2025- Ready or Not, here we come!

We have big plans and will be hitting the road again this year! We started by going to the big RV show in Quartzsite, Arizona. This is a huge show in a very small town, with the population growing by over 100,000 during the show. There were trailers and RVs everywhere! The show was not exactly what we expected- there was a GIANT tent with tons of vendors selling lots of stuff for RVs(solar, hitches, sewer treatment stuff, kitchen stuff, etc.), but very few trailers and RVs! We had a good time wandering through the tent and looking at the few trailers that were there, though, and we got to see the latest version of our trailer, which was disappointing, as it seems that they have cheapened the trailer. That was disappointing as we love our trailer, but I would not buy the newest version of it.

We took the opportunity to do some tourist stuff too, visiting a Quartzsite history museum, where we learned about the experiment of bringing camels to the desert- makes sense doesn’t it? We also visited a silver mine that was in southern Arizona, near the Yuma Proving Grounds. They had remnants of a mining town, which was pretty interesting- and makes you thankful that you live now! We went to Lake Havasu to see the London Bridge- that was a major letdown, as it’s just a bridge! The most interesting thing about it was that on some of the stones you could see the numbers that were put on the stones to help in the rebuilding. I took pictures of all this, but unfortunately I deleted them before they backed up- sigh!

After leaving Quartzsite we went to Needles for a few days, giving us an opportunity to visit Laughlin and Oatman. We visited a couple casinos in Laughlin, but we aren’t big gamblers, so it was more just to see what was there. The big thrill was our trip to Oatman to see the wild burros! These burros wander around the desert, and wander into the town, where they are celebrities- tourists, like us, come from all over to see the burros! Luckily, I still had the burro pictures:

They hang out near the road into town and come right up to cars, hoping to get fed. This one posed on a small rise:

We delayed our return home by 2 days because of weather- it had snowed in California, so the 2 routes home got closed for a day- and we gave it another day to let the snow and ice melt off the freeway- an adventure! Before we left we got a desert sunset picture:

Were not really desert people, but sunsets can be beautiful when they bathe the desert in a rosy glow!