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The Montana Owners group had an impressive big circle of 5th wheels! ‘theme camps’) and individuals on their own. It wasn’t too much unlike arriving to Burning Man on an early entry pass – as the gates open, the city fills in around you and the cacophony of generators fill the day & night with noise.Īfter visiting many of the other boondocking spots outside of Quartzsite, that’s almost exactly what it’s like – a collection of groups camping together (ie. Or you can just go with the flow and embrace it as part of the experience. You can be sulky and complain all the time. You can pout, pick up all your toys and find another space. I want to find out where the purple alien group was. Signs to various encampments in the desert. Then their buddies started to join them, and before we knew it we were surrounded by an informal gathering. With big wide open spaces all around us, it felt at first a bit intrusive.

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We could watch their TV at night through open windows from our coach, which meant they could probably see our naked dancing too. Then, the chaos encroached. It started with one RV who decided to set up camp not more than a few hundred yards away from us. We could leave the windows open and dance around naked inside (ya know, in case we wanted to.)Īnd perfect 4G signals on Verizon and AT&T… infact, it seems both networks upgraded their towers (Verizon to XLTE and AT&T to LTE) while we were there.

For a couple nights, we had lots of space around us – no RVs in near site. Almost as much as I love moving a week or so later to discover new surroundings. I just love the process of settling in for a stay of a week or more. We nested a bit by decorating our spot, putting out our lawn chairs, setting up the ground deployable solar panels and I even built a little rock border around our landscaping.Īhh… home. She’s always excited when we land at a new spot. Our nice ‘remote’ area all to ourselves… for a couple nights anyway. We picked a spot about a 1/4 mile from the DOVEs encampment so we’d have some space to ourselves but yet still be within stumbling distance. We’ve been kinda hopscotching each other now for a year since we spent last winter together in Cedar Key, Florida.

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We pulled off Highway 95 onto Plomosa Rd, checked in at the host trailer to get our 14-day free permit and then Forrest & Mary met us out at the BLM Road 811 intersection to help guide us in. We did a quick overnight stay at one of the short term visitation areas with a designated camping area inside the Imperial Sand Dunes recreation area (it’s confusing as to whether or not this area requires a permit or not for an overnight, but we opted to chance it anyway and interpret ‘short term visitation’ ourselves).Īnd then it was the final miles into Quartzsite. So we threw caution into the wind and headed east to Quartzsite – deciding we’d arrive there unannounced for a couple days, and hopefully get a little low-social time before braving the chaos that we knew the experience could be. We joined last year, but haven’t had a chance to get through our training yet.įorrest reported that the area was wide open with good cellular signal. They were joining up with the DOVEs group, which is a chapter of the Escapees RV Club that works with the American Red Cross to deploy volunteers in their RVs to disaster relief areas. One such invitation came from our dear friends Forrest & Mary who had just arrived to the Plomosa Road area a few miles north of town, one of the free 14-day boondocking areas. We also were starting to get more and more invitations for happy hours and meetups in Quartzsite leading up into the Big Tent opening the following weekend. We had no firm plans other than checking out the big show at Quartzsite – eventually. Or maybe up to Lake Havasu City for the hot air balloon festival about to start?.The Kofa Wildlife Preserve south of Quartzsite.Over to the wildlife preserve at Mittry Lake north of Yuma.Head down to the Hot Springs LTVA (the BLM’s acronym for a network of ‘ Long Term Visitor Areas‘ which require a 2-week or 7-month permit to utilize).We had several boondocking contenders on our list: We just love waking up in the morning not knowing where we’ll sleep that night. We literally pulled out of our spot that morning with no plans for where we’d head next. The world was ours to discover, on our own schedule – we could go anywhere we wanted to. We were sitting at the corner of the Borrego Salton Sea Way and Highway 86 after dumping our tanks at the Arco station there (free!), completing our awesome and overly-social Anza Borrego boondocking experience.

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