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We've been here at Q since last Tues evening - mostly looking at/buying rocks except for part of one day in the Big Tent.
The RV show seemed to have a large variety of interesting RV-related products in addition to the usual fluff stuff. I did buy a fluff item and I hope I didn't get took: A 10,000 mAH Li "Portable Power Bank" solar rechargeable gizmo I bought that you carry in your pocket to provide 4-5 top ups of iPads, iPhones, and Garmin navigators when not around wall sockets! I'm always wanting to plan trips sitting somewhere with the Garmin and then suddenly having it's battery needing a charge in order to continue.
Interesting: A Dairy Queen that was open, but out of ice cream ... and a fast food place (the only thing open at night) that was a short-on-help disaster. The fast food place experience was the only time in my life that I've experienced way-overly-done nearly black onion rings!
The weather here has been superior! After five days of drycamping (Pow Wow parking lot - not boondocking) and having to top up the batteries occasionally with all three - idling V10, running the Onan built-in, and running the Honda portable - some solar on the roof would have been helpful! BTW, our idling engine's alternator output has momentarily spiked to 80 amps during coach battery recharging. That was a pleasant surprize.
We've come three times to Q in a row now, and plan to continue. Of course we usually combine the Q trip with other side trips in AZ. This time we're visiting Tombstone, and taking a desert road along the Colorado river looking for petrified wood.
The RV show seemed to have a large variety of interesting RV-related products in addition to the usual fluff stuff. I did buy a fluff item and I hope I didn't get took: A 10,000 mAH Li "Portable Power Bank" solar rechargeable gizmo I bought that you carry in your pocket to provide 4-5 top ups of iPads, iPhones, and Garmin navigators when not around wall sockets! I'm always wanting to plan trips sitting somewhere with the Garmin and then suddenly having it's battery needing a charge in order to continue.
Interesting: A Dairy Queen that was open, but out of ice cream ... and a fast food place (the only thing open at night) that was a short-on-help disaster. The fast food place experience was the only time in my life that I've experienced way-overly-done nearly black onion rings!
The weather here has been superior! After five days of drycamping (Pow Wow parking lot - not boondocking) and having to top up the batteries occasionally with all three - idling V10, running the Onan built-in, and running the Honda portable - some solar on the roof would have been helpful! BTW, our idling engine's alternator output has momentarily spiked to 80 amps during coach battery recharging. That was a pleasant surprize.
We've come three times to Q in a row now, and plan to continue. Of course we usually combine the Q trip with other side trips in AZ. This time we're visiting Tombstone, and taking a desert road along the Colorado river looking for petrified wood.
