Not many of you have heard of Earp, CA, right?
Ok, keep it that way. Then there'll be always room for us if we want to unwind after a strenuous journey past and through America's highlights ;)
And visit my cousin!
It's weird. When holidaying in Europa we're always 'on our own'. As soon as we travel intercontinental it's to my family (Australia, Canada, America) and very dear friends (aforementioned countries plus Indonesia).
Visiting your relatives should be normal procedure. For me it's not, but when I finally get to see them you bet it's part of an amazing holiday.
I have seen my cousin Wendy three times in my life.
So not quite enough time spend together to really get to know your nearest and dearest, right?
Therefore I was very happy to learn that Wendy would be in California when we were there. We made arrangements, we would stay for almost a week in our own cabin at the Resort where she and her friend Yvonne stay during the winter.
With her own boat.
Now I've been taken to lunch by cousin Paul flying a plane, here we were taken to dinner by boat on the Colorado river.
Ok, I might not see my beloved family as much as I'd want to (to be exact, I hardly see them at all) but this is quite some compensation of course.
During our stay at the Riverland Resort we toured Lake Havasu via the Parker dam, spend half a day on the river - yes, we got seriously sunburned - to see two dams in the Colorado river (the river has dams all over the place), strolled late afternoon through the desert and visited the remains of Swansea, an old mining city, an hrs. drive from Earp and only accessible by 4WD.
In between we sat on our veranda doing nothing.
We slept like a log, breakfasted on fruit and dined on simple salads.
All this with day time temps. reaching 30C (and up), at night 10 degrees or so less.
Imagine, you Dutch, I don't want to make you jealous, absolutely not, but at nine in the morning the temperature was just about perfect: not yet the heat of the day, a little cool, say 21C...
So that was 4 days of bliss and the sort of holiday we actually never experience: we're always busy doing something, visiting people, seeing things, going somewhere.
Well, that's why we visit other countries of course.
Not here. We just stopped doing whatever. There was so much to see and do, but we actually did near to nothing and very much enjoyed living in slow mo.
I read a magazine or two.
I swam in the Colorado river.
And the night we arrived I won twice at the Resort's Bingo!
Ok, keep it that way. Then there'll be always room for us if we want to unwind after a strenuous journey past and through America's highlights ;)
And visit my cousin!
It's weird. When holidaying in Europa we're always 'on our own'. As soon as we travel intercontinental it's to my family (Australia, Canada, America) and very dear friends (aforementioned countries plus Indonesia).
Visiting your relatives should be normal procedure. For me it's not, but when I finally get to see them you bet it's part of an amazing holiday.
I have seen my cousin Wendy three times in my life.
So not quite enough time spend together to really get to know your nearest and dearest, right?
Therefore I was very happy to learn that Wendy would be in California when we were there. We made arrangements, we would stay for almost a week in our own cabin at the Resort where she and her friend Yvonne stay during the winter.
With her own boat.
Now I've been taken to lunch by cousin Paul flying a plane, here we were taken to dinner by boat on the Colorado river.
Ok, I might not see my beloved family as much as I'd want to (to be exact, I hardly see them at all) but this is quite some compensation of course.
During our stay at the Riverland Resort we toured Lake Havasu via the Parker dam, spend half a day on the river - yes, we got seriously sunburned - to see two dams in the Colorado river (the river has dams all over the place), strolled late afternoon through the desert and visited the remains of Swansea, an old mining city, an hrs. drive from Earp and only accessible by 4WD.
In between we sat on our veranda doing nothing.
We slept like a log, breakfasted on fruit and dined on simple salads.
All this with day time temps. reaching 30C (and up), at night 10 degrees or so less.
Imagine, you Dutch, I don't want to make you jealous, absolutely not, but at nine in the morning the temperature was just about perfect: not yet the heat of the day, a little cool, say 21C...
So that was 4 days of bliss and the sort of holiday we actually never experience: we're always busy doing something, visiting people, seeing things, going somewhere.
Well, that's why we visit other countries of course.
Not here. We just stopped doing whatever. There was so much to see and do, but we actually did near to nothing and very much enjoyed living in slow mo.
I read a magazine or two.
I swam in the Colorado river.
And the night we arrived I won twice at the Resort's Bingo!
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