Starting Home - Feb 20, 2013

We had some time to explore Lake Havasu City.  One of the highlights was a photo of Pat in front of the "London Bridge".

PAT UNDER LONDON BRIDGE

Wikipedia says, "London Bridge is a bridge in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, United States, that is the relocated 1831 London Bridge that spanned the River Thames in London, England until it was dismantled in 1967. The Arizona bridge is a reinforced concrete structure clad in the original masonry of the 1830s bridge, which was bought by Robert P. McCulloch from the City of London. McCulloch had exterior granite blocks from the original bridge numbered and transported to America to construct the present bridge in Lake Havasu City, a planned community he established in 1964 on the shore of Lake Havasu. The bridge was completed in 1971 (along with a canal), and links an island in the lake with the main part of Lake Havasu City."

Our short visit to Lake Havasu City was the end of "relax and enjoy" time and the start of our drive home.  The picture below was our view from the RV on the last day.

VIEW FROM THE RV

After deciding that the winter storm that was approaching from the north-west would get in the way our drive to Bakersfield, we decided to drive back through Parker, Arizona to Palm Desert, Caliornia and then up to Bakersfield.  It turned out to be a good idea because of the high winds and closure of the Tehacapi pass  (Highway 58) that otherwise would have taken us to Bakersfield.  A couple of feet of snow with vehicles stranded all over the road.  Mind you, we did run into drifting sand (see photo below) and part of I-10 was partially closed so they could clean off the sand drifts.

DRIFTING SAND - JUST LIKE IT WAS SNOW

We stayed at Oasis RV south of Palm desert, picked some fresh fruit, helped the neighbour fix her power cord (that fried overnight). topped up the water, and drained the tanks.  Five hours later we arrived at the Orange Grove RV park in Bakersfield.

ORANGE GROVE RV

This is a nice park with good facilities and more fruit to pick.  This time it was just oranges, u-pick with the picking sticks they provide.