How Did You Start Going to the Water?

[niceguyeddie]

My grandparents bought a place at the river a few years before I was born. They had been going for years before that and would camp on the Indian Beaches. So I started going as a baby. I remember back when we would launch the boats and skis off the beach. I think people that did that and still do are crazy! lol

When I turned old enough to drive they would start letting me use the house with friends. I few of us had stand ups so we'd just hang on a beach all day and I always day dreamed about owning a boat. I bought my 1st boat when I was 19 and kinda carried on the tradition. I wish my cousins/ siblings would have also carried out the river tradition, but I was the only one of all the "kids" to have an interest. I knew since I was a kid that I wanted my own hot rod jet boat.

[ChumpChange]

We need to start a thread tell us your "CRAZIEST" Crazy Horse story. This thread would be epic!!! LOL Alcohol, Jail, oh nevermind.

Mine would involve all of those. Burned security guards golf cart, porta potties in bonfire....EPIC!!!!!

[Stainless]

Remember these?



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[ChumpChange]

Remember these?

Should this go to the Cooler thread?

[Stainless]

Oh hell no!!! Last time we tent camped was at Buckskin and we left in the middle of the night and never did it again.

Lmfao, I'm with you, I would stay home bf I suffered that ever again.


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[HB Vic]

Remember these?



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We started going back when these were the hot ticket

[ChumpChange]

Oh hell no!!! Last time we tent camped was at Buckskin and we left in the middle of the night and never did it again.

Tent camping was perfect for a buch of drunk college students. If we had a hotel, it would've been too easy to just sleep the entire day away from the previous night's hangover. Nobody wants to sleep in a 100 degree tent in the morning. It forced us to start the party bright and early every morning!!!!!

[78Southwind]

2nd Generation for me.
Then we would go without the parents to Crazy horse and that's where the WMC and Wendi show started....

So what year are you talking here? I was at Crazy Horse pretty much every spring break and big weekend from 85 thru 87 (I graduated HS in 87). My buddy had a Lifted Grey Toyota truck on 40's with a couple thousand watt stereo system in it. We would go to North Beach (I think that's what they called it) before it was developed and start the party. It was absolutely insane (girls dancing & flashing in truck beds, Palm trees set on fire, hand guns firing in the air and just about everyone was under age). I have so many stories I could tell. It got so bad that Crazy Horse started charging to just to come into the campground and party. The local Havasu girls would come down to party and they wouldn't bring anything to drink...just cups. When we weren't staying at Crazy Horse another friend of mine had a place at the Isle condos so we would just sneak in from there. I am sure our paths crossed back then.

[Stainless]

Should this go to the Cooler thread?

Hey, those were the cool cooler then, you just had to buy ice twice a day.


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[78Southwind]

Third Generation here…my Grandmother owned a boat and kept it in a slip in Long Beach. However, my parents were really the one’s that got me going to the river since they had the lake/river boats. My parents started going to Parking in their late teens and they started moving up river to BHC/Laughlin (to get away from the craziness at Parker) when they started their family.

I am sure I was on the water at an earlier age but the first memory that I have of the river is when I was four years old at Riverside Casino in Laughlin. A friend of my fathers had won some money on the TV game show Match Game. My father had his pilot license back then so this friend offered to pay for all of the plane fuel and the hotel room if my Dad flies him to Laughlin to gamble away his winnings.

My Dad and I had a great time just hanging out and fishing. However, I remember the horrible gnats. I think that’s the day they came up with the saying Visit Laughlin and Bullhead City - 10 Billion Gnats Can't Be Wrong.

My parents bought a motor home shortly after this trip and pretty much took me everywhere with them (Powell, Mead, Mohave, Laughlin, Havasu, Shasta, Tahoe, ectra…and when I was in sixth grade they bought a mobile home in Bullhead City AZ. I have a lot of good river memories and continue to create them with Lisa (MMA).