Were at Q!

Quartzsite, AZ

We have finally arrived at Quartzsite, AZ to do some serious boon docking .. as those who know me .. know that I love free!  We are camping for free on BLM Land.

Isn’t the blue sky just breath taking.  We slept in this morning as we are exhausted from traveling.  My MS has kicked in and reminded me that I must rest!  So today was a relaxing day.  We sat outside and enjoyed the sunshine. 

as you can see we do not have any close neighbors .. not yet anyways

later in the afternoon we decided to take the dogs on a walk, they were full of energy and excited to see and sniff new places.

need some sage?  I picked a leaf off and yep it smells just like sage

lots of wide open land here for anyone to come and park on for free

I love the catcus .. they each have their own unique look

this is a big tree here in the desert .. back home we call them a bush

we walked the dogs far enough to wear them out .. here is our home waiting for us to return .. it was a beautiful day with lots of sunshine and the temps are just right with a light long sleeve shirt. 

We fired up the bbq grill and sliced some potatoes and put on some pork steak and a can of corn and dinner was served.  It was delicious and the iron grill I bought in La worked great to grill with.  After dinner we drove back to where the RTR group is parked (we decided to stay where we are just off the road) and we enjoyed a fire and visiting before coming home and firing up the generator and taking the chill off.  Then it was lights out as I was exhausted.

Welcome to AZ

We were up early and back on the road before 7 AM.   Here is the rest area we stayed in .. beautiful huh?

Since it was dark last night and I couldn’t get the welcome to AZ sign, I got this one instead

the desert has a beauty of it’s own

going under the road to drive .. ekkkk

don’t you just love the art work here?

WE stopped at Casa Grande and stocked up on groceries before arriving at Quartzsite .. ouch that was expensive although we haven’t bought them in several weeks.

We found our exit .. Yeppie were almost there

Around 2.30 PM we arrived at our destination although we couldn’t find the RTR GTG so we decided to just park, setup and find them later.  Here is where we are parked, if in the area stop and see us

We found the RTR group, we didn’t go down the road far enough but we decided to just stay where we are for now and we plan to meet them at 10 am . 

Here is how close our neighbors are .. nice huh?

here is where home is parked for a bit

our electric out here on the BLM land is our generator

behind us there is no one .. Yet

our back yard

this is the view out our front door .. nice huh .. see the mountains in the distance

see our home with a nice camp fire to enjoy

hubby built a nice fire and one it got down to coals we dug out the stick and roasted polish sausage and marshmallows for dinner ..mmm it was good

we watched the sun go down and enjoyed a beautiful sunset while basking in the warmth of a nice fire on a nice warm winter nights.  After enjoying our fire we decided to kick on the generator for a bit and then we called it a night

we traveled 393 miles today and our total was 1590 miles and we spent $716 dollars in fuel and an additive for the truck. 

On the road again

we were up and on the road around 8.30 AM

We are getting into the mountains of Texas .. were going up and up

were getting closer and watching the weather on the internet as we do

Oh no!!  Is that what I think we are seeing?  

Yep it’s snow left over from the winter storm they had last week.  Ekkkk

we made it into New Mexico!

it’s beautiful

I just love New Mexico and it’s own unique beauty

I love how they decorate the over pass

see the pretty sunset

we crossed the AZ border and made it through the inspection point.  We stopped at a rest area just across the border.  We traveled 635 miles.  One more day of traveling before we reach our destination of Quartzsite, AZ