Lake Havasu State Park

It's a great drive fom Bakersfield to Lake Havasu. First you leave the Flats of the Central value and drive into the live oak filled foothills and up over Tehachapi Pass past the family ranch of labour hero Cesar Chavez (declared a national monument by Obama), then you pass a forest of windmills and descend into the Mojave desert, past the Joshua trees.  Then it's a few hundred miles of flat empty desert until you cross the Colorado River and suddenly you are in retiree paradise on blue Lake Havasu lined with palm trees and trailer parks and rv parks.

Suddenly it was shorts weather, 80F.  We could only get 1 night's reservation so we are on the road again tomorrow.

Lake Havasu State Park is a very well maintained campground; our site was immaculately raked and, at last, decently maintained bathrooms.  It's very much a retired crowd staying here.