YIKES-----100 DEGREES !!!!!

April 26, 2017

It was too early to go home because of all the rain, so we decided to go to Bullhead City, AZ for  2 weeks.  I thought Palm Springs was windy, but I think Bullhead City is worse. At least in Palm Springs it was calm in the morning and got windier as the day went on. Here in Bullhead City,  sometimes it is windy even when we get up and then gets worse. I will say, we love the warm weather, but are getting a little tired of the wind.  I'm talking about high winds of 25 mph and higher, with gusts up to 40-60 MPH.  It also means I have to do more cooking inside. When it is so windy, Denny can't grill outside. The wind blows the fire out. Darn!!

One day last week it was 100 degrees. That is a tad hot for us. Luckily, we had gone to Kingman, about 30 miles from here for most  of the day.   It was a little cooler there.   After we get home from being out all day, we usually sit outside, relax and have happy hour, but certainly can't do that when it is 100 degrees!!!

We have never been here, so there were new things to see and do. We went to see Davis Dam, a rock and earth dam that supplies electricity to a lot of AZ and NV.  It is isn't quite as spectacular as a concrete dam like Hoover, but still very interesting.  If you put all of the rock and earthfill in boxes, 3 cu ft sq, they would reach from Los Angeles to Chicago, 3, 642, 000 cubic yards total.

Davis Dam Power Plant

Davis Dam

Lake Mohave, can see the start of Davis Dam on the lower left

Also saw the Petroglyphs at Grapevine Canyon, about 6 miles west of Bullhead City. It makes you wonder what these symbols meant to the Indian tribes. They are about 1000 years old.

There are a lot of petroglyphs on the tall rock formations on the right. You wonder how in the world they even got up to the top. Can't really tell from the picture, but it is at least 20-25 ft to the top.

We also went to a car museum in Laughlin, NV, just over the bridge from Bullhead City.  As we travel around, my interests are in history (Petroglyphs and the Civil War)  and Denny's are Air, Car and Space museums. Also anything to do with science and the earth. Here we had both. 

I have never heard of a marriage trap, maybe the bride and groom traveled to the wedding in it ???  It could be yours for a mere $143, 750

Looking at the cars below, we have certainly come a long way!! Thank heavens

  1915 Ford Speedster

1935 Ford

1907 Red Runabout

1875 Hand Drawn Fire  Hose Cart

1963 Studebaker, looks so weird without a front grille. Thought I was looking at the trunk

1965 Harley

1995  Tropica electric car, didn't realize they had one this early. has Lithium batteries and gets 250 miles on one charge

Since the car museum is in a casino, it also included several slot machines. This is the earliest I saw,   a 1915 model

Here are two flags that we have never seen before.

This flag contains all the names of people that died in the 9-11 terrorists attacks

This flag contains all the names of the emergency personnel that died saving lives in the 9-11 terrorists attacks.  Both of these flags were quite moving to see, as we looked at them, we couldn't even speak.