Day 3 pictures – Lake Havasu trip

Special thanks goes out to Eric this time for waking us early (5:30am) – his excuse was he did not realise the time difference – right. Thanks Eric.

The Sears blanket (its not that kind of shop) worked an treat and now we’re warm and toasty.

After we left we found a cool single cab on the site, cool and loved obviously – maybe it was the KAO checkin lady with a VW tattoed on her ankle, hmm?

Staying at Flagstaff was good furtune, there was an Autozone down the road which had a load of parts for the bus including another set of points, etc Also got some aluminium tape to cover those heater holes in the tin allowing hot air to re-circulate. So gaps reset, timing reset and we were off (again). Much happier and cooler bus, 60 no problem and uphills now not a problem – amazing. We even overtook our first vehicle on I-40 – they did over take us back again tho – probably when they woke up and realised a 50hp 3300lb vehicle just smoked them – ok we were doing 61 and they were doing 59 but we’re drag race experts now and that was a smokin.

Found a cool trading post that sold (more) Indian stuff – this time we got Indian blankets of different thicknesses – apparently you pay for what you get – $7 is a thin one, and $14 is a thick(er) one. Right. And some hats for the boys. They had a HUGE dream catcher out front of the ‘post’ which we tried to take pics of with the bus. Once done we were off again.

New state - now in New Mexico – yay. 

Today was longer on the road than any other – a staggering 260 miles and we’re exhausted. Still nothing that a few Coronas wont solve, found another KOA site in Grants NM. Ever seen that advert with the weirdo at the desk saying about poor coverage in the end room, ok it was filmed here. Needless to say we’ll make an early start. However Kate has to go and buy NM keychains for the boys so she’s off to talk to her ‘friend’ (she took her pepper spray).

Nowt else to report. More driving tomorrow.

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