We've been camping in an old gravel quarry in Lake Havasu City for the past few days. No hookups and internet connection only through our cell phone...very slow. Can't upload pictures until we have a stronger connection. Oh well.

Lake Havasu has exploded in the last few years. What started as a place to test outboard engines made by Robert P. McCulloch is now a booming metropolis, well sort of.

McCulloch also manufactured chain saws in Los Angeles next to what was to become LAX. He decided to move his plant and build a city for his employees. He wanted 13000 acres some of which he would have to acquire from the federal government, some from the state. Eventually, he got what he needed for $73 an acre.

Lake Havasu is now the site of the London Bridge. McCulloch bought it for $2.4 million in 1968. The bridge was dismantled with each piece being numbered and reconstructed in Lake Havasu. It has become Arizona's second-biggest tourist attraction, after the Grand Canyon.