We drove from Bakersfield, California on Dec 8th...yes more than a week ago. When we are “on the road” I seldom have internet access. We drove to a place outside of Lake Havasu City, Arizona. We stayed at a nice campground there. We met the owners who were believers and even had Kent speak on Wednesday morning before we left. They were so sweet.
We went into Lake Havasu City for the day on Tuesday. We actually had read about the town and heard about the famous London bridge that had been rebuilt there. Well the bridge was nice but the area around it well it was a big disappointment. There were shops and some rides on the lake but it all seemed very touristy and run down. There were some shops that were even totally closed. We walked along the small harbor where there was a nice hotel but we were not impressed positively with any of it. I wold not go out of my way to see the bridge although it was interesting that it actually had been used for a very long time in London and then in the 1970’s was torn apart and rebuilt in Lake Havasu City.
From there we drove to Quartzsite, Arizona. This is a community that has grown up since I think 1974. it is really a place for “snowbirds.” A snow bird is someone who is from the north coming south to escape the snow in their areas. There were so many RV places and there are also lots of free 2 week dry camping(no water, sewer or electric). Kent had read a lot about it and we’d heard lots of people talk about camping there. So we had wanted to do it sometime.
So we went to camp for two days. We knew we could do without electric that long. it was a little cool still, nothing like the weather up north though. We did have one day that was nice enough to cook over an open fire. We could have fires and I love to sit by the campfire. We even made some friends with some of the folks nearby and had two couples over to our house for dessert and coffee. That was fun!
I was ready to go though on Saturday morning. So we were getting ready to travel, which entails a fairly long check list so as not to forget something and have problems. So I was putting in the slides. I always watch them to make sure they are acting normally. Good thing! As the bedroom slide looked wrong as soon as it started to move. I stopped it right away and called Kent..he was already on his way in. He too had seen that there was a problem from the outside. Well, 2 hours later we were able to go down the road. Kent fixed it so that we could get into Phoenix safely but then has spent the last two days finishing it. Basically the bed came apart from the sliding mechanism. What a ordeal to get at it. Our house was in an uproar but I am sooo glad that my husband has the knowledge and experience to fix things like this. Other wise we would have had to limp into an RV dealership and hope they could fix it. Instead Kent was able to fix it as we sat still. So much nicer!
So now that is fixed and Kent spent some time fixing a few other things on the house that needed looking after. that is he did that in between several calls and a hour long conference. So his day was full. As was mine I finally dug out our Christmas decorations. Yes, I even have a little tree. Our house looks festive now.
We went to small group Christmas party of the church we will probably attend while parked here. We had visited the church last winter and liked it. So now we wanted to get to know some people there. That was fun! We also are hosting a little 3 couple get together on Monday night. This helps me not to miss doing all that entertaining over the holidays in our house.
Love and Merry Christmas,
Jan for the Roving Reimers