I left off in Eastern Arizona where we spent the night at the Root 66 RV Park. (Isn’t that so Route 66 looking?) I have been unable to update our blog because Northern Arizona has large portions where Verizon is not an active cell system. It was an “extended area” and wouldn’t connect with our broadband card. This is the first time we have had trouble using the Verizon Broadband card.
We drove straight to Kingman, AZ to stay Saturday night at the Zuni Village RV Park, an Escapees Discount Park. We saved about $4 more by using our Coast to Coast membership—so it was a bargain, as well as a very nice park. The sites are level and clean, the laundry room is large with lots of machines, and the shower is the best I have experienced in a long time! We will come back and stay a few more nights on the next trip over I-40.
Anyone driving I-40 through Arizona would want to allow at least a week to explore several wonderful attractions. Some of the best sights to see are the Petrified Tree National Park, Meteor Canyon, and of course, the Grand Canyon. Going north from Kingman, I would also add a tour to Hoover Dam and the new bridge being built to bypass the dam.
I would pass up the new Sky Walk because of the exorbitant multiple fees. I might be willing to pay the $26.95 per senior fee, $54 for us, but, as they say on TV, “WAIT, THERE IS MORE!” Each visitor is charged a Legacy Pass fee, $39.95 for seniors plus taxes, and a $20 car fee. Even the reduced “senior fee,” is about $87 a person. I don’t like heights and heck, spending $174 for a hour’s entertainment is enough to freak me out—without looking down 4000 feet.
We planned our visit to Lake Havasu City to miss the busy weekend. In the summer, the lake is a boater’s Mecca! By arriving on Sunday, we secured a nice spot in the Passport America park, Campbell Cove RV Resort. It has a lot of amenities and thanks to the P/A discount, very affordable. We really needed to run the air conditioner—Sunday afternoon the thermometer in the window read 124 degrees! And it was only 102 inside the camper, Yaahooo!
(Lake Havasu in the background)
My sister Diane and her husband Roger live in LHC part of the year—the part that isn’t 124 degrees! (They are getting ready to leave for the summer.)
We had a wonderful visit—our jaws never stopped moving, smile! She is very artistic and talented; I look at what she accomplishes and just sigh! She just finished remodeling their bathroom; yes, it looks beautiful, and was working on landscaping her backyard corner—and yes, it looks beautiful! I saw the jewelry she has made, and yes, it is beautiful too! I am so lucky to have such a wonderful sister who inspires me to do better! I have to work on my pottery!
I was having so much fun, I forgot to take any photos of their yard and her improvements to the house.
We got up early this morning to beat the LHC heat and headed for California. We crossed into the Californian nation about 8 am.
Welcome to California: “ From Texas, eh? Do you have any oranges or apples?” Darn, there went our fruit salad makings! They did let us keep our poor, sad looking banana.
Traveling west, we were amazed to see how beautiful the desert looked since our last trip over CA I-40 in February. The valleys and hills were green!
Isn’t that beautiful? It was such a treasure to see. By Barstow, CA, the landscape was back to browns and yellows. The spring-green season is over in California!
We are spending the night in Bakersfield, CA at the Elks Lodge on our way up CA Highway 99 to the Escapees Co-op Park in Coarsegold, CA. We will be staying at SKP Park of the Sierras a week before going on to Sugar Barge RV Park in Bethel Island, CA, on the 26th. This will be our treat to ourselves before we head off to see our doctors and do the routine lab tests.
Stay tuned for some photos of Yosemite NP if we can get in!
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