Quartzsite in the rearview mirror
This morning, I went to Parker, Arizona, got my oil changed for $125 (it’s a diesel, so it carries twice as much oil), and dropped by Walmart to restock my ever-dwindling supplies. Then I moseyed over to the Bluewater casino and found out they stopped charging people $15 to boondock in the parking lot, and it’s back to being free again….. Muchas gracias Bluewater Casino!
Tomorrow morning, I'll saddle up and drive the 40-something miles to Lake Havasu, where I will have to put up with days of correcting my dictation software as it writes... Lake have a Sue, Lake have Havasu, Lake have a slew, Lake have assumed, and any other way you could possibly mess up Lake Havasu.
My time in Quartzsite is over, and it's on to new views and great places. I enjoyed being at Quartzsite, which surprised me since I disliked going because of the "Big Show" crowds. But since I had a mission to get pictures of boondockers, I enjoyed myself, and the time flew by.
I hung around Quartzsite as long as I wanted to and took plenty of pictures of boondockers and how they live. I had never done that before with pictures of Quartzsite; normally, I would show myself boondocked out in the sticks and how few people there were around me. But this time, I went to where the action was and tried to give everyone a sense of how many boondockers were actually running around and how they lived.
I didn't take any pictures of regular RV parks, several of which are in Quartzsite, so every RV you saw in my photographs was boondockers. Since I wanted to show boondockers, I frequently stayed where the boondockers normally go, so I got a chance to talk to more people because I was living amongst them. And everyone I spoke to was just like me, folks who enjoyed the freedom of boondocking and the camaraderie of others like themselves.
So, I will stand by what I've always said about going to Quartzsite. If you're a newbie who wants to learn about how to boondock comfortably, go to Quartzsite, camp in any of the BLM boondocking areas, and walk around the area every day. You will run into people there who will be happy to invite you to sit around their campfire and share all their boondocking knowledge with you.
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Dome Rock sunset.
Dome Rock boondocking.
Hi Jolly sunset.
Boondocking sunset.
Plumosa Road sunrise.