Okay, I give up on the photos for this entry. I keep losing the internet connection. We are currently at a State Park campground called Windsor Beach, near Lake Havasu City, Arizona. We stayed one night at a different campground a couple of miles down the road, but hated it. We checked out 2 other places (both awful), before finding this. Beats me what the attraction is to campgrounds with no vegetation and the sites laid out on a grid. You might as well pull into the Walmart parking lot! This is much more our style. No powered sites, which equals no big motor homes - and we're right on the lake, which makes Taz happy. The original plan was to stay a couple of nights then move on, but we're enjoying the place, so we signed up for the bargain plan. Pay for 5 nights and get 2 free. It never occurred to us to turn on the computer, but the campground "host" mentioned that he can sometimes connect to the Super 8's internet, so we thought we'd give it a try. It's a spotty connection at best, but it's free! (The Super 8 is probably 500 yards away though, so we're lucky to get it at all!)
I knew that the London Bridge had been moved to somewhere in Arizona, but I didn't know where. And I'd never heard of Lake Havasu City before, so it was kind of a surprise to me to stumble into the place where the bridge now lives.
It was purchased in 1967 for 2.5 million dollars, shipped across the Atlantic and reassembled here piece by piece! I guess that's better than just sinking it into the Thames.
The bridge is a nice 20 minute walk along a sandy beach from here, so we've wandered over every day. We stop along the way and throw endless sticks into the river for Taz. We found an off-leash dog park just a ways past the bridge - probably the fanciest dog-park ever. Palm trees, lush green grass (in the middle of a desert!), lots of benches and picnic tables and a thousand tennis balls scattered around the place!
I'll add pictures next time we get to a reliable internet source - it was just TOO frustrating trying to upload them here.
Welcome to our blog. Dan & I are hoping to use this method to keep in touch with family and friends while we're away this winter. You'll have to bear with us through the learning process - neither of us have ever done this before. If it works the way we hope it will, we'll keep you updated with our where-abouts and share pictures. We're hoping that you'll use it to keep in contact with us too. The most recent entry will always be at the top of the page, so if you're new here, scroll down to the bottom to start or use the archive list. Our apologies to anyone who found the Travelpod blog only to have it disappear on them, but this site seems easier to use and like I said - we're beginners, so the easier the better.
Random photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lovestotravel/
Random photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lovestotravel/
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
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