January 23 & 24--Still in Quartzsite

Quartzsite has many interesting booths and tents to explore. It is hard to believe that later in the year this place will be empty.

Wednesday we went to Bad Boys Cafe at Rice Ranch in Quartzsite to meet fellow users of Military Campground website. The cafe is outdoors, but it has several tents in case of inclement weather. It is located in the section named Rice Ranch.

Each person orders breakfast, finds a table and breakfast is delivered to your table. The coffee is $.25 a cup with unlimited refills. The waiter finally let us grab a coffee pot and refill our own as we needed! It was a very congenial place. We sat in one of the tents hoping to keep the wind at bay.

Most people arrived between 8:30 and 9:00 with a few stragglers at 9:30 (they missed the group pictures). Larry, who created and runs the website is first on the right in this picture.

Everyone enjoyed meeting after chatting and posting on the site. Some of us stayed until noon talking and sharing campground experiences. About half of those who attended are full-timers.

Bob and I walked through the areas of Quartzsite that we missed on Tuesday. We purchased a few items and then returned in time for happy hour with the boomers. It is a great group that has 2 official mantras:

There are no rules in Boomerville.

Every hour is happy hour.

This is a view of Boomerville from the top of the road leading into the area. As you can see, everyone just parks where there is level ground. It can be very dusty!

When we awoke Thursday morning, there a very light pitter-patter on the roof of our vehicle. As we slowly raised the blinds, we realized it was raining--we hadn't seen or heard rain since El Paso when a few drops fell on Bobby's house. It looked like it was passing quickly so we decided to geocache and visit California! Bob chose 4 caches close to I-10 on the way to Blythe, California.

We found all four with no trouble. We dropped off a travel bug and a geo-coin and retrieved another travel bug. We are quickly approaching 200 finds. We have some in every state we've visited except Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. Maybe we will find some in those states on our return trip.

We saw several interesting sights in Blythe, California. At the first sign, Bob and I gathered our books of stamps and were ready to trade them, but it was not a redemption center.

Not far down the road we saw Blythe Airport. This building is one of the few buildings at the airport and it is still in use. The building is from WWII.On our return to Arizona we were glad that we didn't need gas. There was a line of vehicles backed up for 3/4 of a mile waiting to get gas at the Arizona line. Gas at the border in Arizona is $2.85 and just across the state line in California it is $3.38. Diesel in California is only one or two cents above regular unleaded.