Quartzsite, Arizona

What is it about Quartzsite that attracts so many winter campers? (Weather, Cheap Camping, the Shows, ATV riding, etc. etc. etc.) Right now there are over 2,000 vendors here all trying to sell stuff to the RVers out in the desert. The BIG TENT is up and the "shows" start this weekend. Every day new rigs arrive by the thousands. Some areas in the desert are quite crowded as friends and owners of particular brands try to group together.
Monday, Marvin, Annie, Mary and I took a hike up into the hills behind us. By the time we were finished those hills felt like mountains.

Annie stayed at the bottom to look after Tobey and Niki while we climbed to explore an abandoned mine.

 I believe this was the crusher for all the rock dug out of the mine. We didn't find any gold lying around.

 Looking across the valley, our trailer is out there somewhere......

 Mary suggested we climb the next hill which was even higher.  This is starting to feel like a mountain now....

 If you click on this picture to enlarge it you will see thousands of white dots.......... those are campers.....

 The BIG TENT, has just been erected and the shows start Friday.

 Can you believe all the campers? Every state even Alaska is here; lots of Canadians too ............

 OK, time to get off this mountain, see you later ............................

No post tomorrow as we will be flying back to Toronto. I'll post again on Saturday. (P.S. Please excuse the "blue tinge" I didn't reset my camera and I didn't realize my mistake until I was back down, and I wasn't about to climb back up to redo the pictures.)