Lake Havasu City, AZ

We left noisy Tempe and are making our way to California.  We decided to stop in Lake Havasu City, AZ as it is in the general direction we are going and neither of us had ever been.  We both grew up in Southern California and can remember our friends always talking about Lake Havasu and going there with friends and family for weekends to boat on the river.  Since we were not boaters we just never bothered.  I can remember years ago the big news story when the town here bought the London Bridge and brought it over here as a tourist attraction for the area and all the jokes that came with it.  So, with all that past and really no travel plan, why not stop.

We arrived yesterday afternoon and have not really checked out the area.  Best we can tell so far is that there is not that much to do unless you are into water sports.  The desert views are spectacular and the sunsets are great.  Our RV park is adequate, nothing special, but it is on a little hill so it does have some nice views.  The downside is that the spaces are close together.  Here are some pictures I took from the RV park.

Our rig (the one in front of the red truck).

RV park

View of the lake and mountains

Sunset

Since arriving in Arizona it has been interesting to see the RV culture here as this state is one of the destinations for snowbirds.  There are RV parks everywhere and they are large.  One of the biggest destination areas is Quartzite, Arizona.  It is at the junction of Interstate 10 and Highway 95.  The town is in the middle of nowhere but supposedly it becomes a bustling city of over 100,000 during the winter.  We had driven by it a few years  back when driving from Phoenix to Los Angeles and was wondering what all the parking lots were (actually RV parks).  At that time they were empty because it was the off season.  Now we went through it on our way to Lake Havasu and it is really picking up.  There are RV’s everywhere.  We saw many RV’ers coming south on Highway 95 as we made our way to Lake Havasu.  Their license plates indicated they were coming from Oregon and Washington.  Many RV’ers choose to boondock, meaning they park on open land and have no hookups.  You will be driving on the road and see a few off in the distance.  To cater to these boondockers we noticed a business in town that allows you to drive your RV in and buy water to fill the tanks and a dump station to dump your waste tanks.  Then it is back out to the desert.

We had a great time in Tempe visiting with our daughter.  We had not seen her since she and her fiancé visited us in February just before we left for our “Life on the Road”.