Landmark Journey 2015: November 3 Havasu City Arizona

We left Williams just in time; the wind was howling, the clouds were dark, and just as we started to pull out from our RV spot it started hailing!! Needless to say we lucked out with our weather at Grand Canyon yesterday. I started out slowly on the freeway as I had never driven a 2 ton rocket down the road with hail before. It only lasted about 15 minutes as we started to descend from 7200 feet; the temperature increased from 6 degrees when we left to 17 when we hit 4000 feet in about 20 minutes. The sun came out and warmed us up nicely. No more heat from the truck heater! Our next stop was Havasu City Arizona. We pulled into a very highly rated (www.rvparkreviews.com) State park right on Lake Havasu; it was quite open but I had booked a fairly private spot, right at the end of the camping area. We settled in very quickly, and promptly set up our zero gravity chairs and enjoyed a drink on the beach. This city is not very old, it was started by a gentleman who had too much money in the 60's. His main claim to fame is he actually bought the original London Bridge in an auction in 1968. The original was starting to deteriorate (hit by shells in WW2) and wasn't built to withstand modern vehicle weights. He bought it for $2.5M, then spent another $7M to take apart, transport, and rebuild in Lake Havasu City. We first drove over he bridge and then around the waterfront road, not much there. We parked by the bridge an walked the waterfront. Then some shopping and scored on crab legs for $5 a pound. Dinner was exquisite! (and yummy). A good day.

One of the nicest spots on our trip