Summering in the desert is probably the second biggest mistake I've ever made. 116* in theory, you think you can cowgirl up; in reality you feel like you've been really bad and now you've died and gone to Hell. My advice: don't do it. Just don't.
There is no cell service here. Like, none. This also means our hotspots don't work, so we're relying on the resort's wifi, which is spotty. It's kind of amazing that an area of 50,000 residents and umpteen bazillion tourists wouldn't have cell coverage. And it's not just Verizon - our bartender assured us that no carrier has service in this area and everyone has....ready?...land lines. I haven't even seen a land line in years. They're like pay phones where you take a picture of it - "Ooh, a roadside oddity!"
And what's with these freaking RV parks that lie on their website? Not having cell coverage would have been nice to know, but they also lied about their RV sites having a lake view. It says "Our accommodating RV Park has over 120 full hook-up spaces, each with an overlooking lakefront view. " This is a lie. As far as I can tell, none of their RV sites has a lake view. Also their resort map is highly misleading. Makes it look like you're a lot closer to the pool, bath house, laundry, etc, than you really are.
I had a heat stroke meltdown not long after we arrived and sobbed for a few minutes. It was quite dramatic. Monello fixed me an ice water (thanks, babe
) and I calmed down, realizing that wasting moisture and salt wasn't a good idea.
On the plus side, we are a very short walk to one of the little private beaches they have dotted around. And the mountains are quite beautiful. Heading up 95 surrounded with these enormous prehistoric mountains, you feel like you're in another time....and then out of nowhere a large blue lake appears. We took no pics of Phoenix because, well, there was nothing to see, but Lake Havasu appears to have many photogenic spots.
Being on the lake like this, we planned on fishing and kayaking and paddleboarding and playing, but I'm pretty sure the extreme heat will curtail a lot of that. I'm also concerned about leaving Apollo alone because if the power goes out for some reason he will die in about 15 minutes. Yet people in Hell...I mean, Arizona...have pets so clearly I'm the only neurotic who worries about things like that.
This is a golf cart community, so we're going to have to see about renting one of those while we're here. Normally we'd bike around, but that's not going to happen in this heat in this hilly RV park.
Our freaking badass ancestors lived in these places WITHOUT A/C!!! I am constantly in awe of them.
There is no cell service here. Like, none. This also means our hotspots don't work, so we're relying on the resort's wifi, which is spotty. It's kind of amazing that an area of 50,000 residents and umpteen bazillion tourists wouldn't have cell coverage. And it's not just Verizon - our bartender assured us that no carrier has service in this area and everyone has....ready?...land lines. I haven't even seen a land line in years. They're like pay phones where you take a picture of it - "Ooh, a roadside oddity!"
And what's with these freaking RV parks that lie on their website? Not having cell coverage would have been nice to know, but they also lied about their RV sites having a lake view. It says "Our accommodating RV Park has over 120 full hook-up spaces, each with an overlooking lakefront view. " This is a lie. As far as I can tell, none of their RV sites has a lake view. Also their resort map is highly misleading. Makes it look like you're a lot closer to the pool, bath house, laundry, etc, than you really are.
I had a heat stroke meltdown not long after we arrived and sobbed for a few minutes. It was quite dramatic. Monello fixed me an ice water (thanks, babe
) and I calmed down, realizing that wasting moisture and salt wasn't a good idea.On the plus side, we are a very short walk to one of the little private beaches they have dotted around. And the mountains are quite beautiful. Heading up 95 surrounded with these enormous prehistoric mountains, you feel like you're in another time....and then out of nowhere a large blue lake appears. We took no pics of Phoenix because, well, there was nothing to see, but Lake Havasu appears to have many photogenic spots.
Being on the lake like this, we planned on fishing and kayaking and paddleboarding and playing, but I'm pretty sure the extreme heat will curtail a lot of that. I'm also concerned about leaving Apollo alone because if the power goes out for some reason he will die in about 15 minutes. Yet people in Hell...I mean, Arizona...have pets so clearly I'm the only neurotic who worries about things like that.
This is a golf cart community, so we're going to have to see about renting one of those while we're here. Normally we'd bike around, but that's not going to happen in this heat in this hilly RV park.
Our freaking badass ancestors lived in these places WITHOUT A/C!!! I am constantly in awe of them.
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