DIY projects
Another warm and wonderful day today, and so far, the 10-day weather forecast is calling for high 60s and low 70s in the Yuma-Quartzsite area, so that doesn't sound too bad.
I've got a couple of DIY projects I need to do for the Lance. I want to insulate the two vent fans on the roof. Normally, that's very easy to do. You just put some foam into the roof vents, and since the roof vents are indented into the roof, the foam sticks up into the hole and solves the problem. But the roof vents in the Lance hang a little below the roof, so there's no hole to stuff foam into. I've tried putting Reflectix over the roof vent in the ceiling, but nothing sticks to the ceiling for long, and it just falls off.
The Lance has a long shelf that runs almost the length of the camper; see the picture below. I put drawers on the shelf to hold my clothes, which worked pretty well, except nothing was holding the drawers in place, so when I went over a particularly bad road, some of the drawers fell off the shelf and dumped my clothes on the floor. So I put a tiny bungee cord I had lying around across the front of the drawers to hold them in place. But I'm finding out that the bungee cord is not strong enough to accomplish that, and I need to rethink my plan.
So I'm waiting until I get to Quartzsite to rethink these two problems because there are few places on earth better than Quartzsite to rethink an RV problem. There are also very few RVers, because of the way and the places we live, that are better able to fix things on the fly than folks who live by their wits in the deserts and the forests.
I doubt there's anything you could think about doing to an RV that you couldn't find the bits and pieces to accomplish in Quartzsite. And you will never find a greater concentration of RV DIY knowledge than walking around on the streets and in the deserts of Quartzsite.
Theboondork
I see a lot of these small fiberglass campers; my guess is they are very popular because most folks don’t have a big enough car to tow a larger camper
This is another view of the VFW boondocking area. On the far left, you can see a car or two on Arizona Highway 95, which is the main road heading North to Quartzsite from Yuma. In the town of Quartzsite, you will hit I-10, which is one of the main east-west roads through the United States. I will probably be heading to Quartzsite tomorrow morning on 95.
Just to make things confusing, when you get to Quartzsite, they change the name of Highway 95 to Central Boulevard. This usually causes anyone my age or older to get lost and have to stop at McDonald's for lunch and information to find their way back to Yuma.
These are the drawers on a shelf that holds my clothes. That tiny string of bungee cord isn't strong enough to keep the drawers in place on rough roads, so I need to fix that when I'm in Quartzsite.