Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Having Fun in Quartzsite, Arizona

We got to Quartzsite, AZ on Saturday about 5pm. We got a late start on Saturday morning, so it was a long day. Before we left, Dave had almost forgotten that we were taking our tow bar, that broke, to the dealership in Sun Valley who had installed it. The tow bar was at Kim's so we decided to drive over there and hook up the car, with the new tow bar, plus, it was a good excuse to let Danny drive the RV. I called ahead and asked Danny it he wanted to drive it and of course he jumped on the opportunity. I drove ahead and picked him up and took him to the parking lot where Dave would be. I just dropped him off and went back to the house with Kim and Miss Madison and waited for them to show up. When they finally made it back to the house, Kim and I noticed there was a limb of a tree lodged into our slide awning, and I started pointing at it. When Danny parked and they were getting out we asked Danny about the tree he hit, and he started laughing, I'm glad he thought it was funny, just kidding. :) He said to Dave, remember when I heard that loud noise and I asked what it was, well I guess we know what it was now. Danny said as he was driving that these people on motorcycles were pointing like I was so now he knows why. He did good though, he only hit a tree and a curb, as least he wasn't like Dave the 1st time and take out the neighbor's mailbox and dent the RV.
Anyway, this RV show is great, everything you can't possibly live without. The small group we are with are a lot of fun. Walking around looking at all the booths, we have picked up so many free night stays at RV Park's all around the U.S. We even found jobs, at some of these parks, where we stay for free and work for them and get paychecks. One place is really promising, we only have to stay and work for 1 month and we will earn $4000.00. The only do this between September 25th thru mid-October, of course we have to either be in North Dakota or western Minnesota, and they are 12 hour shifts and it operates 24/7. We would be doing Sugarbeet Harvesting, no experience necessary, right now they just need sample takers and guiding trucks, and if you work Saturday it's time and 1/2 and Sunday is double time, something to think about, the way this market is we could always use the money. The other one we looked at is in Des Moines, Iowa. Here you work in an amusement park, called Adventureland, and can stay in the RV Park from April till the end of September for only $200.00. You get paid $7.00 an hour and don't work over an 8 hour day, and they want 30 hours a week from you, not too shabby, but what the hell else is there in Iowa??? Sorry but actually you could stay RV'ing full time and earn money and park for almost free, I kind of like the idea. Look, when we go to settle down in a house again, we have to buy all new furniture, appliances ect. it's going to cost a fortune, something I'm not look forward too.
Back to Quartzsite, there are motor homes, 5th wheels, trailers, tents, teardrops, A frames, vans what ever you want to live in or travel in it is here. You can tell the ones that live here, dry camping, almost all year round, there is nothing out here how do they do it? About a mile away from us, back in the desert more, there is a nudist camping group. We didn't see it, but Monaco Mama, who we met in Oregon, and her husband were driving around and accidentally came upon it, and they weren't hiding.
We head back to Bakersfield tomorrow morning, bowling tomorrow night, plus, Thursday and Friday Dave and I have to work.
Bakersfield RV Resort, where we stay, is even here advertising their RV Park, they said they had a lot of people interested, will see.
That's it for now.
Love to all

1 comment:

marisa said...

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