Yes, More Lake Havasu (02-18-14)

  Yes, yes, I know that a week has passed since we were in Lake Havasu City, but I wanted to post some of this information.  Our final hike in the area was to a mine..of course. Just getting to the trailhead involved driving off road for several miles. Our truck, and it’s driver, like to drive off road.

I took this picture a few weeks ago, near Quartzsite, on one of our other off road adventures.

So, once we dropped the truck off,, we headed to Iron Gate Mine.  We weren't really sure what they were  mining for, but it was a decent hike to get there, so we enjoyed it. Total hike- about 6 miles with almost 1000 feet of elevation gain.

Once we reached the entrance, Paul walked to the back of the mine- about 600 feet or so, and I waited for him outside, just the way I like it!

That night was the final night of fireworks.  The moon decided to join the competition, and I must say, it was a worthy competitor.

Some of the displays were really unique and different.  The brightness on the ground that looks like a fire- well, it IS a fire, and several times they had to delay the display in order to put out the ground fires.

Sometimes it seemed that the fires were started because  they couldn't quite reach the height they were looking for and the explosion would take place too close to the ground- like in this picture.








It was all great though, and since we had no where to go, we could relax and wait for the show to start back up again:


    
























From Lake Havasu we headed to Mesa Arizona.  We spent 3 days dusting the rig and going to dentist and doctor appointments. We both got a clean bill of health and need no dental work so we get to relax for a while.

A few days after we arrived, my brother Ray and sister-in-law Dawn flew in for a visit.  Dozer wasted no time staking out his spot on Ray’s lap.

More on that some other time…..