Free camping - we love it
We left home at about 9:30 and planned to stop at Lake Havasu City. This would give us a leisurely day – no pressure. Other than gas prices and my cruise control – problems but more later – it was a very nice day, great temps and slightly overcast. The coach ran great – I think the air dam work that I did after last summer’s problems has made a big difference.
We had planned on camping on BLM land just north of Lake Havasu City. Carol called the BLM office and he sort of told us where to camp but we didn’t like what we saw when we got there. Actually, the first sign we saw said the camp area was two miles down a dirt road and I know we have seen RVs parked closer to the road than that in this area. We pulled off at a likely looking dirt road and figured that there must be a flat spot available but noooooo. We came close to getting stuck – I wasn’t too worried though because we have the Tracker to help pull us out with 4-wheel drive so long as we didn’t go too far.
A killer 360 degree view from our porch
After we gave up on that area we headed north on 95 and within a mile or so we came to what we thought was BLM land but turned out to be something of a gravel pit but there were other people there who had been there for one or more months.
It was a very cool and quiet night. We will do this again. The only issue was that our new Verizon air card internet access would not work. It was some sort of technical issue with their network but I don’t know yet what was wrong – no internet on the first night of the trip I bought it for – dang it. Luckily, the fabulous views were much more fun to look at than the computer screen!
Sunset at Lake Havasu "BLM" campsite
