Quartzsite weather

Location, Quartzsite, AZ


I should not have talked about how little rain we had in my last blog. It rained all night Wednesday and all day Thursday. About 4:45 PM Thursday a windstorm with gusts to 79 MPH roared through the area causing hurricane type driving rain and pushing RV’s around. It was quit a ride for a half hour. We had several leaks but none major. I just need to reseal a few vents and sky-lights on a warm day.

The big tent in Quartzsite survived intact as did most vendor tents. There was water everywhere but it soon subsided. By Friday morning it was business as usual.

We moved north of town to our usual Plamosa Road site on Saturday where we set up next to our friend Dick who had been there for two weeks. He left this morning.

We visited a lot of our old Desert Gold RV Park friends at John and Connie’s this morning. Connie made her World Famous cinnamon rolls. Just the mere mention of those rolls brings people from near and far. Thanks Connie, we enjoyed everyone we ate and the conversation also.

When we arrived back at the RV, our friend George had moved his RV over by us from his two weeks of camping with the Wandering Individual Network group. This is a large organized group of Individuals (this year they were 150 rigs) which travel the US. They are on their Western US swing which brings them to Quartzsite each year for the big show. They have been camped about a mile up the road from us.

There are also several other large groups here. One group is all large bus type motor homes and there must be about 150 of those all in one area. It is quit impressive to see. Behind them is the Montana Owners Club (MOC) which has maybe 50 to 75 5th wheel trailers in a circle. I also saw a sign for the Escapees Boondockers group which is what’s called a Birds of a Feather group. All are like minded people who like to camp “off the grid” or “boondock” as we say. All in all, it is a very impressive display of RV’s.

This large group of people also causes some problems as you can imagine. Yesterday when we tried to go back to town around noon, the traffic headed into Quartzsite on AZ 95 was backed up for 5 miles. We decided to turn around and go back to the RV. I can’t imagine where all those people were going to park as parking is limited close to most shopping areas. I’ll bet it was a zoo.