Quartzsite RV Rally

I'm a bit late on blogging lately...just too busy with life, I guess so today I thought I'd play a little catch up.  Two weeks ago today on January 27th, Scott and I headed over to Quartzsite, Arizona for the annual Quartzsite RV Ralley there.  This year, the rally was held Jan 20-28th. In Quartzsite, there are about 750,000-1,000,000 RVers that are boondocked all along the road sides and in designated parking areas -- they all come together for the big RV show and tent sales.  The first inaugural Quartzsite RV Show opened in January 28, 1984 and it's still a big hit today. 

Every January something happens - as many as 750,000 to 1 million people mostly in RVs, converge on this sleepy, in the middle of nowhere, little Arizona town located 20 miles east of the California border.  It's known as the largest gathering of RVers in the World!  There are many groups of people that come.  Some that follow various bloggers or others that camp with all the fellow RVers who own that particular brand of RV.

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We come in on the road on the left.  The road on the right is Interstate 10

The show lasts for 8 days with people coming and going during this time.  Since we were only 1.5 hours away, we just drove in for a day of RV looking and shopping in the big tent.

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As we headed on our journey to Quartzsite, we saw all kinds of interesting landscape and mountain ranges and lots of RVs on the road.

The RV tent was one of the biggest I've ever been under with thousands of people inside.  It was very claustrophobic for sure and sometimes you just had to stand there until you could get by.Here's a couple "Where's Waldo" photos.  Can you even spot us?

The vendors sold all sorts of things from jewelry to back massager's to RV equipment, people from Alaska giving away maps of the best routes to drive to Alaska, etc.  We bought 5 sets of collapsible food containers so we can sell out Tupperware at the monthly weekend sales we have here at our park.  I also got a birth date moon necklace.  I really loved the moon necklaces.  They have light sensitive moons that will glow after the sun sets for many house showing off "your moon".  I got a moonspinner necklace with a full moon - my birth moon on one side and a blue moon - a moon that Scott and I joke about on the other  You could say Scott and I fell in love over a blue moon.  Ironically, Ryan was born on a blue moon.  There's a book that shows you what your moon is on the day you were born.  The company is Moonglow.  Click the link and discover what your moon is.

Scott was looking for a few certain vendors but didn't find what he was looking for but we did stumble upon a man selling galvanized steel generator boxes that attach to the back side of  your rig on the bumper.  We wanted to buy two, but we decided to head back to El Centro and see if it would fit our rig and good thing because our bumper goes under the rig and wouldn't have worked, which is too bad because I really like the set up and it would have given us a whole lot of storage in the front of the RV and also quiet the generator sound when we boondock.

We also took a little time to go see the Class A RVs.  It did get a little nippy in the weather so we put on our sweatshirts and headed over to the RV area to see what was for sale.  They had thousands of rigs for sale there from local vendors.  We really like the Tiffin Allegro Bus the best but we need to win the lottery to ever afford one.  Scott took some photos of me fake driving.

Despite all the walking we did there, we only logging in about 3,000 steps.  The numbers were low because we were shuffling most of the time and not really taking big steps.  Still, the day was fun and exciting.