Wednesday January 9th
I cruised around Needles for awhile in the morning. The older part of town is as "down-at-the-heels," as any place I have ever seen. There are broken windows everywhere and lots of boarded up windows, many of the businesses are closed or are only open 3 or 4 days per week. I need the emergency brake cable repaired on the Suburban, but decided not to do it here.
When I went back to the trailer I decided to tackle the repair of the valve handle for the kitchen waste water. The valve didn't close all the way when we left Laguna Seca but since then we have just avoided using the kitchen sink so water would not leak out. The valve handle is attached to the valve assembly with a small cotter key which goes through a tubular receptacle and the valve handle rod. The receptacle was made of plastic and had cracked; my fix was a couple of plastic wire ties to hold the receptacle tube tight around the valve handle rod. Then I added a larger cable tie around the valve handle rod and a pipe to support it and eliminate the flex that had cracked the piece of plastic in the first place. I checked the other valve handles (there are three) and made some preventative fixes to them so the same thing doesn't happen to them.
By that time Cathey had found a campground in Lake Havasu City which will be our next stop. We got hooked up and got on the road, but it was only about 40 miles. The campground is about 5 miles N of Lake Havasu City, but there is a pretty good sized mall less than a mile away. Unfortunately our wifi won't work here (must be a weak Verizon signal) so we will have to pay extra for the wifi service provided by the rv park.
Gas in AZ is between $2.99 (at the truck stop at AZ-95 and I-40) and $3.40 in Lake Havasu.
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