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Monday, November 15, 2010

Back in Buckskin Park, AZ.

Nov. 15, 2010

We left Laughlin yesterday morning for Buckskin Park, Parker, Arizona.  We took the parkway bypass through Bullhead City heading south and it was a quicker with no traffic lights.  We had a huge tailwind so Eric was using the brakes going up hill!  On through Needles, California to get to the I40 and since it was a last minute change of route we just followed the signs through Needles.  Always a treat as the US signage never gives you I40 East or I40 West they just give you the next town you will hit.  So, we thought we had gone the wrong way as Kingman was the town shown at the freeway entrance and it is back up north by Bullhead City but it is also the next major town on the I40 going east.  Confusing, you bet!  The MapPoint GPS showed a different entrance but we followed the signs and managed anyway.  On down to Lake Havasu and then Parker and Buckskin Park.  Lake Havasu is a long drawn out affair with a billion traffic lights that have no warnings for red so at 55mph it is always a screech to a halt.  Much swearing!  Next time we may head straight south from Needles to Blythe and see if that is better.  It is lovely here at Buckskin with good hiking, bicycle riding and it is at the edge of the river so also very picturesque.  If it was this warm all winter we would could stay here but it is not and cools down with frost at night over the winter .  Next stop will be Ajo in preparation for crossing the border.  We don’t think we want to wait for the group heading back to Las Jaibas who will head into Mexico at the beginning of December so we will probably just go by ourselves, at least to San Carlos where lots of people will be heading south and we may find someone to hook up with.  If not, we’ll just go on our own.  Eric does not like the thought of a big convoy, one or two more okay but too cumbersome over that.  So we are starting to settle into our winter lifestyle but as usual find we never have enough to do.  Mazatlan is better for us with swimming, bicycles, walking, motorcycling and fishing to keep up occupied.  Plus, there are the 80F temps that are very appealing.  So, that is our loose plan at present and we’ll see what happens.  Today we’ll go to Parker for groceries, have lunch at the Crossroads Cafe (a favorite) and then just relax.  Sounds good.     As we were just here back in April there are lots of pictures of this area on that post.               

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