RVing along the Colorado River

Traveled down the Colorado to one of our favorite campsites (when off-season), Boulder Beach Campground at Lake Mead.  This time of the year, the place is empty!  Picked out a primo campsite with a great view of Lake Mead and the surrounding mountains.  No hookups, but great views.

We biked over to the visitor center and then to Hoover Dam via five tunnels on a rail-to-trails bike path.  Hoover Dam is quite an engineering marvel; and this time we really appreciated the art deco style of the visitor center, parking garage and monuments.

Following a couple of days at Lake Mead, we headed to Lake Havasu City.  Back in 1968, Robert McCulloch (remember chain saws) developed this town as a place to manufacture his power tools at a lower cost than in Los Angeles where his factory was located--And while he was at it, get into the land business.  He had the London Bridge (which was falling down), taken apart block by block, and reassembled to connect his man-made island in the Colorado River.  It took three years to reassemble and open the London Bridge to Arizona drivers.

Today Lake Havasu City has become a mecca for water sports on the Colorado and for all of the retired RVers to visit in the winter months.  We've decided that this is the RV winter capitol of the world!  We also discovered that we were at LHC during their annual hot air balloon festival!  So we packed up our motorhome and arrived in time for the 7:45am mass balloon ascension.  Unfortunately high winds kept all the balloons tethered to the earth; but still really cool!

We chose Buckskin Mountain State Park for our camping location while in this area.  A nice park right on the Colorado.  Planned to spend 4 days here, but it looks like we'll be here longer, as the government shutdown may have shutdown our plans to spent a few days at Joshua Tree National Park.  Not a bad place to be "stuck."