More Boondocking with Boomers

Frank slid behind the wheel of the motor home to travel north 150 miles on US 95. Our good friends Lin and Lynn Ford traveled closely behind us in their "home on wheels". We all arrived around 4:30 pm at our destination "the Steps", just south of Lake Havasu City. Where we were warmly greeted by boomer friends and backed into our boondocking site over looking Lake Havasu in the distance.

Lynn and Linda Ford

The London Bridge-Lake Havasu

Friday found the Fords and us visiting Lake Havasu City, home to the world famous London Bridge which crosses a 930 ft long man-made canal that leads from Lake Havasu (on the Colorado River) to Thompson Bay. It was bought for US $2.5 million by Robert McCulloch, founder of Lake Havasu City from the City of London when the bridge was replaced in 1968 because it as the ditty exclaims it was "falling down". The bridge was disassembled, each stone marked, then everything was shipped 10,000 miles to Long Beach, California, and then trucked to Lake Havasu City and reassembled for another US $7 million. Reconstruction began on September 23, 1968 and on October 10, 1971, the bridge was dedicated. Prior to the arrival of the bridge, the land upon which the bridge was placed was a peninsula. A large dredge was used to carve a one-mile channel, removing over two million cubic yards of rock and earth in the construction phase. Water was then diverted from the lake, under the bridge and then back into the lake through Thompson Bay.

An interesting piece of trivia, the London Bridge is the second most visited tourist attraction in Arizona, behind only the Grand Canyon.