Time has certainly flown by here in Quartzsite. We seem to be getting busier and busier as the winter progresses. Volunteering at the food bank, desert treks in the Jeep, the big RV show, volunteering at the POW WOW, game nights, bingo nights, flea markets, and on and on. I can't remember a busier winter since we retired. Janice has been quilting when she finds spare time. I have been working on fixit projects on the Jeep and motorhome. Both of us are finding time to read some evenings.
We wandered through the local cemetery one day where they have a monument for Hi Jolly.
This sign near the monument explains his story.
One of our next door neighbors here in the RV park buys and sells various things at rendezvous and he stopped by one evening with these two beautiful wolf pelts that he purchased from a tanner that buys them from the department of natural resources when they have to destroy animals that are attacking livestock or people. He stopped over a couple of days later with a buffalo hide.
We head out into the desert on Fridays with a group of other Jeeps on a different route each week. Here we stopped to see what they call an Indian footprint in the stone. If you use your imagination, you can make out some toe prints in the middle of the picture here. Not sure I believe that you could leave a footprint in solid rock, but it makes for an interesting story.
The footprint from a different angle.
The climb up to the footprint.
There are a lot of old mines in the area like the one by the cabin in the middle of this photo.
We follow the Bureau of Land Management trails, some are fairly smooth and some are a little harder to navigate. The scenery is always very beautiful.
Most of the treks have included stops at old cabins or mines.
Sometimes we take the drone along and have time for some shots from above. We were out with two other Jeeps this time and stopped for lunch here.
This is a site left from WWII. There was an airbase near here and this is one of the sites in the desert that was laid out with rocks to give directions to the airplanes. I believe that originally the rocks were painted white to show up better. Janice is standing in the circle.
There are some sites out in the desert like this called intaglios. These are pictures created by the native people. This one is called the Bouse Fisherman. You can see the point of his spear, fish, a bird, and the sun. Janice and another lady in the picture will give you a indication of its size. You can
click here to learn more about them.
When we arrived here in November, I took some drone pictures from our RV park showing the area around us and posted them on and earlier blog post so I thought that I would take some again to show how busy the area was in January during the big RV show.
We have made some very good friends here and already some of them have left to continue on their own adventures. We hope to cross paths with them again someday.
