88 Shades RV Park & Day's In Quartzsite

1/11/10

We have been at 88 Shades RV park for about a week and a half.

Our Nest's new yard at Lot D-7. The streets are lined with palms. We have not counted how many palms, but we are wondering if there are 88 of them. I guess we should ask at the office. Mallery seems to like it here better than Casa Grande. Not sure why except we were in the pet section, and I am thinking there were too many dog smells everywhere we walked. During a walk in our park we saw this custom built motorcycle.


1/12/10


We walked up to the Main Event flea markets which are about 4 blocks from our park, and spent the afternoon mingling throughout the vendors. We were told this morning it will take at least 2 weeks to see all the vendors in town. Another interesting car owned by a semi permanent park resident. A picture of Main Street. 88 Shades is down the street 4 blocks on the right. We were told Grubsteak was a good place to eat. A little dive but good food. We ordered the beer battered fish fry which is hugh and we shared one order. Neither one of us could have eaten it all. It was really good and I am sure fattening. The place was so full, we had to sit at the bar to eat. Joe is eyeing all the money on the ceiling. You know Joe and money. I got to keep an eye on him, so that he doesn't climb on his seat and grab a few to pay for the meal. (I hope you know I am kidding).

11/14 -16/10


Another area of flea markets on the other side of I-10 Miles and miles of vendors. Everything from tools, rocks, jewelry to kitchen supplies.

1/18/10

Quartzsite has several small grocery stores in town, but the prices are almost doubled normal prices. With over 100,000.00 of RVers coming into Quartzsite for the winter, this dead little town otherwise probably has no industry, so they jack up the prices. Today we are taking a day trip on 95 north to the town of Parker to go grocery shopping at a new Wal-Mart there. The first week here has been beautiful in low 70's and sunny, but the weather is going to change for about a week to rain and cooler. As we drove north toward Parker, the on coming traffic was heavy with RVers, heading toward Quartzsite. This week Quartzsite is having an RV Show. The drive is about 40 minutes to Parker. The grasses or weeds in the desert have dried and turned yellow. More RV'sRain is in the forecast. After lunch at Micky D's and shopping at Wal-Mart in Parker, we head back to Quartzsite. Pretty clouds and skylines. and many boon dockers (camping out in the desert with no hook ups) as we get close to Quartzsite.