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| You might think that I really knew what I was doing eh?  | Lake Havasu site. Nice weather but it was cold. No pools open here... sigh | 
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| You can put up with cool weather as long as the sky is BLUE! | Kind of a neat dam over the Colorado river. It creates Lake Havasu. | 
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| The highway south goes right over the dam. | On the left ... Lake Havasu and on the right is the Colorado River that heads south past Parker and Blythe ...eventually hits Mexico | 
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| The road is actually better than it appears here, we are on our way to an old gold mining town of Oatman. | Blue Sky and desert ... what a beautiful contrast eh? | 
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| Of course we were singing "On Route 66" All we needed was a Corvette | First house on the way into town. | 
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| We rather enjoyed the comment here! | Just on the way in to town ... cactus always cactus | 
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| This is Downtown Oatman. Lots of tacky souvenir shops, but somehow it did not lose its sense of authenticity. | Mules every where. Apparently they are wild but you can buy bags of carrots to feed them. Mother Peanut and they cleverly named the baby, Butter | 
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| 1 week old Charlie with Mom | Where's the food? | 
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| Had lunch here. Not bad food and a cowboy singer to entertain. | Walls covered with dollar bills ... not really original, but did add to the atmosphere. | 
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| He did prefer to sing the old twangy songs but was still excellent! | Supposedly world's best chile served here. Must be good as by the time I got out my camera, Elsie had snarfled it all. | 
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| A desert Christmas tree. Several of these along the road back to Havasu. | I look pretty calm eh? Don't be fooled ... | 
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| The desert does have a beauty of its own! | Heading to Desert Hot Springs, in the Coachella Valley, on the I 10. | 
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| This is in the Sidewinder in Desert Hot Springs. Cast of delinquents left to right ... Me, Patsy, Mark, Betty and John. Elsie took the picture | This is in the Lutes Casino in old town Yuma. Again Elsie took the picture and left to right Me, Gary and Janice. |