Q Mountain on Valentine's Day

On Valentine's Day, two other couples hiked with us up to the top of Q mountain. It's not far from where we are parked. What a great day! All these pictures were taken from the top. Q mountain is not very high, but gives a nice view of the area.

Looking down towards the center of the big metropolis of Quartzsite.

RV's scattered in the desert.

Doug & Terry, Dayle & Tom, and the two of us.

Looking down toward our three rigs.

Zoomed in a bit, can you see us know?

Home Sweet Home

Beauty in the Desert

Life in the desert is good. Every day brings new surprises.

The full moon rising.

The sunset across the sky from the full moon.

This female hummingbird is one of our frequent visitors.

One of the rare rainy days here produced this amazing double rainbow.

The other half of the rainbow

The sunset later on the same day.

Car Show at the Big Tent

When we first arrived here in Quartzsite, the big RV show was going on. Since that has ended, they had a craft and car show this last weekend.

The Big Tent

Desert Patrol Vehicle

Just to remind us that we are in the desert, there is an occasional saguaro cactus growing in the flea market area.

Visit to a Gold Claim

Jamie and George invited the SKP Boomers to visit their gold claim. It was an interesting day. Very informative with perfect weather.

Rain in the desert

Our first week in Quartzsite was interesting. We had a rainy day with a tremendous amount of rain and wind in the afternoon. All 8 of us were safe inside Doug and Terry's large RV, while we rode out the storm. We found out later there were tornado watches for the area and a report of one not too far from us. It looked like a hurricane, with the sheets of rain blowing over our little house. The smell of the desert after rain is something worth experiencing.

A male Anna's hummingbird.

This Verdin is not a hummingbird, but visits our feeder for a sweet treat.

The view out our door after the rain stopped.

Beautiful sunset the next day, over Tom and Dayle's rig.

Hondo to Quartzsite

After two and a half weeks in Hondo, taking care of plants and chores, we headed west to Quartzsite. It had been a few years since we had been in Q during all the winter activities, when most of the people are here, which means many of our RVing friends are in one area for us to visit with.


A new view of our lot in Hondo. We took out the two large agave plants and trimmed the remaining plants. While here, we had some very cold weather, three nights well below freezing 24 deg, 22 deg and 16 deg. As you can see from this photo, our palm doesn't like the cold any more than we do, the leaves are all brown.

The continental divide looks a little different here in New Mexico than up in the Rockies. It's flat desert for miles around.

We saw many acres of pecan groves along our route.

Colorful containers on a train make for an interesting contrast to the mountains behind.

Picacho Peak, Arizona.

Here we are at Quartzsite at the LTVA (long term visitor area) known as La Posa West, with some of our RVing friends we worked with at Amazon. A survivors reunion.

Our house plugged into the sky, collecting all that free energy. Life is good here in the desert.