My Life and Travels
I spent some time working on the hot water heater. When Jean washed dinner dishes the other night all she had was cold water. After testing different components I think the main controller board is out. When we get home I’ll redo all the tests and than order a new board. Oh, well.
Tomorrow morning we leave for home. We will be driving and staying in rest stop and/or Walmart’s until we get home to the cold. It has been a good trip.
Went to Poston, AZ where a Japanese-American camp was set up during WWII. Here’s more information
Nice memorial so this event is not forgotten.
Today is the last day of our fall trip.
First we had to move to a site by the road to dump the holding tanks.
Then we were on the road.
The pass was a little if’y so we drove around.
This pictures shows how the InReach track looks better once I upload the data inside the unit.
This is our track for the fall trip.
78 Nights – we will be at the big house 80 to 90 nights before heading to Mariner’s Spring training in February.
679.9 gallons of gas
Price range $1.90 to $2.59
$1.90 Albuquerque, Texas/NM border, Tucson
$2.59 Enumclaw
4811 miles on motor home
1300 on the car
Averaged $14.73 a night (not counting the balloon festival)
Had a great trip and looking forward to our spring trips to Goodyear for spring training and a month in Montana/Wyoming fly fishing.
Visited Lake Havasu with the primary goal to visit The London Bridge.
We made it to town in time for the Walking London Bridge tour. It was 90 walking tour around the bridge with a lot of interesting stories.
The bridge was purchased for 2.4 million. Only the outside skin of this bridge is actually from the London Bridge.
Here is a picture of the outer shell to show the thickness. All the stones were numbered and shipped.
They left some of the numbers.
Part of the drawing to track the stones.
What looks like stone under the bridge is actually concrete colored to match the original stone on the sides.
The goal was to give the town a tourist draw and help raise property prices in hopes the town would continue to grow. The bridge was purchased for 2.4 million and the granite which was not sent to Lake Havasu was sold in Europe for 2.4 million to people who wanted a piece of the bridge.
This is the original color of the bridge after several hundred years of London’s pollution, the bridge was cleaned and sun bleached.
We stopped at Parker Dam, this is the sun lighting up the power transmission lines,
We have started our first leg home, this stop will last until Friday. We are going to venture out to Lake Havasu and look around the area.
We are site 60.
Here are the campsite pictures.
These pictures are from the site looking out both ways toward the Colorado River.
These are cabanas on the river which can be reserved.
I’m guessing this is Buckskin Mountain. There is an American flag flying from the top.
This is our travels for today.
This shows where we are between Parker and the Parker Dam and the large open area of Lake Havasu.
Here is the camp ground area.
Good bye sandal feet, the temps are dropping and it is snowing at home. You get to come out again at Mariner’s Spring Training, you’ll get a new tan.
We have been at this park for two weeks and tomorrow morning we will moving down the road heading towards home. Our GPS says we are 1583 miles from Enumclaw.
Our next stop is Buckskin Mountain SP, AZ 10 miles south of Parker, AZ.
The current plan is to be at Buckskin Mountain until Friday when we will start driving everyday on the trip home.
We want to leave enough time in case we get hung up getting through the Siskiyous.
Also on Tuesday we drove 15 miles into the mountains to “Tortilla Flat” the last surviving stage coach stop on the Apache Trail.
The town is these three buildings along the highway. They promote the town as having a population of 6.
After walking the length of the town I felt “Welcome”.
Today we went to the Superstition Mountain Museum a couple of miles from the park.
They have a real full size ore stamping machine from a local gold mine.
We went to Costco in Mesa today. It was crazy busy and I felt young. Another clear 82 degree day.
We have had this motorhome since November 2004 and it wasn’t until we retired that we started pulling a car. One of the irritating challenges of hooking up the car’s tow bar is getting the correct distance from the hitch on the motorhome.
From the driver’s seat I can not see where the tow bars hook onto the car.
The hitch on the motorhome has sliding arms which give me about six inches of margin. Just before we left home this fall I made this stand and put a piece of doweling in it which I can see from the driver’s seat.
Since I took this picture I have added a string to measure the distance between the dowel and the hitch locking ring so I have the correct distance every time. This system has made hooking up the car a lot easier.
I added these pieces of parachute line to the safety lock rings last year. We were at Fort Flagler and I moved the motorhome about a 100 yards before I hooked up the car. When I got the car in place one of these safety rings was missing. Somewhere along that 100 yard road it fell off and bounced into the grass where I could not find it. Live and learn.
