River Run!

You have to be crazy, or really like to ride motorcycles, if you leave on a two day ride to Lake Havasu City with the weather forcast calling for a 70% chance of rain. Not crazy at all as both my riding partner, Doug Ploeser, and I have the kind of riding gear that make us look like a mounted SWAT Team. We had just enough rain to keep us cool, but not interfere with the beautiful ride from Prescott to the Colorado River via Historic Route 66.

We arrived in Lake Havasu on Monday, March 27 and stayed overnight with Wendell Brezina. What a fantastic host. That evening we had dinner at Casa Serrano with my niece Kate Strom and her finace, Aaron Barr. Kate is very happy and we like Aaron very much.

All we need to do now is introduce Aaron to our family "Garage Tacos" ways!

After dinner Brez chauffeured us to Laughlin to see A Really Big Shew" at the Flamingo. We really enjoyed the show as Brez knew the producer and we received "special handling".

We all got back to LHC about 12:45 a.m. and bunked out as we needed to get on our way the next day to visit the Japanese Internment Camps in Pouston, AZ.

We were up early on March 28 to the sound of rain on Brez's carport. Sign's that we might have a wet ride from the river. Brez offered to drive us to the Pour House, so we would not have to put on the SWAT uniforms. Since we got an early start we called Aaron's cell phone in the event Kate might be joining us for breakfast.

After breakfast we made our way to Parker to meet up with Mr. Ron Charles, the Tourism Director, for the Colorado River Indian Tribes. Mr. Charles loaded us up in his car and took us for a grand tour the the CRIT Reservation. Not only were we able to see the Japanese Internment Camps, but he took us to all the key sites on the reservation.

No, he did not take us to the fry bread factory, but that must be TOP SECRET! We were very suprised to learn they have a great hotel and casino, the Blue Water, on their reservation in Parker.

Doug and I had a great trip and thank everyone for making our trip so pleasant.