After we left the Next Exit location at La Posa South, we headed about 2 miles toward town to La Posa North. There we joined the 2020 Quartszite Winnebago View and Navion Rally - The Skinny Winnies.
These pictures don't do the scene justice. Here we are in the middle of the Arizona desert surrounded by 200 vehicles of the same make and model. Wow!
We had multiple pot lucks, and remember that's 200 vehicles with 1 or 2 people in each.
The first night there was a pig roast. These were pork butts roasted in the ground overnight. I mean does that sound yummy or what.
Winnebago brought in factory reps to do a tech talk and answer questions. They also sponsored the wine and brought along some trinkets and prizes. Not only did we drink our fair share of wine, Cindy won a national parks pass. Very cool!
We played desert golf...
With some unique holes 😁 (Tiger Goss)
Let's just say it was a lot of fun and we laughed a lot! One of my partners (the only real golfer in our group) was Grandpa Ron. He has a YouTube channel: On the Road with Ron
...and his video of the event can be found here...
There were trivia contests, group bicycle rides and a "Coach Crawl" where everyone had a chance of to show off all the cool mods they had done to their rigs.
One of the highlights of the event was a very well done video night. Each attendee was asked to provide a couple of photos from 2019 RV travel. One of the attendees, Jim Doss took all of the photos, set them to music and created a wonderful video. Thanks Jim!
The big tent holds about 250 vendors with everything solar panels to shower heads. In addition there are installers who can install just about anything you can buy.
Outside the big tent is a sort of carnival atmosphere what where you can buy anything from deep fried Twinkies to turkey legs.
Surrounding all of that is the RV show with hundreds of new and used RVs of every possible description.
And there is more...
About half of the town of Quartszite is some part of a flea market or gemstone seller. It was a bit overwhelming, especially if you saw something and wanted to go back for a second look (speaking from experience here 🙀).
But there are also quirky bars and eateries everywhere. It's honestly a hippy feeling vibe around town, but very cool.
And speaking of quirky, you could see just about anything you can imagine. Converting old school buses to RVs is becoming quite common. New for us was seeing cars attached to these converted buses. The pictures show a mini van, a beetle, and a VW van on a bus. Who knew a car on a bus was a actually a thing. 😁
How about this RV utility pedestal in the middle of the desert. Some people have great imaginations.
I guess it's obvious we watch a bit of YouTube. There were tons of vloggers (video bloggers) there including many we follow. But we try not to bother them unless they are in a public place or have specifically invited us over. Understand that some of these vloggers have more than 200,000 subscribers. They are stars in a way and the number of people who want to say hi can be overwhelming.
The couple above are Kent and Lisa and their channel is Living Light RV. They are Canadians who live in a class A motorhome full time, spending winters in the US and summers in Canada. They are an incredibly fun loving and interesting couple. They held a meet up where we got to spend an afternoon with them and other followers. I encourage you to check out their YouTube channel: Living Light RV
Sorry this was so long. This was the last in our effort to get caught up. After Quartszite we did the Desert Bar, then moved to the Blue Water Casino, and finally The Rock Springs Pie Company. Each of these has already been posted. If you missed them check back in the blog.
We are now in Cottonwood Arizona. Lots of cool stuff in this area so look for some more current posts from here on.
Thanks for reading. Feel free to share this with anyone interested.
Cindy and Terry
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