Wednesday, February 21: It was time to say goodbye to Yuma and my friends there. Bill and Carl left a little after 8:00 to go on the side-by-side out in the desert with Frank and maybe a couple others. Then I said goodbye and thanks to Tom and Marianne. Judy came and helped me as I was getting ready to leave and I loaded Misty up in the truck and we took off.

First stop was for diesel at Fry’s. It is like our Fred Meyer and is owned by Kroger so I got $.30 off and only paid $2.33! After paying as high as $3.75 it was amazing to fill the tank for around $73.00!

I then stopped at Joann Fabric, which was right on the way out of town, to pick up a few things for more sewing. It was one of the least crowded Joanns I had ever been in! Except when I got to the checkout, then there was suddenly 4 people in line. Never fails, right?

Misty was not a happy little traveler to be back on the road. She had really enjoyed her time in Yuma on the leash. She meowed a lot and loudly for the first 30 minutes or so but then settled down for the rest of the way.

Quartzsite is only about 90 miles from Yuma so it was a long drive. However, it was a two lane road with a lot of motor homes and very few passing lanes. I was still going along at almost the speed limit until we got behind one motor home that would vary its speed from 45 – 65 but mostly on the lower end. I even saw a semi pass it at one point. But there was another motor home pulling a vehicle behind the slow one so I didn’t want to take a chance to pass. They are so wide it was hard to even get a look around it to see if there were cars coming. So it ended up taking me much longer than I thought to get here.

When I pulled into the RV park, the office was closed for lunch until 1:15. I had looked at the clock in the truck and thought I had an hour to wait then realized when I got on my phone that the truck was still on PST so it was only about a 15 minute wait. But by the time she opened up, there were 4 people ahead of me again!

Quartzsite is an interesting place. It is pretty much just a big RV parking lot for miles. Some are dry camping and others are in parks like this one. People come here and stay for the season and others just pass through. Interstate 10 runs right through the middle going East and West, then Highway 95 bisects it the other way.

I got a spot right at the front of the park and sat outside with Misty for a while but it was fairly windy and got cool pretty quickly so we came inside to wait for Mar and Gar. They showed up a little after 4:00 and got a spot not too far from me. I had said I would cook dinner, Instant Pot Coq au Vin, so I started preparing that while they got settle into there spot.

I took the Instant Pot and noodles to their place so they wouldn’t have to sit at my table with the litter box under it, lol. Their new RV is very nice and Gar has made a lot of improvements. Especially with lighting. I need to look into doing some in a few cupboards, especially in the bed area.

Dinner turned out good and then we watched the Olympics for a while until I decided to head home. I couldn’t get my stupid TV to work again so ended up just going to bed.

The Holiday Palms RV park officeMar and Gar’s RV with, Stubby, their Smart car

My humble abode. You can see that the RVs are all very close to one another.

And just a little note about Courtney’s girlfriend, Stephanie Coffey. She graduated from flight attendant school for Alaska Airlines. Six weeks of book learning and hands on flight experience. Very proud of her.