We left Palm Springs on March 24 and spent two nights in Quartzsite. We stayed in a great park about 6 miles outside of Quartzsite. It was like a senior ATV/dune buggy park. Since we were surrounded by BLM land with lots of trails, everyone there had ATVs or small dune vehicles parked outside of their spots. Lots of the spaces in the park had park models in addition to RVs and they rented their spots yearly, or several months at a time. Two nights were enough for Craig and I.
It was interesting to see what was in the area of Quartzsite when nothing was going on. I can't imagine the area in January and February when they get thousands and thousands of RVs. The only attraction that we stopped to take a picture was the Hi Jolly Pioneer cemetery. Hi Jolly was a camel driver in the 1850s helping the government survey for a wagon road across Arizona. Once the government decided not to use the camels for this work, they auctioned off the camels and Hi Jolly used them to haul water.
Saw a few rigs parked out in the BLM lands, again no hookups, water, etc. Just not our type of camping. Especially since we did experience some winds and dust storms - HABOOBs.
On Wednesday we travelled into Phoenix and will be staying in Sun City for eight nights.
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