February 28th

Market day today.  Every Saturday, the south end of the park turns into a large market.  Everything from solar panels, to fresh vegetables, to refurbished engine blocks.  I took a look through the market on the Runner, which worked well; nice to have the height in a crowd.  Nancy & Kirk made the rounds, then Nancy dropped Kirk back at camp with me and made a serious pass.  

There’s front moving in, rain later tomorrow, and very windy and dusty today.  As a consequence, we didn’t do a lot more today.  We did go for a cruise north towards Lake Havasu and checked out Cattail Cove State Park.  Lots are tight, and little vegetation.  It did have a boat launch on Lake Havasu (ie, upstream of Parker Dam) and you could boat to 32 primitive campsites on the Lake.  If you had a boat.  

It bears mentioning what a paradise this is for gearheads.  Quads and Razors abound, we went to the local restaurant, and there were 8 or 10 razors in the parking lot.  There was a group in the campground with serious off-road jeeps, like, nothing left stock, very expensive, hard core, off-road machines.  The Razor-style machines are morphing into large 4 passenger, long suspension travel buggies that are hard to tell from full blown off-road racers.  There are no restrictions on the boats, and more than half seem to be large V8 above water exhaust bellowing beasts.  It can be noisy, but I well understand motorized fun; it all quiets down at night.  Must be a zoo here in the summer, however.

Plan on taking the Accord north to Lake Havasu City tomorrow, to see if we want to migrate further north.