March 16: Leaving Havasu to pickup Gene

 

Another perfect sunset over the lake

So the last 2 weeks in Lake Havasu was all about getting the Whale ready, getting Barbie mobile, sunsets and great live music.

Great Motown funk band at Mustang Sally

Hike into the desert to find the bat caves of Havasu - never found them...

Creating a market.  Dentist advertising in a flea market with a bowl of candy on the table

Todd Winston services - giving the Whale a wash

The start of Spring Break - big event in Havasu and the average age drops for 3 weeks by about 50%

Another great band at Mustang Sally's

Unfortunately the shop could not get Barbie to run (a bad carburetor, but I ordered a new one) and the money pit got a bit more money...

On Wednesday, March13 I headed out for Burbank, California to where our friends Greg and Loretta (who I had met in October in Rincon) stays.  Fun ride - mostly downhill - and I did not even feel Barbie behind the Whale.

Abandoned town - Desert Center

Growing palm trees in the desert... what else can you do

Crossing the Colorado river into California

Last night at Lake Havasu State Park and ready to go

 Stopped for a night at the General Patton tank museum at Chiriaco Summit.

In Burbank with Greg and his RV

There is snow on them mountains out there...

The free dry campsite behind the museum

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed - Eisenhower

Last part of Lake Havasu city is the cactus garden where I tried to learn the names of some of the local plant species