2025-26 Trip to the Southwest, Day 120

Day 120, Sunday, February 15, 2026 - Sara Rodeo Grounds, Lake Havasu City, AZ, Day 7 - 0 Miles, 3,576.4 Miles for the Trip

55°F overnight, 60°F for my morning walk, 67°F by noon and the high for the day was 74°F.

Another show last night. They didn't include a drone display, but lots of fireworks.

Paula took a photo of us watching & photographing the fireworks:

Cathy, Me, and Mike

As usual, many more photos at today's LakeshoreImages page.

I watched Mike & Cathy pack up & head out. They offered their slot next to Paula's Escape 21, but I think I'll stay here. A mix of clear sky & clouds with a steady wind & gusts to 30MPH. I sat outside reading for most of the afternoon.

Around 3:00 I headed to the showers. Paula packed up her trailer and headed out around 3:30, planning to drive about 1/2 way home to save a 9 hour drive tomorrow. I spent the rest of the afternoon doing more sitting outside reading.

I was planning o eat at the food truck, but it was closed. On the other hand, Scoops Ice Cream was open. Unfortunately, they were out of Cappuccino Crunch, the wonderful flavor I had yesterday, so I had to settle for strawberry. Good, but not as good as Cappuccino Crunch. Of course that meant eating dinner backwards with dessert first, but I'm an adult and allowed.

Dinner was a Lean Cuisine Orange Chicken Bowl.

2025-26 Trip to the Southwest, Day 119

Day 119, Saturday, February 14, 2026 - Sara Rodeo Grounds, Lake Havasu City, AZ, Day 6 - 0 Miles, 3,576.4 Miles for the Trip

49°F overnight, 55°F for my morning walk, 65°F by noon and the high for the day was 72°F.

Last night's fireworks included a couple of full shows. A beautiful evening sky, and they started individual rounds before dark. I split up the images by aspect ratio to make them fit better. They did a fancy drone display that I caught the end of.  Many more photos on today's LakeshoreImages page.

While there was plenty of sun for the morning walk, it was still a bit cool. I wore a long sleeve shirt & my vest, although by the time I finished, I didn't need the vest.

Most of the day was spent outside reading. 

Dinner was the barbecue which was not worth the $22.00 it cost. On the other hand, the Scoops Ice Cream Truck, while it had a long & slow line, had great ice cream.

Until Next Time -

2025-26 Trip to the Southwest, Day 118

Day 118, Friday, February 13, 2026 - Sara Rodeo Grounds, Lake Havasu City, AZ, Day 5 - 0 Miles, 3,576.4 Miles for the Trip

56°F overnight, 60°F for my morning walk, 67°F by noon and the high for the day was 73°F.

Heavy clouds this morning so that even at 60°F, it felt cool for my walk. 

I took some photos of last night's demo fireworks while sitting around Paula's campfire. More photos on today's LakeshoreImages page.

Today was another day spent in the trailer. While it made it up to 67°F by noon with the wind and clouds sitting outside was not all that comfortable. The batteries started off at 72% this morning, and were only up to 73% by noon.

It did warm up enough that I sat outside for some of the late afternoon. The batteries were up to 80% by the end of the day.

I finished Though Not Dead by Dana Stabenow and started her #6 Kate Shugak book, Blood Will Tell.

Dinner was a turkey sandwich & chips.

Until Next Time -

2025-26 Trip to the Southwest, Day 117

Day 117, Thursday, February 12, 2026 - Sara Rodeo Grounds, Lake Havasu City, AZ, Day 4 - 0 Miles, 3,576.4 Miles for the Trip

55°F overnight, 60°F for my morning walk, 69°F by noon and the high for the day was 74°F.

Not much in the way of fireworks last night, but here are a few photos.  More at today's LakeshoreImages page.

I didn't go anywhere during the day except for my morning walk. A loop around the outside of the park is a little under a mile. Partly cloudy. The batteries started out the day at 73% and by dinner time were only up to 82%. Still plenty even though tomorrow is suppose to be cloudy. I can save some amp hours by heating my coffee water on the stove although the coffee pot only uses around 3 amp hours to make a 3 cup pot of coffee. 

A neighbor with a class C RV moved into site B22, one of the sites next to mine.

Around 3:00 I made a trip to the showers. A bit of a walk, but the building has 4 family style bathrooms, each with a shower. Plenty of room, a large tub sized shower with benches, plenty of adjustable hot water and a removable hand held shower head. Very clean. The bad - no hooks and no bench outside of the one in the shower. You need to balance your stuff on the edges of the sink or on the closed toilet lid. Overall, a C+.

Around 5:00 the Sea Scouts came by towing a boat filled with firewood & ice. We still have enough at Paula's for at least tonight.

Dinner was an Apple Chicken Brat & steamed green peas.

Until Next Time -

2025-26 Trip to the Southwest, Day 116

Day 116, Wednesday, February 11, 2026 - Sara Rodeo Grounds, Lake Havasu City, AZ, Day 3 - 0 Miles, 3,576.4 Miles for the Trip

62°F overnight, 64°F for my morning walk, 70°F by noon and the high for the day was 71°F.

Heavy clouds overnight & this morning with lots of early morning wind that died by daybreak. At 11:30 the solar panels were only producing 28 watts, not enough to keep up with the basic demand of the trailer let alone charge the batteries which are at 81%. While my weather app says partially cloudy tomorrow, let's hope for enough sun to put something back in the batteries. At least there was no need to run the furnace last night. 71°F overnight in the trailer, too warm for me since I prefer to sleep in the low 60's.

I didn't do much other than sit inside the trailer. During my morning walk I'm currently listening to The President is Missing by Bill Clinton & James Patterson, and on the Kindle reading Though Not Dead by Dana Stabenow. I do enjoy her Alaska novels featuring Kate Shugak. 

Since I don't have hookups, I fired up the gas on the water heater to do some dishes. If there is wind against that side of the trailer it dumps CO into the trailer, setting off the alarm. I have a CO detector that has a readout so I can see if it is creeping up before there is enough to alarm. Just a very light wind this afternoon so we will see how it goes. The count made it to 85. 400 is where it sounds the alarm so I guess I'll live. I do wish I could get a better seal on the water heater rim where it meets the fiberglass shell, but I've done just about everything I can think of and there is still leakage.

I went to Bashes for some baked chicken & discovered that they had 1 8 pack of the large Grape Zero Gatorade bottles. 

Tonight will be the first night of any fireworks. Just demos which are usually spaced far apart.

Dinner was chicken thighs, Bush beans & a salad.

Until Next Time -