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Quartzsite Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Quartzsite, United States
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RV City
What a dessert city. Thousands of motorhomes camping in the desert. Very busy. We woosed out and stayed at an RV park so we could recharge our batteries (and have internet) after dry camping for the festival. It's a very unique place. A great place to ...
speaking of trailers...
Quartzsite is near the border of California and Arizona and according to my limited research no residential houses exist there. Instead there is mile after mile of RV lots. Some kinda fancy, most rustic, and some, well, just dirt. We chose a ...
Winter City in the Desert
After leaving Southern California we spent three days in beautiful (??) Quartzsite, Arizona for a weekend rest. We don't like to drive more than 250 miles on any given day, so this seemed a good place to land. We had heard that Quartzsite was ...
Windy City
The winds have died down today, to about 11 mph. Just enough to keep the air cool, but the sun was out full force and a few feathery clouds floated through the blue sky. Today was breakfast by our hosts. They fixed us an omelet in a bag with ...
Busy Day For Us All
Today started early for us because of signing up for a "Ring Toss" competition. Although, I did sleep until 7:15 am. That is a first for this whole vacation! The RV was pretty warm this morning and I thought we had had a warm night. NOT! We both forgot ...
Now Sitting in Quartzsite in the Desert
This morning we picked up stake and the wheels were rolling - toward Quartzsite and our Escapee Chapter Rally. More on that tomorrow as I have too many things to tell you about the last few days or maybe just yesterday!!! First, here is a photo of the ...
Looking Ahead - Tentative Itinerary, Now into '07
... Stampede! July 12-July ? Probably up into Edmonton, Alberta area to visit friends & family Later in July Back into the States, heading towards Colorado August Denver area with Jess, Tom, Zach and Trey We'll probably take Zach and Trey on a road ...
We've Moved
We have been so busy doing, seeing, talking and going that I haven't been on the Internet for a couple of ...
Dale Shops - I Veg
Boondocking takes practice and gaining lots of tips on how to preserve water, volts and not filling up the holding tanks. Boondocking is when you take your RV out and park it withouth hooking up to electricity, water or sewer. One does this to help the ...
BBB Aftermath
... rock and gem show but has somehow got out of hand. We get under way after packing, saying goodbys, showers, and getting provisions. Quartzsite is about two hours south. Free dry camping on BLM land is availble so wwe all plan on meeting up and getting ...
Tents, Tents and More Tents
... but many, many RV parks and RV services. It seems this place fills up with RV's during the months of October through January. Quartzsite has different shows for the tent area. Right now it is the Rock and Gem show. Lots of pretty rocks, bling - blings ...
An annual party in the desert
... coaches which has grown from a group of about 20 to the over 90 anticipated this year. The second reason is that it's Quartzsite in the winter. This is RV Mecca. Free, or close to it, dry camping, usually beautiful weather and almost ...
If it's mid-January it must be time for a party!
Let me start with a little information for those of you who are new to our story. We took delivery of our current coach in early January of 2007 in Bend, Oregon. We made a very quick drive south to attend our first BAC ( Beaver Ambassador ...
2009. It's a wrap.
... -MD-PA-DE-NJ-NY-PA-OH-IN-IL-IA-MN-ND-SD-WY-CO-TX-NM-AZ and back into CA. If you've been counting, that's 30 states. Didn't seem like that many at the time. We put 13,630 miles on the coach. We used 1,808.64 gallons of Diesel. For the year our ...
Quartzsite and CA
... and they are going to meet someone they better known exactly where they will be camped. There are even videos showing what the Quartzsite is like and where to go during the winter months. I was amazed how many campers were in the town as we ...
DECEMBER SUN BATHING
... just huge slugs of desert with nothing but bush, cacti and stones but the one we chose was only a couple of miles from Quartzsite Town and close to Interstate 10 so we even had telephone signals etc. Decided that in the 80 degree plus heat and ...
Quartzsite
We finally made it to Quartzsite, we have been talking about it since before we left Michigan. It is beautiful, it is boondocking without services. Campers are usually 1,000 feet away from each other, there is lots of room for everyone. You can camp by ...
And Then It Rained!
... not sure how much rain fell but I have heard five inches and I have heard eight inches! More rain than Quartzsite has received cumulatively over the last ten years I am told! Another person said he had never experienced anything like it ...
Congress to Quartzsite & the New Christy Minstrels
When I got behind the wheel to do our 'brake check' I decided to not relinquish the driver's seat today. I really hope to get my confidence back this winter. It's been a while since I've handled the rig! We've settled into a BLM area with a ...
what a drive
started out around 8am and drove over 400 miles today. we are in az and will be staying at some rv resort down the road. we plan on staying there 5 days, just made resorvations. Mary wanted a pool so she will have a pool. will send the address ...
On the Road Again
We had great visit with our family. Left Montclair California with sad goodbys. Headed to Quartzsite, Arizona. We got to see a variety of cactus along the way. Tomorrow we head for Tuscon. ...
Day 45
... after that. Way too many lights in that campground. Well we left Oceanside about 9:00 am and drove to Quartzsite, Arizona. Traveled about 245 miles today in nasty high winds. One area had warnings for winds gusting greater then 50 ...
We are here...
We left Buckskin Mountain SP in the morning and headed south to Q. It's a town with only about 3500 permanent residence, The population swells to over a hundred thousand in winter, especially during the annual RV show. Over a million folks ...
Can you say saguaro?
It's a pretty wild place, RV's of all kinds parked willy nilly in the desert. We drove in late at night and tried to find our way through the cacti to park. Finally we figured out that you just park wherever the hell you feel like it. We woke up the next ...
RV show
Ce matin , direction magasinage même s'il pleut...le tout est principalement dans une gigantesque tente bien que des kiosques de toutes sortes y soient.....De tout pour tous...mais plusieurs kiosques intéressants pour les VR...donc , on a fait des ...
Boondocking at Quartzsite
... weather experience at the FMCA Regional Rally was an adventure. This year's gathering of Escapee friends - Each Quartzsite experience revealed another aspect of this 2-3 month city, 12 month desert town. Our first visit was in ...
Jewelry Making at Almont in Quartzsite
This afternoon we took a jewelry soldering course at Almont in Quartzsite. I think Don, who has done machinery/plumbing soldering, was amazed at how difficult it was! We checked out a couple of other places that we had missed on our ...
One more day of Travel
... So after we finished there we jumped back into the camper and headed west once again, and decided to stop at a place called Quartzsite AZ. This place is pretty cool because you can dry camp just about anywhere in the desert.....they also have one of the ...
Back in the desert again !
We spent our first night at the Rose RV park in Quartzsite Arizona. Had a leisurely day. Naps of course! Had a beautiful Quartzsite sunset as usual. On to Benson Arizona on Friday at 9:45 ...
And We're Off
... stress trying to make sure we have everything taken care of. As we were leaving we got a low tire alert so had to stop and check all the tires and fill with air. We made it to Quartzsite with no problems. Just relaxed after a long day. ...
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