Earp, California

We arrived on Wednesday and took a walk down to the beach area of the Colarado River.  We are just down from the Parker Dam and they happened to be doing maintenance work on the dam so on Thursday we were without power all day - from 8:00 - 5:00.  We enjoyed watching the burros go through the campground, but the maintenance people were not as they had to follow behind them with their shovels!!

Our friends that we met last year in Palm Desert joined us on Friday and we had an enjoyable time doing Happy Hours, barbecues and watching NASCAR races.  We also enjoyed a great Mexican restaurant in Parker called Maya's.  Great food and great service.

We toured the area to check out other campgrounds on both the AZ and CA side as well as on Sunday we went out to the Desert Bar - the number one attraction in the area.  To get there you have to go down a pretty bad gravel road for about 5-6 miles.  The Desert Bar, also called the Nellie E Saloon was an old mining camp.  The owner acquired the land in 1975 and has built the bar, having entertainment all day on the weekends.  Everything at the Bar is solar powered.  They have now built a well, but they used to have to haul in water.  Mike volunteered to drive and so he was going to be looking for a car wash once we left.  We also went up to the Parker Dam.

Parker Dam:

Desert Bar:

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.  

We left a day early as the Santa Anna winds were going to be coming into the area of California we were heading to next so we left on Tuesday and headed for Beaumont for an overnight stop and on Wednesday we arrived into Acton, CA at the Soledad Thousand Trails resort.