The drive from Needles to Buckskin Mountain State Park on Tuesday was less than a two hour drive. Gotta love that. The state park sits along the Colorado River and is approximately 12 miles north of Parker, AZ and 27 miles south of Lake Havasu City, AZ. Our site is nice and long and we can see the river from the kitchen and living room windows - very nice. Bad thing is that we have no cell phone coverage. Thankfully, we have our satellite so we do have internet and TV.
Just a short distance up the river is the Parker Dam so the river is slow flowing and very clear in the shallows. Across from the campground, on the California side, there are a number of mobile home/RV parks that fill up with snowbirds (northerners avoiding the snow). Right now, the area is in between the summer water crowd and the arrival of the snowbirds so vacancies are high. We aren't sure what our opinion is of this state park yet but I'm sure we wi'll have a better idea after this weekend.
John was out taking some pictures for the blog when he heard John? His first thought was that it didn't sound like my voice and then he heard, John Prather? That really surprised him and when he turned around he saw a couple of familiar faces - Art and Connie. What a pleasant surprise. We first met Art and Connie in Custer, SD in 2008. At that time, they were doing extended travel but have since gone fulltime. We follow their blog and last read that they were in Nevada and had no idea we would land at the same state park. We spent the evening getting caught up while it rained. We decided it was best to head home during the lull and it was a good thing we did, as we had some real close lightning strikes and it just poured for a while.
