To the bridge, to the bridge, to the bridge …
I was in London yesterday, did you see me?
Ok, so this was the London Bridge in Lake Havasu Ctiy in Arizona, but several components all conspired to make it feel more like home than ever.
Now I always defend home and tell people that “Actually, it doesn’t rain all the time in England” when people tell me that it does (along with our bad teeth), but it had to easily be the soggiest day of the trip so far as I made my penultimate stop on the trip.
A res phone box, and red mail box, and lion-guards marking the entrance all help to make this a little bit of London right here in America.
This is the original bridge first built in London in 1831, but 130 years later it was replaced and the original bridge was sold and shipped brick-by-crick over the the USA and over a period of four years put in place at Lake Havasu.
We rolled up and I had difficulty in taking pictures whilst trying to hold my umbrella at the same time. We ducked into one of many ‘Brit themed’ places under the arches, and found a cafe … with a Full English? No – just the American standard fare of pancakes and waffles and coffee. Still it was hot food & drink on a wet day and we didn’t care.
We found a geocache under the arches too, with a travel bug inside and am still toying with the idea of mailing it to someone in London, and getting them to place it in a geocache close to Londons London Bridge, we’ll see.
It was time to leave – and the moment we started to drive out of town the rain obviously ceased. And then it got very dry indeed. And I mean very dry, as it was time to head into the desert …
After living in London for the first 33 years of my life and working for the 
So for ten weeks in June, July and August 2009, I drove 20,000 miles around the the lower 48 contiguous states of the USA visiting towns and places that shared the same name as places on The London
I don’t know anything about geocaching but I posted a photo on Twitter at #undusa of you at the REAL London Bridge. If I recall that was a bitter cold day (but it wasn’t raining) and we’d just done the Tower of London.
Hello from a London-based geocacher, tube challenger and erm… person!
Not sure how good caches near the real London Bridge are at accepting TBs (I’ve mostly cached in suburban London), but I’ve got one sitting around here that’s needing to be got rid of too…
http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=Edgemaster
hello Thomas, you erm … person!
i could SEND you the TB in the post, and you could go place it at London Bridge for me ??
“Original”? Peter de Colechurch is spinning in his grave. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_bridge#History
Yes, I can indeed! I’ll email an address.