CA ---> AZ

CC626 · Post by **CC626** » Wed Apr 08, 2020 8:00 pm

I hope someone out there has been able to fish. I want to make a trip from San Diego to Lake Havasu for a few days with the boat on a solo trip. Has anyone been across the state line recently? I have a buddy who lives in Havasu and he said all the ramps are still open. Im just concerned about towing a boat 4 and 1/2 hour drive to be turned around. Any information would help.

Thanks,
CLC

toddmc · Post by **toddmc** » Thu Apr 09, 2020 10:21 am

I'm in the same situation. I may go on Monday. If you get pulled over, have a story about how you are storing your boat somewhere in Havasu.

I worry more about coming back in this crappy state of ours. I have to go through the checkpoint on Rice Road. I have come across some real overzealous boat inspectors there. I have my livewells open, my anchor clean and dry, and my plug out before I get there, or else they attack my boat and start tearing through compartments like I am an illegal drug mule.

toddmc · Post by **toddmc** » Sun Apr 19, 2020 3:03 pm

I didn't know if my trip to Havasu from SoCal was going to be a covert CIA operation gone wrong, or more of a successful Smokey and the Bandit episode. I headed east out of the Coachella Valley at 2:30 am on the I-10 towing 70 mph because of the nearly empty roads. I was picking off a few semi trucks going up the grade with an unrecognizable car many car lengths behind me, and very slowly gaining. It wasn't until several miles before I recognized the CHP Dodge Charger headlights. Buford T. Justice never even bothered with me, and went past me at about 1 mph faster on cruise control. Havasu is almost at full party mode with not a facemask in sight. It was busy. The roads in AZ were freshly paved and gas was $1.85 a gallon. I even got smiled at and offered a beer on the lake. This hasn't happened in CA in decades!

The campground at Cattail Cove was full of legal and well-behaved people. What a refreshing experience. It was almost like another planet.

CyclistG · Post by **CyclistG** » Sun Apr 19, 2020 6:55 pm

toddmc wrote:I didn't know if my trip to Havasu from SoCal was going to be a covert CIA operation gone wrong, or more of a successful Smokey and the Bandit episode. I headed east out of the Coachella Valley at 2:30 am on the I-10 towing 70 mph because of the nearly empty roads. I was picking off a few semi trucks going up the grade with an unrecognizable car many car lengths behind me, and very slowly gaining. It wasn't until several miles before I recognized the CHP Dodge Charger headlights. Buford T. Justice never even bothered with me, and went past me at about 1 mph faster on cruise control. Havasu is almost at full party mode with not a facemask in sight. It was busy. The roads in AZ were freshly paved and gas was $1.85 a gallon. I even got smiled at and offered a beer on the lake. This hasn't happened in CA in decades! The campground at Cattail Cove was full of legal and well-behaved people. What a refreshing experience. It was almost like another planet.

“The campground at Cattail Cove was full of legal and well-behaved people”????