How was Quartzsite?
Did you go to Quartzsite? What did you think?
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Well,
This was our 7th year, I think. And, well, Quartzsite is, Quartzsite. It's a big "Happening" as they used to say in the hippie days. Pretty much the same from last year, and the year before and, the year be.....
It's one of those things that, to me, if you've experienced it as many times as we have, it pretty much gets to be just sort of routine. Don't get me wrong, there's plenty to do and see. We've jeeped in quite a few of the surrounding areas, visited just about every vendor there, several times and, well, we've pretty much covered all there is. And, we're not into rocks so, that's out.
But, lots of folks having good times, including us, visiting with friends we've not seen since last year at this time. Will we go again, most likely. The really good part for us is, the last time we were at the Q, we had to drive from our home then, in San Diego. This time, is was a hop-skip-and-jump, from our new home in, Lake Havasu City, about 1 hour and 10 minutes.
And, while we too used to camp for "FREE" for several of the years we'd been going, there's something to be said for residing a lot closer, as in Rice Ranch. Yep, we too paid only $7.00 a night but, our toad, sat there for three days. The main reason was because we simply walked across 95 into the back side of the big tent to see if there was anything new there. Then, we strolled over into Tyson Wells to check out more Chinese screw driver bits.
Since we were camped directly behind Gamblers RV supplies, we had to go in there for the zillionth time and see what, if anything was new.
So, yep, you can camp for free but, depending on your outlook and, frequency of visits to any part of the big event, you have to deal with the drive from where ever you were parked and, the deal with traffic the closer you get to any part of it, then, you have to deal with the parking. And forget "Handicapped" parking, it's out the window at Quartzsite.
So, after we tried Rice Ranch last year, we knew we'd not go back to the free camping. It's just too darn convenient and, it's not bad at night and, the folks camped near us were all very cordial.
Then, for us, it was a hop-skip-and jump back home.
Scott
P.S. We didn't even do the Main Event because the last few years, the vendors have been slowly dying out due what we hear as, "Being taxed out and over charged for spaces etc." There are still some things to see and some vendors left on that side of I-10 but, it wasn't worth driving over to, for us.
This was our 7th year, I think. And, well, Quartzsite is, Quartzsite. It's a big "Happening" as they used to say in the hippie days. Pretty much the same from last year, and the year before and, the year be.....
It's one of those things that, to me, if you've experienced it as many times as we have, it pretty much gets to be just sort of routine. Don't get me wrong, there's plenty to do and see. We've jeeped in quite a few of the surrounding areas, visited just about every vendor there, several times and, well, we've pretty much covered all there is. And, we're not into rocks so, that's out.
But, lots of folks having good times, including us, visiting with friends we've not seen since last year at this time. Will we go again, most likely. The really good part for us is, the last time we were at the Q, we had to drive from our home then, in San Diego. This time, is was a hop-skip-and-jump, from our new home in, Lake Havasu City, about 1 hour and 10 minutes.
And, while we too used to camp for "FREE" for several of the years we'd been going, there's something to be said for residing a lot closer, as in Rice Ranch. Yep, we too paid only $7.00 a night but, our toad, sat there for three days. The main reason was because we simply walked across 95 into the back side of the big tent to see if there was anything new there. Then, we strolled over into Tyson Wells to check out more Chinese screw driver bits.
Since we were camped directly behind Gamblers RV supplies, we had to go in there for the zillionth time and see what, if anything was new.
So, yep, you can camp for free but, depending on your outlook and, frequency of visits to any part of the big event, you have to deal with the drive from where ever you were parked and, the deal with traffic the closer you get to any part of it, then, you have to deal with the parking. And forget "Handicapped" parking, it's out the window at Quartzsite.
So, after we tried Rice Ranch last year, we knew we'd not go back to the free camping. It's just too darn convenient and, it's not bad at night and, the folks camped near us were all very cordial.
Then, for us, it was a hop-skip-and jump back home.
Scott
P.S. We didn't even do the Main Event because the last few years, the vendors have been slowly dying out due what we hear as, "Being taxed out and over charged for spaces etc." There are still some things to see and some vendors left on that side of I-10 but, it wasn't worth driving over to, for us.
