2013-01 A short trip to Quartzsite AZ

We had intended to go through Quartzsite on the way into Palm Springs area, but they were having a hard freeze - 22 degree weather! So, with our heater still on the fritz, we delayed our visit with friends at Snowbird Mecca. After a couple weeks in Palm Springs area and the weather slightly warmer, we headed to Quartzsite for a few days boondocking and shopping in the endless flea markets. This is also a great place to pick up solar panels and any RV gadget imaginable, but we'll table that for another year.

Really enjoyed our evenings around the campfire with Miles and Adina, friends we met while camphosting in Colorado this past summer. I am sure our paths will cross again!

pics around Quartzsite

Wanderers and Vagabonds...

The RV started as a temporary solution to afford living in Newport Beach when Mary's company relocated to Irvine, CA. We loved it so much, we decided to make a go of full-time RVing. In July 2008 we hit the road, and have been roaming ever since. We do seasonal work camping and really enjoy it. We also use camp club memberships such as Thousand Trails and Coast to Coast to save on "rent". We have found beauty everywhere we go and hope to continue exploring and enjoying this beautiful country. Here's a great quote which sums up our hope for ourselves and for anyone seeking similar adventures:

“...May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets towers into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal and mysterious swamps and down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs, where deer walk across the white sand beaches, where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high crags, where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you -- beyond that next turning of the canyon walls.” - Edward Abbey

the.arys - gary and mary

2013-01 A short trip to Quartzsite AZ

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