The First Few Days of Quartzsite (01-21-14)

Quartzsite Arizona is a unique place to visit.  It’s a small desert town in Arizona, known for its quartz deposits.  In the RVing world, its known for something else though.  Its a gathering place for RVers from all over the country.  We come here in January by the hundreds of thousands.  Why? Well, pretty much to just hang out with friends, and if we’re lucky,  meet some new ones!

A lot of times when I explain Quartzsite to non-Rvers, I get a skeptical look.

That’s because when we come to the desert, we have no hook ups- that means no electricity, other than what we make when we run our generators, and no sewer- just our water tank and holding tanks.  Paul and I are on a mission to see how long we can last.  We’ve never tested it before. About a half mile away is a place we can refresh our tanks, so its not a big deal.

 

 

Its easy to do this in Quartzsite in January because it’s a balmy 70-75 degrees during the day, and cools off into the 40s at night.  No need for air conditioning. I wouldn’t want to be here in April though!


So, here are the kinds of things we’ve been doing while hanging out with our friends:


We build pathways.
I don’t claim credit for building this but because there are about 15 rigs or so in our group, someone connected the two sections with a lighted pathway.  There’s a reason that it isn’t straight, but lets just say it makes it easy to find our way back to our rig in the dark, late at night, after being at the campfire.

Speaking of campfires, we have a communal campfire available for whenever anyone feels social.  We also respect each other’s occasional desire for “down time” at our own rig.

Paul and I are sort of known for our Margaritas, so we hosted a Margarita and Quesadilla night.








 

We had a lot of help, with some people providing ingredients and other people helping to build the quesadillas.  A fun time was had by all.

Entertainment is cheap in the desert, and most evenings we are lucky enough to have a beautiful sunset to watch.

The other night was “bring your hotdog to the fire” night.  Many of us brought hotdogs to cook over the open fire. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Of course, there are always projects to work on, as well.  Unfortunately, the day we arrived, we found that something had put a hole in our roof.  Luckily we had friends who had the patch kit we needed, and Paul was able to fix it right away.  We have absolutely no idea how it happened though.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We also knew that the guest bed was getting pretty uncomfortable to sleep on, so we picked up the materials to add some support  under the mattress.  Hopefully this helps, since the next people to sleep on that bed will be us!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And now I need to get ready for the party we are having today, so I’ll post more another day.