Island Inn - Lake Havasu City

If you are reading this, and we warned you not to, here is why....<br><br>When we left the Grand Canyon we drove for a few hours that night and stayed in lovely Needles, California, right on the border of Arizona. So thats it, just where we slept for the night, before we headed up to Yosemite National Park.<br><br>We just wanted our map to be accurate, hence the reason for this post.<br><br>Till Yosemite, a real post you can read.<br><br>Nic and Jess<br>

... their actual slogan by the way. We had another unscheduled hike along the natural beeches, through a cactus garden, saw a few hares and chipmunks, spoke to a Yugoslavian religious fanatic, bathed in the smell of **** as Paul mentioned. And to cap it off, beat Paul at chess in just over an hour. Gotta watch that Queen Paul, or i'll have my way with her everytime heh heh. <br>

Enroute to Grand Canyon, we made a quick pit-stop at Lake Havasu City, to break the journey and to visit the original London Bridge. The City of London sold the bridge to the founder of Lake Havasu and it was dismantled in the UK and reassembled in the USA brick by brick. The bridge looks just like the one in London, just more pristine. <br><br>Urban legend has it that the silly American actually intended to purchase Tower Bridge, but thought that it was called London Bridge.<br><br><br><br>

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... any discrimination to equal protection of the law.<br>8. Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted by the constitution or by law.<br>9. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.<br>10. Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing with an independent and impartial jury.<br>11. Everyone charged with a penal offense has the right to be presumed innocent ...

... s encore performance. Our host family, Donna and Herb, and Donna's friend, Barbara, really enjoyed the performance and are going to try to come back tonight! Yay!<br><br>I saw my friend, Jamie Kirkpatrick, last night as well. Jamie was my freshman year orientation leader at Concordia and is now an 8th grade English teacher in Lake Havasu. It was so wonderful to see Jamie last night :) I haven't seen her since she ...

We took the dogs with us so they didn't have to stay outside in the heat and left early in the morning. The drive was short and uneventful and we arrived around noon. <br><br>The boys spent most of the time out in the garage with Papa working on the Toyota and the Bronco. Wyatt learned some more welding skills and Patrick proved his talent as a mechanic like he always does ...

After lunch, mom and I headed to see the world famous London Bridge. In 1968 Robert McCulloch, founder of Lake Havasu City, purchased the London Bridge. Since London Bridge was falling down :-) (actually it was sinking) the British was more than happy to sell the bridge for $2.46 million. Another unique note on the sale...to avoid property tax, the sale was conducted as an antique purchase ...

... of Pheonix using ancient map technolgy as the GPS does not want to pick up a fix. Finally out on route 10 heading to Havasu, more mountains and desert cactus. Stopping in Vicksburg at a flea market I buy a nice magnetic bracelet with turquoise stones, we have lunch and off we go again. Down the desert road we find a '90s Vanagon Westy stopped along the side. We stop to see if they are needing help. Quebec plates bring out my french only to find out no they are from Massachusetts and ...

The drive down to Quartzsite is probably one of the most boring I've ever done on any travel - a very straight highway all the way down, hardly touching any pedal in the car. At Quartzsite (famous for selling gems and stuff), we took the 95 up to Parker (and its Dam on the Colorado River), and then on to Lake Havasu. Lake Hazasu is famous for two things - The original London Bridge (the newer one I walk over every day for work) and Spring Break. We were there for the first reason. It ...