January 21-22, 2018 - Quartzsite, Arizona

Remember yesterday? We did the same stuff today! It was windier, so we wore our heavier coats and gloves when we went into town to look at more market stuff. We walked around and saw more treasures we could live without!

Back at the RV we listened to the end of the Jaguars/Patriots game and were disappointed with the outcome. We hope the Eagles are able to triumph in the Super Bowl!

Monday morning.

We are getting things packed up and ready to head back to Scottsdale. Tobey will hang out there and I will be going back to Colorado on Wednesday for a week. Nothing else to report, so until later!

January 20, 2018 - Quartzsite, Arizona

We had a quiet evening last night watching a movie, The Perfect Game, before turning in. It was a fun movie based on a true story of the first Little League team in Monterey, Mexico. If you haven’t seen it, I recommend you do!

It was fairly warm overnight – our furnace never came on – Yeah!!! It did get windy and shook our little house, but not too bad.

Today we woke to blue skies and headed into town to go to the RV show and expo. We spent several hours going through the big tent looking at all vendors selling everything you could possibly need (or not) for your RV or home! We did come away with a mini vacuum for the RV in hopes of getting rid of the big one we have. We hope we can fit our new Inflatable kayak into that closet instead!

For lunch we split a pulled pork sandwich and curly fries. I didn’t think to take the picture until we had eaten about one quarter of the fries!!! It was $6.00 for the plate and we watched as they made them – 3 potatoes – peeled and cut using a drill driven peeler!As you can see, it was a popular place!After our lunch, we finished up the inside booths and decided we better head back to the RV since the rain clouds were moving in. We got a little wet on our way back and the wind was brisk, so it was good to get back.

Tobey got into practice for Mexico and took a siesta while I did some hand sewing. The sky had cleared, but because it was still quite windy, I cooked dinner inside rather than grilling this evening. The forecast for tomorrow is sunny, so we will head back to the RV show and look through several of the outside vendors and see what other goodies we can’t live without!

January 19, 2018 - Quartzsite, Arizona

It has been three years since Tobey and I have been to Quartzsite, so we decided to take off from Scottsdale and come over for the weekend. We left around noon and had an uneventful drive over – that is a good thing!

We headed north out of town on Highway 95 and are camping on BLM land at the Hi Jolly camping area. After leveling the RV, we took our motorcycle off the rack to go into town and had our first mishap! SOMEHOW, it got away from us on the ramp and crashed over, with Tobey under it. Fortunately, he only got a small scrap on his leg and the motorcycle only got a broken turn signal lamp. Our neighbor came over very quickly and helped pull the motorcycle off Tobey and get it righted. It reminded me of the first time we loaded our old scooter into a trailer to pull it before we got the rack on the RV. It was a fiasco and the scooter had its first crash! We will get used to this loading/unloading process again.

We headed back into to town and got a new lightbulb and Tobey was able to repair the cycle  for 95 cents. Not bad!

From the auto parts store we headed west on Main Street to see the Hi Jolly Tomb Memorial. Back in 1856, Jefferson Davis was the War Secretary and had the idea to use camels to transport freight and goods in the southwest. He imported 70 camels and a Syrian caretaker, Hadji Ali, to carryout  the program. His American masters called him Hi Jolly. The Civil War began and Jefferson Davis went on to become the President of the Confederacy and abandoned the project. The 70 camels were set free to fend for themselves near Quartzsite. Hi Jolly remained and lived to be in his 70s. He was well-liked by the locals and they built the memorial of petrified wood and quartz in his honor.

Later, the Arizona Highway Department added a bronze plaque to the site. It is located in the Quartzsite cemetery.

We stopped at one of the flea markets and walked around for a little while. Because it  was after 4 pm, many of the vendors were closing up so we headed back to the RV.

We enjoyed some sparkling wine that our friend, Susan, gave us before Tobey started the grill for dinner. We had a beautiful sunset while we ate dinner and we are settling in for the night. No internet out here, so we will post when we can! Enjoy your evening!