We are headed to Quartzfest in Quartzsite, AZ. Quartzfest is an Amateur Radio Operators Convention in the desert of southwestern Arizona. Almost everyone attending is an RVer We drove to the site over two days and spent Thursday night at River Run RV Park in Bakersfield , CA. It is a very nice park. The sites are large and not crowded together. However, because California has been in a drought for the last three plus years, the river was not running. We arrived after dark, so the pictures that you see were taken on Friday morning before we left on the second leg of the trip. It is a little foggy. Here are photos of our campsite and the river as viewed from the back of our site. Note that the river is supposed to be in the sandy looking beige area just before you get to the grassy bank in front of the houses.
We arrived at Road Runner BLM short term camping area after dark on Friday and found our friends Rich and Cathy, thanks to cell phones as there are no landmarks in the desert. We set up temporarily until morning when we would be able to get the lay of the land and decide where we really wanted to end up for the next week.
Saturday morning was spent repositioning and settling in. This is dry camp meaning no hook-ups for water, electric, or sewer. We needed to get to a spot where our solar panels could collect sunlight for electricity. Here is where we ended up. There are some more folks coming to join us later in the week, so we will have a small circle, but for now there are only two RVs. The chairs that appear to be in the middle of nowhere are saving space for the others who will arrive.
The first day of the RV Show that happens here in Quartzsite every January was also on Saturday. We went to the Big Tent in the afternoon. During the RV Show, the tent is filled with everything the RVer needs and “can’t live without”, everything from clothing and accessories, cooking items, food items as well as parts and pieces to repair and/or upgrade your RV, no matter what type of vehicle you have. I forgot the camera, so there are no photos of that yet. Those will come later when we return to see the rest of the displays. We did find some “treasures” that we just had to have and seem to be able to find only at Quartzsite.
As you know by now, I like sunsets and we had a very nice one on Saturday night. This is the view looking approximately west from where we are parked. We had a campfire that can be seen in the foreground and Venus is located just above and to the left of the Palo Verde (bushy) tree in the middle of the picture.
Tomorrow is the official beginning of Quartzfest. I have been very busy for the last few months and have not done any blogging. While we are here, I am hoping to get some new posts up, in addition to the ones about Quartzfest, to fill in the blanks of our summer trip to Alaska, so you may get notifications of new posts that are dated between May and August of 2014. It is not a mistake, just me trying to catch up.
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