What a Ride!

The Desert Bar

On Sunday we rode out to The Desert Bar with Jag and Bev. With Richard and Patsy following behind in their car. You may remember we met Jag and Bev in Alaska back in 2009 and did some sightseeing with them up there. They are a lot of fun to travel and sightsee with. The Desert Bar is about 50 miles north of Quartzsite by Parker, AZ. You get off the main highway and go about 5 miles of dusty road! Yuck! But then you come out to this bar out in the middle of an old copper mine. The bar is solar powered and the tower you see is a cooling tower. They wet the top of it and the thermal induction of the tower cools the air below. They have 2 of these towers at the bar.

More photos of the saloon and surrounding area. A view from the bridge from the parking lot to the bar looking down at some of the cooks.

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The band setting up the equipment.

The outside bar.

The inside bar with Bev by the wood fire.

Sue got a picture of the women’s bathroom with steel walls on the stalls.

Looking down from the bar.

A cactus made out of horseshoes.

A cool rock formation.

A view down the road we came up on.

This church steeple is made out of all steel.

Part of the mine?

Patsy, Jag and Bev, and Sue dancing to the music.

Sue and I in front of the church.

Jag modeling his new t-shirt.

We left the Desert Bar and headed back to Quartzsite to visit our friends over at the RV America group. While we were passing through Quartzsite I saw this couple with a dog with booties on! Go figure!

We got back to our motorhome in time to get some finger foods to bring to the RV America group. Thanks Jag and Bev for the trip to the Desert Bar!

On the way to the RV America group I wanted to show the Quartzsite sign they have erected by La Posa North BLM .

A few photos of the RV America group.

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There was a lot of good food and stories. A typical day in the life of people who stay out in Quartzsite!

The next day Sue and I went to meet some other friends at Crazy Al’s Pizza. Here Ed is toasting everyone!

Today we went back to the Big Tent and flea markets. I found this cool sculpture.

Tonight we went out to eat at The Grubstake. Here is Sue, Roger, Donna, Patsy and Richard. Notice the walls of the restaurant – grey tarp!

The food was good, but the service was horrible and slowwwww….

We will be out here a few more days before heading to Yuma.

Until next time!

The Big Tent Opens

Well today the big tent opened in Quartzsite and is now the official start of the “Quartzsite RV Show”. Roger, Richard and I went over and waited in line to get in when it opened at 9:00AM. The big tent is next to these water tanks in Quartzsite. I really like what they did to the tanks!

I picked up all the filters I needed for my motorhome and generator at the show. They have good “show” prices so I tried to get them here every year. I also picked up a reconditioned Olympian Wave heater to replace ours that is leaking propane. I also bought a few other items that I thought I needed.

The weather was overcast for most of the morning and the wind picked up with winds 20 to 25 knots with gusts to 35. I thought I was back in Abilene!

This evening was our pot luck with our TRVN rally friends and then we had a raffle. Richard won a cute purse!

I still need to get a few more items at the show tomorrow, but I am not going to be there when the gates opened like this morning. The crowds were pretty good today, so it looks like it did about 4 years ago. Very busy!

Until next time!