We left Lost Dutchman State Park and headed to our Shabbat destination, Bullhead City, Arizona, a four-hour and 19-minute drive that took us over eight hours.  Snow was the reason; as we kept driving higher in higher in altitude, the snow kept falling in the mountains of northern Arizona. 

Driving through Kingman, Arizona we were right in the middle of it, with a good deal of snow on the ground.  Several highways were closed in different areas and we were down to a standstill three separate times.  It seems there are truckers who do not know how to drive in snow and jackknifed (three of them were FedEx).  This stopped traffic (again and again) until the transportation department could clear the road.  However: we had coffee, food, and a bathroom in the RV and were not in a hurry to get to our destination.  And the snow-covered mountains were beautiful.

Bullhead City Municipal Campground is a comfortable place on the Colorado River just down from the Davis Dam, and across the river from the Nevada state line.  We could see in the distance a whole row of casinos, but they held little interest for us.  Having the beauty of the river behind us did.  Shabbat was comfortable and quiet.

Sunday morning, we hit the road for the final leg of our trip – to North Las Vegas.  We made a short stop to photograph some petroglyphs on Inspiration Rock that we discovered while taking a Shabbat walk.

February 24 – 25, 2019

It was only a two-hour drive to NIRVC in North Las Vegas where we will be storing the RV for the immediate future.  It is part of the same organization that owns the storage facility we were using in Atlanta, and since our future trips will be in the western part of the United States, it will save us some cross-country driving time.

We took Monday to get our van ready for storage, and then started on our journey home.