Monday, January 25, 2010

Our LONG Short Trip to Laughlin, Nevada

On the road again --




We were up fairly early this morning getting Auntie Violet ready to move from the desert. We've actually done pretty well this week of boon-docking. We still have a little more than half a tank of fresh water left and both the grey water and black water tanks are less than half full. And we even have some paper plates left!
Before we left, Bobby from Kustom Coach Works came by to give us the estimate (and collect the deposit check) for the new desk and cabinets we've ordered for Auntie Violet. They will get them built so that we can have them installed at their shop in Junction City when we're back in Oregon the last part of May.
We headed north from Quartzite on Arizona Highway 95, meeting up with Tom and Juni in Parker. We had planned to take Highway 62 to California Highway 95 on up to Needles and then Laughlin. Fortunately Tom spotted the one lone low sign saying that Highway 95 was closed twenty miles further! (We later ran into several people at a service station who said they had not seen the sign -- or any other signs -- and drove all the way all the way to the closure and had to turn around and come back.) We then decided to take Arizona 95 which winds along the Colorado River. It actually is a beautiful drive and a route that we had not taken before. BUT, there was a long stretch of construction and only one way traffic -- we averaged less than ten miles per hour. Our quick short trip turned into a very long one. And once we reached Needles, the two-lane road on up to Laughlin was really rough -- in California's near bankrupt state, they are obviously not spending much on their roads!
We're staying at Riverside RV Resort in Laughlin. Juni had made chicken enchiladas yesterday and invited us over to dinner tonight. We were a fairly quiet tired group...

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