How Did You Start Going to the Water?

[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).

[Sharp shooter]

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

I still use this one and it works waay better than any of the newer coolers I have.

[SBS933]

I still use this one and it works waay better than any of the newer coolers I have.

Ha, Shooter that Yamaha cracked me up my sons no. was 933, hence the shortened Slow Boats Suck 933