We're hard to see, but we're right in the middle of the photo:
We stayed at the Lake Havasu State Park in Lake Havasu City, along Lake Havasu. But, the RV park should have been called the "Lake Havasu Generator Park," as generators ran almost all of the time.
We are sure learning a lot about the RV world. I figured it would be a culture unto its own, and it's proving to be just that.
We noted today that we have yet to see a rig that is cheaper looking (and therefore probably cheaper) than ours. Most of the campers we see are big. Only a few are pickup campers--most are large trailers or huge self-contained motor homes.
The campground at Lake Havasu State Park was a nice one, but it didn't have "hookups." "Hookups" is not a dating term in the RV world, but instead refers to places to obtain water and electricity and to drain waste water into a sewer. Because it didn't have "hookups," this meant that the large rigs needed to generate their own electricity--hence the generators, hence the noise, hence the irritation.
A generator is not something we need because we don't have any electrical appliances that draw large amounts of current. All we have is a couple of car batteries in one of our storage closets to run our small lights, our stove fan, and our water pump. And now, they also recharge our cell phones and computers.
But if you want to watch TV, or run a microwave, or some such, you need much more electrical power than we have. Most of the rigs connect to 50 amp receptacles to run all of the electrical appliances in the RVs when they are in parks with "hookups." We just need 15 amps. And we have a lot to spare.
So we listened all night as (in violation of the campground rules) one after another of the other RVs' generators went on and off. grrrrrrr
Well, at least we got to see London Bridge, and that made it all worth it.
I lied. Not really.
Frankly, the bridge doesn't look all that great, and it's clear that it is just a tourist attraction that was put over a fake canal built for it. It's not really even the original bridge--underneath the outside stones is a new bridge made of concrete. But there is a little English "village" beneath it, complete with a "pub" and stores that sell sunglasses and so on. You gotta hand it to the original developer, though, who concocted this incredible scheme to lure people to a place no one wanted to go. Now it's really hoppin! It's still not a place I'd want to go, though, although this sounds a little dumb considering we just went there.
We took pictures because that's what you are supposed to do at London Bridge. Pretend that this fake canal is the Thames.
I'm too cheap to take her to England. I hope this will do.
We did have a nice afternoon sitting by the lake, though.
Our plan for the next day is to drive to the King of Arizona Nature Preserve. From what we read, we can dry camp anywhere there.
NO GENERATORS!!!!!!
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