The Big Q

With lots of time at our hands we sure didn't hurry this morning. Did our usual Dixie walk, checked the news (mostly terrible stuff). Then picked up the last items around the rig. Had to say Good Bye to friends, once and then again and again to other friends. (wow - so many friends)

And finally we rolled out of camp around 10:30am. For those who already had said Good Bye the day earlier I blew the airhorn when going by their site. So much fun, and always gets a lot of attention! LOL.

I-8 was very busy with cars, but not many trucks. Interestingly, the Border Patrol Check Point between Yuma and El Centro was closed today. Free run for the immigrants! Guess the officers want to be with their families too. The Checkpoint on Hwy 95 to Quartzsite though, was open, but only one officer at the booth. Well, there wasn't much traffic on this road, and when I stopped looking out the side window his attention was already towards our van, which Bea was driving behind the motorhome. I just heard "keep on moving". I asked Bea what conversation she had with the guy. "ISLAND TOURS? Where is THAT?"

We've been asked that very same question many times.

"I'm following THAT guy" Bea answered before he ordered her to move on as well.

While we normally would have had the van on top of the trailer, we didn't bother for the shorter distance to Quartzsite today. We will need the van to go into town while we are here.

Arriving at La Posa South LTVA we pulled right up the camp road and found a suitable spot for ourselves. 

We were surprised to see that there are still a lot of campers here. Last year, we were here at the same time in march, and much fewer rigs were around.

We also notice the lack of desert flowers along the road. This years winter drought has led to a rather bleak looking desert vegetation.

If our fuel card arrives on Tuesday morning we'll get out of here right away.

Below video was made after our morning walk