Thursday, February 22: Another windy and cool day today. Actually put on jeans and tennis shoes for walk around the park. It is like a sea of RVs. Not sure what the attraction is to come here and spend 6 months of the year but obviously others find something to come here for year after year.

Garry went off in Stubby to shop the various RV places. Marilee did several loads of laundry. I pulled out the sewing machine and completed the bag I started in Yuma.

After all that, Marilee took me for a tour of Quartzsite. From one end of ‘town’ to the other only takes a few minutes. But we stopped at a little grocery store where I picked up milk and she got Half and Half for our coffee. I had found a quilt store on Google maps so we went to find it. There are several areas that are basically tents where people sell all kinds of things, and the map took us to one, but we couldn’t find a quilt store.

After the big tour was over, I came back and looked online for a different bag pattern to make but was having internet issues so just decided to make a second one of the same pattern. Having made one already this one went much more quickly and I was done in a couple hours.

By then it was happy hour so I headed over to Mar and Gar’s. Garry was sitting in his little car trailer out of the wind so I joined him on their new rocking chair. Mar came out with some cheese and crackers and we talked and listened to music. Was getting fairly cold so we moved into the RV.

They wanted to go to the Quartzsite Yacht Club for dinner. Kind of funny there being a yacht club in the middle of the desert. I guess a man, Al Madden, with an investment company in California spent a lot of time here and saw a bar for sale so bought it. Being a man of “humor, wit and an active imagination,” he thought it would be fun to change the name to The Yacht Club with the motto, “Welcome aboard – Long time no sea!”

Garry had to take Marilee over first and then come back for me since Stubby only holds two people. Marilee had gotten us a table in the back corner but we soon changed to seats at the bar. The bartender (and one of the owners) was friendly and quick. We ordered dinner( fish and chips for me, burger for Mar, and smoked BBQ ribs for Gar) and it came pretty quickly too. Everything was pretty good except Gar said some of the ribs were too dry.

There were a lot of burgees but not one from the Des Moines Yacht Club!

It was karaoke night and there were some pretty good singers but there were some pretty bad ones too. We didn’t stay too long after eating and went back to their RV for Olympics and champagne. I went back to my camper around 9:00 and was still having issues with the internet so couldn’t watch the final round of the women’s skating. Mar sent me a couple of texts with updates but I was asleep before the last one.