Kino Bay to Quartzsite

Kino Bay to Quartzsite, AZ
We left Kino B ay in the morning and made our way back to Tucson, AZ to the Diamond Casino for the night. They had a seafood buffet there in the evening so to help them out we went to the buffet to help pay back for some of the free camping we did in their parking lot. The buffet was really great with king crab legs, shrimp and top sirloin with pie and ice cream for dessert it made for really full tummies for the night. The only downside was that I did not have a wifi signal in the RV and at that point was too lazy to go outside near the casino to get hooked up. So ya all will just have to wait till we get home to Redlands before I can post the last of the blogs.
We arrived in Quartzsite about 1:00 pm and did some browsing and shopping for nothing much of anything. I bought a new water hose for the RV and some misc odd tools for Kino Bay but there really was not much that we needed. The vendors have not really arrived for the winter season either, so there were just a few of the mostly permanent shops that were open. Still Bev managed to find a basket for me to cart down to Kino Bay next time.
After doing that it was about 3:00 pm and I did not relish the idea of driving the 4-5 hours needed to get home so we will spend the night here in the desert. The really cool thing about this area is that you can just camp out on the BLM land anywhere in the desert. There are large expanses of open area available and at this time of year almost no one is around. Not so in just two more months when the desert will fill up with over 250,000 RV’s from the snowbirds flocking here after Christmas with the family in the northwest and northeast. Then it becomes a virtual RV party out here with different groups camped out in wagon wheel style in the open desert.
We will return here also for about a week in January to be with the Southwest Trek Fun Club which meets here every year. About 80 or so RV’s all of which are the same make and manufacturer. It is a pleasant time to meet with those you have not seen in a year and have a really fun time acquainting yourself with others you have never met. People from all over the US and Canada seem to come here.
Well it must be time to close this blog and get some dinner for the evening and then the desert does tend to get cold in the nighttime this time of year so it will be bundle up time.
Tomorrow night we will be safely tucked into our beds once more in Redlands which will be the climax ending to this trip. It was a great time and a wonderful adventure.