So we have been at Sundance RV park in Earp, CA for a little over a week now. We have met some nice people, the view of the river is beautiful. The weather is generally cool at night, and warm & sunny during the day. The past few days have been pretty windy, however, blowing around lots of dust (even when it’s not windy there is dust on everything). On the non-windy days we kayak upstream towards the parker dam and have an easy paddle back to the campground. It is very peaceful this time of year. We have been told that in spring and summer the area gets very busy and there are lots of speedboats on the river – but now it is pretty quiet.
We made a couple trips down the Quartzite, AZ this week. Quartzite is a crazy desert town where millions of RVs migrate every winter. There a some commercial campgrounds where you pay for a site but thousands of RVs just pull off the road and dry camp in the desert. Additionally there is a huge area where vendors have booths in a flea market style. We had fun but also very dusty!!
In the 1930s, while the aqueducts and dams were being built on the river, this town was known as Cross Roads with a population of several thousand. Below is what remains of the Cross Roads Mercantile Company.
Yesterday we walked across the street from the campground and took a hike in the hills. There is no civilization there. Only desert, hills, and dirt roads. There is an interesting rock structure that looks (to me) like a finger pointing to the sky. It can be seen for miles.
We can see sunsets and sunrises here.
