Author: Mary Lesh

After many years of hard work, we finally retired and hit the road.

Vegas Can Wait

This is somewhere in Kingman on our way to a hike.

We opted to stay one more day in Kingman. We found a campground in Vegas from the 3rd til the 7th. Adults only. Woohoo. So, today we set off to take a hike. John found one and we headed over. It really was a beautiful day. The trailhead was called White Cliff Wagon Wheel. As we were driving I decided to get my hair cut at great clips–because I saw one and my hair was driving me nuts. I should have done this before I left for vacation. I really don’t like to use places like this but, John wouldn’t cut it so. Anyway, it came out ok. It definitely feels better.

Hair cut and off we went. The first set of directions took us up the mountains and onto this horrible dirt road only to come to the end on the wrong side of I-40. Looked like they filled in the underpass so we had to go back and drive all around to another underpass to get there. Luckily it was a beautiful day and we had nothing better to do. I must say, this trip has been so relaxing.

  • This is on private property (well at the entrance) Not sure if the car had those bullet holes before they placed it there or if they used the car for target practice.

After this trail we headed into the historic town of Kingman where route 66 runs through. It is an adorable town. That’s where the quilt stores were. I got a picture of Connies and of course a video driving down. There was also a Santa Fe engine and Caboose at a park. John had to go inside the engine.

I made a short video driving down the road in Kingman. https://youtu.be/qstI4PWmHW8

After spending the day just tooling around we went back to camp where John hung out with our host and I continued to update our blog and facebook and all that stuff. I was working. Then we sat on our hosts front porch and watched the quail–waiting for a roadrunner who never made his appearance. We also had a visit from a desert wren.

And that was pretty much our day.

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London Bridge Isn’t Falling Down

There it is in all it’s glory in Havasu, AZ

Today we started off planning to go to the Grand Canyon West Skywalk but first we had to go into town to get gas. While heading in the opposite direction I started reading about the skywalk. We thought it was just a walk along the west rim of the Grand Canyon. Apparently it is a glass walkway. Aside from the fact it is a glass walkway which I have no interest in, no pets are allowed. So we decided to head to Havasu to see the London Bridge. We had an early start as we woke to the sunrise at 5:20 am.

This was looking out our door this morning at 5:20.

Anyway, onward to Havasu. The London Bridge was purchased in 1964 by Robert P. McCulloch, Sr. for $2.46 million, then dismantled and shipped by boat from England to the U.S. It was rebuilt on a peninsula on Lake Havasu in 1971 for an additional $5.1 million. A channel was excavated under the bridge, and a replica English Village was built next to it. The opening of the London Bridge in October 1971 brought the world’s largest antique to the area, a world-famous attraction that continues to draw tens of thousands of sightseers to Lake Havasu City. ( taken from https://www.golakehavasu.com/media-room/fact-sheet/)

The last one is Chanel waiting patiently for John to come out of the visitor center.

Since we got such an early start and still had no real plans we decided to head for Peach Spring. We saw some great pictures of a river and views. So we headed there. It took about an hour and a half. We arrived in Peach Spring which in on a reservation but could not find the river. We really need to do more research before we head out because the pictures are about 2 hours from Peach Spring. You can get the natives to take you on a bus to the river to go tubing or rafting and touring. Again, that wasn’t our plan. We really like to explore on our own, take some short hikes (at least for me) and take some pictures. On our way back we stopped at Hackberry. A small town on old Rte 66 that has an old gas station turned tourist trap.

After checking it out we headed back to camp where I caught up on some blog posts and John helped our boondocker host do some repairs on something.

Later, John and I went out to eat at Sundowner’s Saloon. It was really good and the staff was really friendly.

Tomorrow we are suppose to head to Las Vegas but, we’ll see. We haven’t found a campground yet. We may stay here another day or two.

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Kingman AZ

Our arrival in Kingman, AZ came with an unexpected breakdown. Luckily for us, David Steffen saw smoke coming from the trailer tires and waved us down. We had no clue. He thought the brakes locked but John saw it was a lost bearing. David and his mom and dad, not only stayed around to help, they ran to the store for tools while John and I ran to pick up parts. This entire ordeal took about 3 hours and they stuck with us the entire time. Even offered to let John shower at their house. Wouldn’t take a dime from us. OMG how lucky/blessed can you get? I can’t believe there are such wonderful people out there.

We finally made it to our destination 3.5 hours later than anticipated but, we were safe. We had some leftover tacos and went to bed. John had trouble sleeping because he couldn’t stop thinking about the bearing because he could not get a new race or new drum when he bought the bearing. I don’t know what he is talking about but, we spent the day finding the right parts and then he actually found a place that pressed the old races out and replaces the whatever it was we needed. All John had to do was put it all back together and we were set. And now he has another set just in case. That meant we only had time to visit a couple quilt stores that day.

This was Donna’s Quilt Store and I bought this beautiful Hummingbird panel. I just told Bridget she needs to order this because I want to make more than one quilt with this. Sorry I did not take a picture of the other store. I bought fabric but from the outside I thought it looked like an antique store and thought maybe the quilt store went out of business.

We opted to order out last night but everything seemed to be chain restaurants so we got Indian food. It was a hole in the wall place, Brothers Indian that was highly recommended in Yelp and it was delicious. On the way home we had some beautiful sunset views. The last one is looking outside our camper door.

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