Last day at Quartzsite and heading to California

This was parked outside the gas station when we went to fill up with gas.  It is something carried over from the "60's".

I thought it was unique

We decided to take the Ranger one more time out in the desert.  We went to where Ed had been digging for gold.    You are suppose to put your name and date on something and then you have 14 days to dig there.  Most people use a stick but Ed didn't have one so this is what he used. 

This is the way most people mark their claim

This is the way Ed marks his,  (only Ed)

We took a little walk and found this old rv refrigerator in a wash.  A  wash is  a dry bed where the water has run down from the mountain. 

Makes you wonder how it got there

We found another hole where someone had dug.  It was solid rock inside. As you can see we were bundled up.  It wasn't that cold but on the Ranger with no windshield it does get cold. 

This would have taken some digging

We could see a road further out up the mountain, and Ed wanted to go check it out.  So we decided to go for it.  We were about 8 miles out from the campsite and he thought this was probably only a few more miles.  I figured it was a lot further than he thought.  And it was.  I bet it was another 8 to 10 miles. 


You can see the white out a ways, that was the road we followed up the mountain

Some of it was a little tough going

The view was fantastic

You can't tell but it was a sharp drop off on the side of the road

At the top someone had put a memorial, I wonder if maybe they had his ashes here

So we left Quartzsite this morning, heading west on I-10.  We only had to travel 128 miles, so it was going to be an easy day.  As we left Arizona and entered  California you couldn't tell any difference.  Looked pretty much the same except there weren't any cactus.   As we got further away from Arizona we did start seeing some palm trees.    There wasn't much traffic which is always nice.  At one point Ed says you are missing the scenery because I was on the computer.  I said "what scenery, it never changes". 

looked like they were growing something, you don't see much
of that out here

A little more green than we saw in Arizona

We are at a Thousand Trails rv park.  It says they have 397 sites.  Boy, are we packed in here and it is full.  I think we saw 4 or 5 empty sites.  There are palm trees everywhere, so before we set up we checked to see if we could get a satellite signal.  I bet we messed with it for 2 hours before we finally got the signal.  So by the time we were done and Ed had hooked up the rv we needed a nap.

Our neighbor feeds a couple of road runners peanuts so they have become very friendly with him. 

Bye for now.   Ed and Lyn