The drive between Lake Havasu City and Parker is quite pretty along the lake and river.  There’s RV after RV park by the banks of the river in a canyon like setting.  Steve noticed a sign in front of a very nice looking RV park that said $10 for full hookups.  When he went into the office they told him that also included free Wi-Fi AND golf AND the $10 rate was good for four days.  But the catch was we had to listen to a 90 minute presentation.  We decided not to waste the resorts’ time – although it sure would have been nice to stay there.
Quartzite is the famous place in the desert where supposedly close to a million RV’ers spend the winter.  Hard to imagine but we did see many RV’s dispersed throughout the desert as we drove by.  Someone would have to pay me a lot of money to camp there.  Steve has always wanted to come to Arizona in the winter and I have finally let him have his way………..but not for long  
Twenty miles from Yuma, suddenly the desert turned green (love it) and then you see these fields all the way to the city along with the busses that bring the Mexican migrant workers out.  We were going too fast to photograph the clusters of these workers hoeing the ground but I sure felt for them.  These people go through a lot to make a bare bones living.  I wonder what our produce would cost without them?

Our long stay in Laughlin was a record (other than my mother’s house) and we were sure ready to leave the last few days.  It was so windy we couldn’t leave the slide out due to the awning flapping and keeping us awake.  We were a little apprehensive to drive in such wind today but it was a tail wind and we hardly noticed it driving south.  We stopped in Lake Havasu City to see the London Bridge.  There’s a very nice walk under the bridge that goes for a ways in either direction plus we walked over the bridge too and then down to the other side.  The following information about London Bridge is from Wikipedia:
London Bridge is a bridge in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, United States, that is based on the 1831 London Bridge that spanned the River Thames in London, England until it was dismantled in 1967. The Arizona bridge is a reinforced concrete structure clad in the original masonry of the 1830s bridge, that was bought by Robert P. McCulloch from the City of London. McCulloch had exterior granite blocks from the original bridge numbered and transported to America, in order to construct the present bridge in Lake Havasu City, a planned community he established in 1964 on the shore of Lake Havasu. The bridge was completed in 1971 along with a canal, and links an island in the lake with the main part of Lake Havasu City.
Mr. McCulloch made a wise investment buying and relocating the bridge because Lake Havasu City now has 22,000 people. 

Early last November we took off from our home in Colorado for our exciting adventure.  The lines on this map of North America show our general routes so far.  When I look at the map I can’t believe we’ve traveled so far and wide and seen so much in this short time.  We have driven 27,200 miles but it doesn’t seem like it at all.  I wouldn’t mind reliving the last year because it’s been fantastic.  But we also can’t wait for the next phase to begin!
A year ago we spent Thanksgiving parked in a Flying J truck stop in Arizona.  This year we will have our dinner at one of the buffets in Laughlin.  Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!

  Red Line – Nov 2009 through March 2010

Blue Line – April 2010 through September 2010

Purple Line – October 2010 to present

White Line – Planned