Lake Havasu City, AZ

The London Bridge

North bridge canal looking towards the lake

Lake Havasu City.  Home of the London Bridge.  Wasn't aware of that until a few days before arriving.  I was aware that a US town bought the bridge when London put it up for sale.  Just didn't know it was moved here.  The area is pretty in it's own way.  To us the mountains look like a painted canvass background.  Weather's terrific.

This place is a snow bird location.  We're here just a little early as most people don't get here until  

One of almost two dozen lighthouses on the lake

mid-to-late November.  RV parks aren't full, but they do a good business over the weekend.  The place reminds of us of Florida. Most homes appear to be ranch style with stucco siding of a pastel color and ceramic roof tiles.  AC is by evaporator cooling.  Still, it is in the desert.  The sand seems the same as Florida.  Landscaping is typically rock

with drought resistant vegetation.  Grass looks out of place.

One of the reasons we're here is to get the trailer serviced and have a roof mounted satellite TV antenna added.  Sunshine RV is the dealer that helped us with our bedroom slide-out issue last year over the phone and got us going so we could get back to DRV in Indiana and get a complete fix.  Since they treated us so well last year, we thought we'd come back to them with our business. We have a Good Sam Extended Service Plan (ESP) for the trailer and finding it's pretty much useless.  Even the service manager at Sunshine RV is scratching his head over our claim rejection (which was pre-approved before we got here as was having Sunshine RV do the warranty work.)  Good Sam was an excellent club when we joined them in the early 1990s.  We thought so much of them that we became lifetime members of the club.

However, we're finding that service has deteriorated.  Two years ago we went to Coach Net as our emergency road service due to    

View from Waldo's BBQ

the complaints on the various RV forums about the Good Sam Emergency Road Service.  Now this problem with ESP surfaces. There is an appeal process, but I'm not giving it much hope.  It may be time to cancel the Lifetime  membership, too.  They've become a lot like AARP - more oriented to selling you stuff than providing useful services.

 While I'm on things not working, Lake Havasu City is not know as a Verizon Wireless town.  Within the last couple of months, Verizon was able to obtain 3G Extended Service here.  While it's great as cell phone service, data is hit-n'-miss and more miss than hit.  If you're coming here with a Verizon mifi or smart phone hotspot, don't look for good data service here.

Anyway, our first week here was great.   The new satellite antenna is working fine (though every time I start playing with the control box, I always manage to send the antenna into the stow position.  It's good entertainment for others in the campground, I'm sure.  I can hear it now - "Oh, look Martha, there he goes again...")  We're still awaiting a new over-the-air TV antenna for the trailer and get it installed before leaving.  And we'll probably get the shock absorbers replaced on the truck while we're here, too.  Later, David

Looking from the campground west across the Colorado River to California