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There's a Brit-themed shopping complex at the bridge with this great fountain
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Lake Havasu City is best known as the home of the London Bridge, first built in London in 1831, rebuilt here in 1971
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Never pass up a great sunset . . . .
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Hanging from the ceiling at Waldo's BBQ at the Lake Havasu City Airport
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Looking for a sewer blockage. Took them 4 days to find, flush and fix. We managed . . .
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Looking across the Colorado River into California, near Parker AZ
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Parker Dam creates Lake Havasu. It's the tallest dam in the US top to bottom - about 400ft below the waterline to bedrock
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There are many RV resorts along the Colorado . . .
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Lots of boondock camping in the Arizona desert. We need to try that sometime . . .
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Inside, delightful displays of the native culture
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A model of the bridge accompanies displays of the construction
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We like almost any museum . . .
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Downtown during Winterfest, a diggerie-doo maker shows off his wares
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The Realtor uses this old Amphicar to show off waterfront properties
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Winterfest is a street fair that closes off four blocks of downtown. Lots of stuff for sale
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Small town, lots of road work, nice big rock
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Headed south toward Yuma, and lots of boondockers adorn the desert near Quartzsite
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From Yuma, a short jaunt into Mexico. Terri Schreiner checks to make sure Judy's following
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Some of the non-tourist areas aren't very busy at all
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There are lots of dentists and lots of street vendors in Los Algodones
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We had a great lunch in an open-air cafe with several hundred other gringos
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There's Terri and Lynn . . . .
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And us . . .
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Near Yuma, murals on water tanks
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At the Arizona Marketplace, a lot of flea market vendors, one with this great stool
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There are several hundred vendors in the flea market, and lots of customers (including us)
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At the restored Yuma Quartermaster Depot, you can see the original adobe construction
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This is believed to be the oldest European residential structure in Arizona - the old commandant's home
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A great old Ford on some pieces of the old plank road that crossed the sand dunes West of Yuma
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There's even an old RR car, in great need of restoration . . .
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We couldn't resist a visit to a Camel Ranch
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They also have the curious Jacob 4-horned sheep . . .
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And some very friendly Barbados sheep
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As sheep go, these are great horns . . .
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They are also great beggars
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It's a Zeedonk, of course - mama was a donkey, papa was an amorous zebra.
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A Golden Pheasant is absolutely gorgous. This one posed professionally for us
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George is a black-footed ferret with white feet. Very friendly . . .
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It's actually an exotic animal ranch, but they do have camels
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This old guy let out the most outstanding belch. Sounded like distant, slobbery thunder
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Most of the animals were accomplished beggars, like these Fallow Deer
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The tortoise wasn't much interested in anything we could offer
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These goat twins were less than 24 hours old. The rear one still had his/her umbillicus. Awww . . ..
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They make the best fudge - 30+ flavors, too. Good thing we left Yuma when we did . .
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As we headed for Castle Rock and an old mining area, we spotted this - an Aerostat - a Border Patrol surveillance balloon
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Back to heading toward Castle Dome (on the left), crossing the US Army's Yuma Proving Grounds.
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We didn't leave the road. No way.
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The Castle Dome Mining District was the first major silver mining area in North America
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First mined by the Spaniards, it's now a tourist attraction as a semi-restored Ghost Town
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These are not historical. They are the only facilities in the village. One for each gender, we guess
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When we were there, they had a lot of period re-enactors about
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This lady is making a quilt for her grandkids in Utah
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This guy took himself way too seriously . . .
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Occasionally, they'd do a little play-acting, and somebody would get shot
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The buildings are almost all relocated from around the area
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They do a fair number of weddings here. The pipes are all real, but not connected
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The village office was built from recycled vegetable crates
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That's Castle Dome, for which the area is named
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There were seven shafts to the Castle Dome Mine, and that's one of them
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The owner, Allan, led us on a walking tour
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Most of the graves in the old cemetary are unmarked . .
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Allen's been down all 7 shafts, but doesn't work the mine
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But he says there's still LOTS of silver down there.
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There are still a few buildings around the mine - this one's a bunkhouse
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Meanwhile, back in the village, the player piano got a good workout
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That's the largest silver nugget Allan's found - about 300 pounds
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We found it took at least four cooks to fix a hot dog . . .
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Judy says we cannot comment on the cactus.
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Returning later, we saw the balloon was being brought down
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It mated with that nose cone, and apparently rode out the coming storm
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Back in Yuma, these folks grow dates and make delicious date shakes. Just down the road from the RV park
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We think the date palms are convinced to be short to make harvest easier
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We went to downtown Yuma to find the art musuem and stumbled into a street market
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We'll end on this guy serenading the fruits and vegetables . . .