Day 4: Into Arizona

Posted by: Arin

Day 4 was our laziest day so far. We started off by eating the remainder of our food, then headed down the 17 miles to Needles. Right off the 40 was a KOA campground, so we decided to go in and steal some showers (and wash our clothes while we were at it). Brad went first, and finished with no issues. I got in next and while I was washing my clothes Brad comes in and tells me "some lady says we have to move along." I didn't take it too seriously, so I told him to tell her 5 minutes. About a minute later, a lady comes into the bathroom and says "you need to get out right now! I'm calling the police and you're trespassing." Once again, I'm gathering all my stuff in a hurry and run outside to where Brad is waiting. We strapped all of our wet clothes to our bikes and took off into Needles.

In town, we decided to splurge and got a huge veggie pizza, which we devoured. We chilled at the pizza place (River City Pizza Co) for a while while out clothes dried a little more and our phones charged.

After some time we headed to a park that some train workers at the pizza place told us about to digest and finish drying our clothes. Sitting and looking at the Colorado River was really nice (especially with a full stomach). 

Once we were ready we headed 20-something more miles to Bullhead City. It was getting later into the day so we were on constant lookout for a place to sleep. The majority of the highway was not what we wanted, with an almost nonexistent shoulder and stores and houses lining the sides. After a few miles into the city, we found our spot; a big sandy area with lots of trees, used mostly for off road recreation but with plenty of unused space. We set up camp there for the night and cooked up some beans that made delicious burritos (along with some pepper jack cheese, avocado, and tapatio that we picked up at Safeway earlier in the day).