We left Las Vegas for two reasons. One was the fact that when we originally made these plans to use the membership parks, we needed to be out of the system for a week. The other reason was that Robyn and Scott were going to out of town for a weekend. Since the weekends were the main time that we saw them, we just decided that this would be a good time to check out the park in Lake Havasu City.
So off we drove, leaving behind temperatures of 60-70 degrees with gusty winds requiring us to wear sweatshirts and jackets and use the heat in the morning...........and on to Lake Havasu with temperatures of 106. We did not know this about this city before we left, but now we do know why the snowbirders are gone.
Our plan here was to take care of projects..............I fixed drawers and closet doors that were not staying shut and Barb caught up on all of our laundry. We also caught up on the huge stack of mail we received from Deb in SD. In addition to all of that we had an appointment with an RV dealer to work on our awning again. As much as we have enjoyed this motorhome, we have found this awning to be a continuous problem. I do not remember if I wrote about it not coming in on the day be fore Thanksgiving when we were leaving to fly to St. Louis. We had to scramble to find a mobile guy who would come out at the last minute and at least get it in. Any way, he fixed it for a few months and now it is winding up crooked and causing the rear arm not to align and so not close. So we arrived on Monday and on Tuesday brought the rig to a dealer to evaluate the problem. His belief was that we needed new fabric and a new roller. Since it is still under warranty, A&E had a say in this and they approved the fabric only. It has been ordered and we are hoping it comes in by tomorrow. That gives them Wed to work on it since we leave on Thursday. If we had it to do over again, we would never get an A&E awning !!! We have had something go wrong with it about once every 6 months !!!
So yesterday, we decided it was time to get out of the motorhome and away from projects. By the way, the fame of Lake Havasu is the fact that they have imported the London Bridge. That's right..........they took it apart piece by piece in London and put it together in lake havasu city. It is kind of a neat bridge and fun to drive or walk across............and good restuarants and tourist shops along the water underneath the bridge.
But we wanted to do something different, so we drove south of lake Havasu to the Parker Dam and the Bill Williams Wildlife Refuge. Now, for a bit of info, Hoover Dam may be the largest, but Parker Dam is the deepest.
And we have seen them both!!!The refuge was interesting.
We took some walks in the refuge.
We learned that the area that the refuge is in is on the border of the Sonoran Desert and the Mojave Desert and so the vegetations reflects this difference.
We also walked along the waters of Lake Havasu itself and then drove over to the bridge. It was a nice outing.
Today we are back to errands............Barb at Walmart and me on the computer.
Love to all of you,
Linda and Barb
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