As we left Havasu, we flew over a place called Havasu Heights. It is out in the County, so people have fewer building restrictions. For a while there, builders were putting in tons of underground homes. I think it's AWESOME. I visited one of the underground homes and because of the construction into the ground there was no need for an air conditioner. REALLY! The house was cooled by a series of pipes that went down under the house into the ground. That's substantial when you think about the 120 degree average we have in the summer. Cooling a home around here is usually $400 a month. And to solar-power a house would be about $100 grand. Yikes.
Here's a photo of an underground house. Lucky ducks.
I'm jealous. I want my own undergroud lair. It would be my fortress of solitude.
We continued on to Kingman, passing over what used to be the Ford Proving Grounds. Ford recently sold it to Chrysler, but I think Harley Davidson is using a portion of the Grounds for their desert testing of vehicles, also. We got in to see the Proving Grounds once, when Ford decided to have a 50th anniversary party. They'd been testing Fords there for 50 years. Top secret!!!
The most interesting thing about the Kingman Airport is the really expensive bone yard. Many retired commercial airliners are stored there, all lined up:
There were a bunch of TWA and Pan Am ones on the other side of the airport.
But not nearly as interesting as that is the bone yard that is just outside the Kingman Airport.
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On the flight home we took a detour and flew over my mom's place. It's 20 minutes from nowhere in the mountains.
Here's the house:
