brrrr.

APOLOGY: I have frittered away a at least an hour trying to lay out photos on this page. (I had 2 more I really wanted to include and finally gave up. I can't do anything about the huge blank spaces. Grrrr.

One of the trees from my long walk.

Landscaped dry wash.

London Bridge

Channel that severed the thumb.

Even an empty lot looks better under a sunset.