Monday, November 18, 2013 (Lake Havasu City, AZ)

We woke to sunny skies. We slept in a bit so decided to skip our workout routine today. The morning got off to a bit of a rocky start with Rich calling Verizon to increase our data usage as we were notified we were close to exceeding our data for the month. Long story short, after two lengthy phone calls with Verizon, we found out that because we purchased our new "jet pack hotspot" before our monthly billing cycle was finished, that somehow Verizon prorated our data usage and we had gone over and were going to be penalized for the month even though Rich had called and increased our data for the month. None of it made much sense and it was very frustrating, so we’ll have to see what our bill looks like next month, ugh. So it looks like I won’t be posting to the blog until after the 21^st.

So after our breakfast, we got into the pack up mode. For some reason, we didn’t get on the road until around 11:00 a.m., not sure what took up the extra time this morning as we usually are leaving around 10:30 on our travel days. Our destination is Lake Havasu City which is around 160 miles and about 3 hours travel time. We don’t have reservations anywhere but are headed to Lake Havasu State Park.  This is unusual for us, we'll have to see how this works out.

We had an uneventful drive except the banks power monitor showed a check engine light. Hmmm, we’ll have to get that checked out, this is different than the check engine light the truck showed.

We arrived in Lake Havasu City around 2:00 but it was really 3:00 because of the time change. We were following our "trusty" GPS and it took us out of town and turning on this road with no State Park signs, yikes, not getting a very good feeling about this. We saw a police officer sitting alongside the road, so stopped and asked him where the State Park was and yep, we are not at all in the right location it is back in town a couple miles. Well at least the road that the GPS had us on looped back to the highway so we didn’t end up getting stuck anywhere. Getting stuck with no place to turn around is always a concern when travelling with the 5er.

We finally found the state park and drove around and looked at the vacant sites available and weren’t impressed at all. The park looked like it had been torn up and was still under construction. They had just added electrical hookups to all the sites this summer so maybe that was part of the reason. There wasn’t water or sewer at the sites, and if you chose a water site you had to add on an extra $5 which made the total $35/night. Hmmm, wonder how much a rv park would cost. So we made a quick call and found a park just down the road where we could have a pull through site on the water with electric/water connections for $40/night. We’ll take it. We have totally gone over our budget this month in our campground category, we’ll have to make it up in another category.

So we found the Crazy Horse Campground and got checked in and headed to our site. It was pretty tight pulling into it and the sand looked a little scary at first, but we made it in and the 5er didn’t sink in, so we are good to go. The site is much nicer than the state park so I’m glad we made the change.

By the time we got everything all set up, it was pushing 5:00 p.m. and the sun was going down.

We did take time for a quick walk around the lower part of the campground. We ran into a lady walking her dog and stopped to chat and she and her husband have been coming to the park for the last 7 years and they stay until April. The monthly rate is pretty reasonable and includes two gray/black tank pump outs a week.   Not too sure about how good that would be on your tank systems to have them pumped out so much, you'd have to watch the company very carefully to make sure they didn't break anything.

After a quick and easy dinner, we just relaxed the rest of the evening. Tomorrow we’ll go exploring the rest of the park and the town.