Black Meadow Landing on the Lake

March 18th
Sight seeing Day today! We all take our own vehicles and head off to Havasu Landing. This is a small community only a few miles north along the lake from where we are camped, but the road has to make a big circle around and basically follows dry washes to the residences. A nice little community with about 50 modular type homes, and a nice marina, for everyone has a boat, as I imagine most go across to Havasu City by water most of the time for supplies. Probably takes 15 minutes by boat but a couple hours by ground. The road is just a one lane dirt path down washes and over ridges.

On one of the washes we followed upward toward the source and found a huge deep narrow canyon.

We were able to drive through and it gave us csome great photo opportunities. Just beyond the canyon the road deteriorate and finally got too rough for our vehicles. Tom, Doug and I walked another 1/2 mile and found a real neet cave. It was on the canyon floor and was about 25 feet high and the same wide, and extended nearly 50 ft into the mountain. Would be a great place to camp out away from the weather.

March 17th - St. Patty's Day
Just another quite enjoyable Day
In the afternoon Denice and I drove down toward the Parker Dam to take some photos. Great scenery here of the high mountain desert type.

This is the pipeline from the lake to higher elevations where the water then flows to Los Angeles, Phoenix and Tucson.

We also have a fair amount of birds and animals around us. Quail, Roadrunners, and Jack Asses. Last night at midnight the wind came up and I had to go out and put up the awning. It was pitch black, but right behind ELTORO the burros were laying down and one scared the bejesus out of me when he started braying only feet away!!

March 16th
Denices Big Toe feels much better today, So much that we go and do Laundry. We are away behind. When completed Tom and Linda, and Doug and Germaine, are at ELTORO for coffee. We are just really enjoying it here. The weather is finally what we would expect for down here. 70's and 80's during the day, 40's at night. Pretty well just rested today and enjoyed the scenery and weather.

March 15th
After talking to several people who have had Gout and last nght I searched the Web for cures, we found that there are some natural home remedies thaat have worked for lots of people. The four most common seem to be Cherry Juice, Baking Soda, Apple Cider Vinegar, Celery seed, and Ibuprofin. Armed with this info we decided to make a trip into Havasu City, to see if we could come up with this grocery list of items. To get to Havasu we crossed the Havasu Dam and turned north on Highway 95. It is only about 10 miles to go to Havasu City rather than Parker and everyone advised Havasu would be a better option. Once in Havasu we stopped at a Walgreens Drug store. II explained Denices situation and requested info or if they had the items I needed. The pharmicist was of little help and said that the items I was wanting was of little benefit. I explained we wished to do it outside of the US prescriptions option as we were Canadians. He said that he could not (or would not) help and we should go through a doctor. I left the store in a little bit of a huff, and went across the street to a Safeway, and found all the items that we had on the list. Returned to home at Black Meadow Landing and immediately started treatment with lots of water and cherry juice. Haven't tried the Baking soda or apple cider vinegar yet. Tomorrow?? I want to make her a cocktail of 1 oz apple cider vinegar, 1 tsp of baking soda, 6 oz cherry juice, and a sprinkling of celery seed, but she will have nothing of it.
I also bought Cherry Cheesecake (2) and stopped at Tom and Linda's once home and had cake and coffee with them, and Doug and Germaine.

Mar 14th
Wrap up and move north to Parker following Tom and Linda, stop at the WalMart and buy some groceries, and the continue across the bridge over the Colorado River, and on onto California. Then turn right along the river and drive for 25 miles over some difficult mountain road to Black Meadow Landing.

Our latest segment of the trip as of March 14th, 2010
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Check in. Tom takes a site across from Doug and Germaine, friends of Tom and Lindas, and the people who had bought our little Suzuki Sidekick a year ago. I, elect for a more expensive site right on the beach of the Lake. Toms site is $150 for a week, mine $175. A lesson learned here. You should always check the site , especially if you plan on staying long term. This site when we drove up to it, although on the lake was sooooo small that once in place after forward and back a few times, we found that when we put the slides out we were within inches of our neighbor. On the door side we only had about eight feet to that neighbor. We are disappointed. Well that's an understatement. We were pissed off!!!

I went back to the office and complained and requested a move. At this park there is the waterfront, the area with no waterfront, and then an area up on a high bench with sites backing onto a 5 hole golf course. I had scouted out the whole area with the jeep and when at the office requested a move to the upper bench, site 39. The lady at the desk agreed with me that A40 on the lake was not a good site as it is so small and had no problem with me moving up the hill. It was a cheaper site, but I said I needed no refund as I was just happy to move up there.

By the way, they did return $29 for my cheaper, but better site.

We were back home by about 2:00PM and at the little restaraunt in the park had soft tacos for $1.50 each. Can't beat that!!