Our first LTVA

LTVA stands for Long Term Visitor Area (I think… sounds good enough). These are areas within BLM lands in which someone can pay a one time fee to be able to stay for an entire season, as opposed to having to move every two weeks. As you can imagine, they can be quite popular among the snowbirds that come to Arizona to ride out the cold temperatures from up north. Imperial Dam, not far out of Yuma, Arizona, is one of these places and the location for a small get together of a few long lost nomadic friends, us included.

Honestly, for us it was just good to get some serious miles away from Las Vegas without another breakdown. And I’m happy to report that we did; successfully driving into and past Kingman, Lake Havasu, and down to Imperial Dam just across the California border. We were the first to arrive in the LTVA area so we spent that extra time scouting out an area large enough to accommodate our group, and far enough away from the bulk of the crowd in the LTVA. By the end of that day we had ourselves a proper get-together going on, with five other couples pulling in, all of which we know but haven’t seen in a while. All were coming from a much larger gathering (of 400+ RVs) so the tone of this one was all about coming down off all the excitement of the earlier. Daytime work and evening happy hours around a fake campfire is all that really happened each day – just nice and relaxing for all.

Kerri even started an social-media-diet (my phrase, not hers) in which she has seriously limited the amount of time she spends zombily (not really a word) staring into her phone. After just a single week she found that she spent 22 hours less on her phone (yes, there is an app to track that). 22 hours!!! That is gaining a full day of productivity in a single week. So much time that she got to pursue other hobbies.