Retreat Back to Arizona

Friday March 16^th

I didn’t feel like setting up my coffee pot this morning so I went to Blythe in search of a Starbucks. Blythe isn’t a very big town but it was big enough to have a Starbucks. Also had a Ace Hardware Store where I stopped and got a spring loaded shower curtain rod to use as a prop to hold some trim in place while it is glued back into position. The piece is part of the ceiling trim in the main slide-out; I had noticed that the end was loose at our last stop but when we got to Blythe it was much worse. So another super glue application to keep things in place!

While I was in Blythe, I noticed that gas was $4.45/gal. That was discouraging since we had planned to make the easy (no high mountain passes) route to California and then drive up the valley to Sacramento. So the first thing I did was drive back across the river to Arizona and fill up the Suburban there. Gas was ‘only’ $3.89/gal there so the difference was $.55/gal. Cathey called several RV Parks in Cathedral City, CA (adjacent to Palm Springs), but could not find one that had a vacancy. I still didn’t have John’s address in Palm Springs, so we decided to back track a few miles on I-10 and then head north to Lake Havasu or one of the towns along the river between here and Las Vegas. The trip through Nevada now looks a lot better with the gasoline price differential to help us endure a few chilly nights along the road.

We stopped in Parker, AZ for lunch and then I called a campground in Lake Havasu and got one of the last sites at The Crazy Horse RV Park in Lake Havasu.

Once we got registered and went to setup we discovered that the site not only had a cut-off pole sticking out of the ground near the back of the site, but the site wasn’t long enough for our trailer. They gave us another site near the water, which was nice, but there was no sewer hook-up and no cable TV, both of which were available at the first site. So we will just have to watch our waste water production for the next three days, and we should be okay. Oh, yeah, and the electrical hook-up was 50 amp and our trailer is a 30 amp, so we shopped around half the afternoon for a converter plug.

We went out for supper at a place called the Javelina Cantina, and noticed a lot of people along the beach having a noisy party. Oh yeah, it’s spring break and Lake Havasu is a popular spot for college kids to gatherer. Later Cathey read in a local newspaper that there are motorcycle and ATV races here for the next two weekends!