Today was our last full day at Quartzsite.
Yesterday we went and filled up with water. Given the 15% we had left, it looks like our tank will last us just over two weeks.
When we went to get water, we forgot to grab our outside thermometer and we lost it somewhere in route. Laura started to walk our route and met a lady named Sue walking her dog. Soon after they parted, Sue showed up in an all terrain vehicle (ATV) and offered to drive Laura looking for our thermometer. As it turned out DR found the thermometer near camp, but Laura got to cruise around for a while in an ATV with Sue. We did a final trash run today and offered Sue’s camp our leftover firewood (you’re not supposed to transport firewood because it might harbor pests). They didn’t need the wood so we stacked it next to the communal dumpsters. We checked as we returned from town and someone had taken it. One of the most important rewards of our many travels is renewed faith in how nice people on this planet far outweigh the number of jerks. It really restores our faith in humanity.
Tomorrow David and Linda are leaving early to go home to Colorado. We will be heading South, at a more reasonable hour, to Yuma then East just North of the Mexican border through all kinds of little towns that read like one of my favorite Marty Robins albums “Laredo”, “El Paso”, “Tombstone”, …
Oh, the photo above is of Vango, a sunset, the Moon and Venus. You can’t see them, but Mars, Neptune and Uranus are also in the frame.
Adios amigos,
DR & Laura
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And off you go in your VanGo (great name for your home away from home). As you head south & east, you might consider visiting the Yuma 1870s Territorial Prison, Hwy 85 down to Organ Pipe NP, a drive across the Papago Indian Reservation, a visit to Kitt’s Peak Observatory, Saguaro NP outside of Tucson, & a really neat old mission a short distance south of Tucson (Mission San Xavier del Bac). Incidentally, none of these is mandatory . . . you are not being graded! Have a wonderful journey no matter where you go & what you do.
Dave
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Thanks, Dave, for sharing your extensive experience in this area. You’ve never lead us astray in our extensive and wonderful past travels with you (well there was the “Berlin Death March”). We will add at least some of these highlights to our itinerary.
I guess your going to earn your share of the Wood Ranch gift card I’m pitching in to the pot for our next libation.
DR
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