London Bridge

On our way home to Flagstaff, we stopped to see the London Bridge. Now, we did not magically transport ourselves to London, nor make a large detour, but rather stopped in to see the London Bridge located in Arizona. Lake Havasu City is maybe best known for this landmark. 

From the Lake Havasu City website:
After it was dismantled, each of its 10,276 exterior granite blocks from the original bridge was shipped to Lake Havasu City. Each block was numbered before the bridge was disassembled. The blocks were shipped overseas through the Panama Canal to California and trucked from Long Beach to Arizona. The shipping and assembly of the bridge, and dredging of a man-made channel underneath, cost $7 million.

Since nobody was waiting for us at home, we made the minor detour from the highway to see this site and check it off our bucket list.  Although a major attraction, it was relatively sparsely attended, maybe it was the fact that the thermometer read 105 in the shade, or maybe it was Covid. We appreciated the no crowd and the quick photo stop.