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DAS26miles wrote:
Home now. The DW doesn't want to go back unless we go with a group. Will start working on that in 6 months.
Dave,
I've been going down to Quartzsite solo now for 3 years. Come camp up at Plomosa. Give your neighbors a little distance, but don't hesitate to come up to a campfire in the early evening with some beer, or some wine, and introduce yourself to your host. I can almost guarantee they will welcome you with a handshake and open arms to have a small discussion. Don't be surprised if they ask you to go back get your campfire chairs and bring them around the fire.
It's been this way three years in a row for me. Happy Campers are gregarious campers. Gregarious campers are the best. Leave religion, politics and sex back home in the SFV, and you'll get along just fine. So far, I've always had a great trip, and come home with some good stories and some potential new friends, it never fails.
You are what you make of it. Be positive and outgoing, they'll reciprocate. Be a negative Nelly, or a Debbie Downer and who wants to be around that?
To me, Quartzsite is something special. It has a mystique to it that attracts traders and campers of all kinds, from the seedy fringe elements with dreadlocks to folks that have or still own their own businesses and are putt putting around in perhaps a Prevost. The whole gamut congregate there.
The Pow Wow mineral show is a big draw in town. It usually starts on a Wednesday and finishes up on Sunday. Next year, be down at Quartzsite and set up on Tuesday, the day before the PowWow. Watch football game or two over at Silly Al's, have a pizza and a pitcher of beer and get a little rowdy rooting for your favorite team. Get there early. Wanna take the wife dancing? Head on over to The Yacht Club one Saturday night. Want a good internet connection? Buy some coffee in the morning at the local McDonalds and get some free wifi to catch up. There is always something to do from sunrise to sunset. Every one of these places, if you make a little effort and strike up a conversation, you'll meet interesting people from all walks of life.
