Parker, AZ

Bill Williams NWR

Colorado River at Lapaz County Park

Time for a weekly update.  We're doing well and we're making progress getting things done.  Our new rooftop satellite antenna works, but it appears it's showing a weakness in our satellite TV receiver.  Once again  & within 20 months of buying our first receiver, we now have our second receiver that fails to lock onto a satellite.  Shut everything down overnight, and we have to reset everything as if we're setting up for the first time every morning.  Seems I'm great at buying stuff that doesn't work.

Motor home sites at Lapaz County Park Campground

We've also proven that extended warranties are a useless expenditure of money.  Seems our over-the-air TV antenna was covered.  And then it wasn't.  Apparently, over-the-air antennas aren't electronics. I find that surprising given they're always listed and stocked in the electronics sections of catalogs and stores.  We canceled our Good Sam Extended Service Plan and suppose to get our money back. 

We're still awaiting that second part.  Of course, if I bought stuff that worked, none of this would be an issue.

So I guess you're wondering about the pictures?  OK, I'll tell ya about them. We drove south through the Bill Williams NWR to Lapaz County Park for chili/salsa tasting and a car show.  Really nice RV park there on the Colorado River, too.

Of 13 chilies we tried, only one wasn't all that great.  All the salsas were great.  We'll go back to Bill Williams NWR as there's a trail that looks interesting.  We also saw a golf course built into the side of the mountains at Parker.  The fairways and greens really blended in well with the surrounding desert and none of it looked out of place.  It was impressive!

We continue to have great weather.  Today is the first day for us to have real clouds that hang around for awhile.  Highs are still in the upper 80s with lows in the 60s each day.  Sunsets are gorgeous!

We're getting out and seeing more of the area.  Lake Havasu City is really built from the lake eastward to the mountains.  If you go to the lake and look east, it looks like an infestation of some type.  We've visited some model homes.  Most of the little gated "communities" are built for snowbirds who go north for the summer. Typical unit we looked at has a large garage for an RV or large boat. 

Unfortunately, food's just average.  We've been spoiled by Gulf Shores! 

Oh, and Donna is enjoying her visits to Curves.

Plans for this weekend are to visit a R/C float plan show at the lake (Windsor Beach), Friday.  Saturday is a planned trip to Oatman, AZ.  Oatman is advertized as a ghost town and one of the original Route 66 towns when Route 66 was just a dirt road.  Looks interesting.  We'll tell ya more about it next week.

Later, David