Hey friends, welcome back to Grand Adventure! I'm your host Marc Guido,
and this week we are spending time down in Quartzsite, Arizona
sitting around the campfire with you, our Grand Adventurers. So stay tuned!
Let's be blunt: no one goes to Quartzsite for scenic beauty or a charming town.
Instead, RVers by the tens of thousands gather in Quartzsite in winter for cheap RV living and
getting together with friends both old and new. When planning for the Q22 Rally in Quartzsite
fizzled, we made a last-minute decision to hold a Grand Adventure Rally of our own
at the La Posa South Long Term Visitor Area in the southwestern Arizona desert, an 11-hour drive from
our winter RV home in Salt Lake City, and timed to coincide with the Big Tent RV Show in Quartzsite.
For something so loosely planned at the last moment, we were thrilled with the rally's success.
Attendees gathered around the campfire each night to share stories and tall tales.
In addition to lots of Grand Adventurers, other YouTube channels in attendance included
Camper Size Living, Worth Every Mile, Rambling Voyage, Roaming With Rosie, The Lost RV'ers,
Living Our Journey, The Wandering Shores, Cowboy Biker Adventures and many more.
Apologies in advance for any channels we've overlooked.
Greg and Penny Cameron of Rambling Voyage
put together a delicious Dutch oven cooking demonstration one evening.
Of course, some evenings we'd get together for a tasty pot luck dinner, too.
On Thursday night, we teamed up with Camper Size Living
to throw a karaoke campfire blowout at our rally location, with an estimated 75 to 100 attendees
gathered around five campfires for great conversations and great times.
Papa Drew's RV brought his brand new blue CanAm side-by-side out to the desert,
and we couldn't pass up an opportunity to cruise around the desert surrounding Quartzsite.
There's a surprising amount to see in the Sonoran Desert landscape surrounding Quartzsite.
These mine ruins sit right on the edge of town overlooking the Big Tent.
These are Joseph Conè's Cabins out towards the BLM Dome Rock camping area. We'd love to share
more about the history of these structures, but we couldn't find much of anything online.
We suppose that when you settle in a place like Quartzsite you have to make do with the
building materials you have available, and in this case it's multicolored local stone.
Leaving the cabins, we spotted a pin on Google Maps off in the mountains to the
southwest labeled, "Deere Run B&B (ATV only)". Of course, we had to see if we could go find it.
What we found was not a B&B, at least not in the traditional sense.
Instead, it's a quirky collection of oddities that someone has set up out in the desert for ATV
and UTV riders to enjoy, and the perfect place to pause for our picnic lunch.
Like all good things, the first annual Grand Adventure Rally Quartzsite
had to come to an end. But if you missed out on sharing the good times in 2022,
there's still another opportunity for you next winter.
So it's now time to get packed up and head out. You can see how pooped Zoe is! I think we're all
a little exhausted about after an absolutely fabulous week of hanging with everybody.
We had so much fun we're going to make this a regular occurrence during big tent week
down here in Quartzite, so if you'd like to join us for Quartzsite 2023 in January
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So until next week please remember, life is nothing but a Grand Adventure! We'll see you then.