We arrived on Wednesday afternoon to a small little park on the Colorado River, called Colorado River Oasis. When we made the reservations, we were told they only had one site left and it would be by the pool. It was a great park and a great site, even though there was a little road noise from Hwy 95. We loved going down to the river and sitting and watching the river traffic and ducks. The ducks enjoyed not only the river, but the pool as well.
The first day here, we went to Lake Havasu and looked at the town to include the world famous London Bridge and then we checked out some of the RV parks, trying to find one that we could stay at and use our Kayaks for next year. We found one that looked promising for us and the kayaks but pretty lacking in dog walk areas.
The London Bridge was designed in 1799 and opened in 1831 spanning the River Thames in London, England. By 1924 the bridge was sinking due to the 20th century automobile traffic and in 1967 the city of London placed the bridge up for sale. The winning bid went to Lake Havasu City for $2,460,000. Each block was numbered before being disassembled, shipped oversees to CA and trucked to lake Havasu where the bridge was reconstructed and rededicated in a ceremony on October 10, 1971.
On Friday, we went into Kingman to see the Route 66 Museum, and then travelled the historic route 66 to Hackberry. On the way back, we stopped in Valle Vista to do some wine tasting.
The Kingman Powerhouse is now the home of the Kingman Visitor Center and the Route 66 museum. The building was built in 1907 and is one of the first poured concrete buildings in Arizona. It opened in 1909 as a power generating station and operated until 1938 when the Hoover Dam went online.
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We saw this electric wheelchair being restored
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Hackberry General Store:
Sites along Route 66:
We went to Cella Wines and Stetson Winery. Both were somewhat new, and still getting grapes from California or other vineyards in Arizona. We really liked the Stetson wines the best and took a couple of pictures.
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| The wineries Blarney stone. |
The next three days we spent visiting with friends and relatives. On Saturday a couple that we met in Palm Springs last year were in the area and so we had them to our site and enjoyed their company, snacks and dinner.
On Easter Sunday, we had my second cousin and her husband who lived in Kingman over and enjoyed the afternoon with them.
On Monday, we went over to some cousins who live in Bullhead City, only about 2 miles from where we were staying. They have a roadrunner that comes to the door to get hamburger to feed it's babies.
Tuesday we took the bike up to Oatman and Sitgreaves Pass, again the historic route 66 south of Kingman. Clark Gable and Carol Lombarde spent their Honeymoon in the Oatman Hotel. The burros run loose throughout the town. They are descendants of the burros used in the mine prior to being shutdown in 1942. They have old time gunslinger shootouts in the middle of town to raise money for the Shriner Hospital, closing down the streets a couple of times each day.
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Along the road going up to Oatman, people decorate the
shrubs and trees, with mostly Christmas decorations.
This was the only Easter bush we saw.
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On Wednesday we went south to Earp, CA to meet up with friends that we saw in Bullhead City who was going to be down at the Emerald Cove RV park on Friday. We'll spend a week here before moving west into CA and then start heading north to Washington.
We also enjoyed getting our kayaks out on the river and found some water streets in between some high end homes across the river from the park. The water was good on the River but even smoother in between the homes. 
