Our site at Desert View RV Resort

Desert View RV Resort  5300 Route 66 Needles, CA 92363 760-326-4000 www.desertviewrv.com Site 16 - $35 including GS discount - one night (March 6, 2017)

Time to leave Lake Havasu and the rapidly emptying park. I woke up this morning with a spasm in my left neck muscle. Very painful to turn my head left. Treating with Tylenol. Hope it will be better tomorrow! Otherwise, still pretty tired and achy from the bluegrass festival. Not good to sit out in that cold wind most of the day yesterday! We had decided to make a stop at a private campground on the way back home from Havasu so that we could dump our tanks and give the black tank a good flush. Bob picked out this CG and it turns out to be quite nice. Much farther off the interstate than it looks on the map, and is very quiet and not very big. About 40 sites, a couple being park models and probably half being snowbirds. Has a fairly decent sized heated outdoor pool with a couple of unisex bathroom/shower rooms, a couple of exercise machines, a clubhouse with kitchen, pool table, poker table, games, and large library. There were sign-up sheets for their scheduled activities. The pull-thru sites were average size - about 20x45 but had a wall of bushes and trees between each which gave them a sense of privacy. Each had a concrete patio pad, 20/30/50 amp power, water, & sewer. From our camper we had a very nice view across the valley and interstate. You could see the town of Needles and a range of mountains off in the distance. Here's a pic of it from where I'm sitting in the dinette.  

View From Our Site

Tried filling the fresh water tank while the camper is level, and guess what - it did fill it all the way. Yay! We tried out our new Valterra black tank flusher, too. It has the usual bayoneted connectors and was easy to hook up.  The pipeline to our black tank goes straight back as the instructions recommended, but it didn't give instructions on exactly how to flush. I assumed that turning on the water as strong as possible would work best, and it didn't cause any problems. What happens is that water shoots in a jet straight into your black tank. When you see the jet through the see-through fitting, you think it's not going to do much. But after the water runs for a while, the fitting, and presumably the black tank, fill completely with water and then you can see a churning-type action in the water. You'll see the water turn brown and unpleasant-looking stuff will be spinning around in the water. I let it churn for a while and then turned of the hose valve. Eventually all the water drained out the sewer hose, but it did take some messing with the hose to make sure it all ran downhill without forming traps. We flushed three times, but even the last time the water didn't come out completely clear, but it surely had to be way better in there than it was to begin with!! We could have flushed it a few more times if we'd had the time. It takes maybe 5 - 10 minutes to flush and drain. Joy of joys, the black tank gauge in the camper read "empty" when I checked it! Hopefully, now the gauge will give accurate readings!  

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