Arizona Desert--Boondocking!

I never thought I would be doing this--but we left the luxury of Kris's home to camp in the desert in the BLM areas (Bureau of Land Management)-- "camp areas"that are ALL over the west.  This is called "dispersed camping"...for you brave young wanderers!   It has only a rock fire pit and a dusty road... no water or electricity.  There were about 10 RV's around us and neat scenery.  People are very nice and gave us great information.  We hiked in the desert a short while and back to the RV for "dinner and a movie".  Any experience that can make a man "rave" about how good Tuna Helper is is a winner.   Pete turned our inverter on and we watched DVD of Rainman!

Craggy Wash Ariz. Campsite

We woke up to a saddled horse nearby and Pete explored the situation.  The horse was Anna and her rider was Jeremiah Brinkley who is referenced on the web.  If you want to know more--click the link.
Anyway, he has been riding his horse (this is the fourth one) for 25 years for 30,000 miles with all his belongings on Anna.  He just came from Missouri.  He reads his Bible--"the only book he needs" and taught his horse to eat anything including vegetables, bananas and cinnamon rolls. .. maybe even  from dumpsters. The diet is fortified with desert scrub plants.  He was once stopped on Interstate 40 by a cruiser who pulled him over saying "don't worry, it's not illegal to ride next to the highway, I just couldn't believe anyone would do it and wanted to talk to you"!  Jeremiah was very nice and a bunch of us enjoyed his company.  After we finish touring with the RV, maybe touring on horseback?

Our next adventure

Jeremiah Brinkley at Craggy Wash

Next was 2 hour drive to Lake Havasu City which is a large lake formed by a dam on the Colorado River in the middle of the desert.  It is a huge recreation area made famous by it's London Bridge.  It was torn down in London, brought over here and reconstructed by Mr. McCullouch (famous for chain saws and outboard motors).  It was constructed on totally dry land and then later a canal was dredged from the lake to provide "water under the bridge"! the canal created an island and the bridge goes to the island with beautiful homes.

London Bridge Lake Havasu City

On to the desert town of Quartzsite with beautiful sunset, Saguaro Cactus, and Mesquite trees.  This area is famous for 100,000 RVers who come to spend the winter here.  Right now, nice and quiet.

Quartzsite campsite

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