It was Sunday, the day after Alumafandango ended.  Now where do we go?  We had been in Tucson for about 7 nights and time to go somewhere else.  My mother only lives 150 miles away from Tucson and it is ‘kind of’ on the way that we were going.  She ‘guilted’ us into coming to visit as only mom’s can do.  Really it is always good when we stop to visit.

So the issue was where to stay.  I called Usery Regional Mountain Park west of my mother but they were full.  I called the Paradise RV resort and they had room for two nights (we stayed there about 5 weeks ago) so I asked them to hold it for us.  During this time my mother and Roxie were texting (remember we gave my mother an iPhone and created a monster) about staying in her driveway.  My mom lives in a ‘Del Webb’-type housing area.  Everyone has to be 55 or older and they have a lot of odd covenants and restrictions.  I didn’t think we could stay there.  She said up to 4 nights.  So that is what we did.  I called the RV resort and told them we would not be there and we headed to my mother’s.  Here we are doing some urban camping:

We were glad we stopped off to see her.  On the full day we had there my mom had other appointments so I started on a portable solar panel hunt.  I must have called 15 places before I found one.  I got a 130W portable setup.  I will give it a try when we get to the desert area.

The plan is to go to Quartzsite, again, for about 2 nights then possibly on to the Salton Sea area.  But this trip might just end up a mirror image of the last Arizona trip but that is OK with me.

We got to Quartzsite on Tuesday and had to stop at the Family Dollar store.  How this town survived without that is a mystery to me, they must have had to drive to Blythe.  I looked at the BLM areas and we stopped at Road Runner the last time.  This time I thought we would head north and go to Hi Jolly BLM.  Turns out it is a bit closer to town, a bit closer to the road and RIGHT across the highway from a cell tower so we have great coverage right now.  Here we are:

It is nice to get to some warmer weather.  No heater needed last night a prediction of at least 80 today.  We don’t know what we are going to do and that is just fine with us.  Another post in a day or two…

Today started oddly for us.  We got up early enough to go down and have breakfast!  The morning flew by but I cannot say what we did.  I cannot remember.  The next thing we knew that it was time for Food Truck Friday.

Rich and Brett brought in 3 food trucks from the local area.  One was German food, another Indian and the last was an Asian Mexican Fusion.  We chose the latter.  I had a Bam Bam Burger (Korean meat, pineapple salsa, 4 cheeses and a Sriracha dressing).  Roxie had  a Korean burrito.  They were both very good.  Here is Rich getting his order (also a Bam Bam Burger):

Right after lunch we went shopping for a bit.  We picked up a Dyson DC44 for us in the trailer.  Thank you Cindy and Allen.  We also got a few groceries since Roving Happy Hour was coming at 5pm.

Roving Happy Hour (RHH) is, in concept, upto 5 trailers obtain a blue rotating beacon (much like Kmart).  The rest of the Airstreamers are welcome to stop into these marked locations and partake of whatever refreshments there are.  The interesting thing about this one is that 5 beacons went out initially but two came back!  That meant that 3 trailers were doing the RHH. And we were one of them…

At Alumafandango 2013 Roxie was interested in doing it.  There was one every evening there.

Roxie made some dip with chips and we heated up some Orange Chicken.

it was a huge success.  We consistently had people outside and inside the trailer.  This is one of the best things about these get-togethers is people get to see inside of other’s trailers.  I primarily did the inside and Roxie the outside.  I was unable to take any pictures because we were busy for about 2 hours.  It was fantastically fun!

We got to the evening presentation late but it was just starting.  Carlos Lozano from Vanishing Tucson  presented about the Tiki/Polynesian influence in the world and Tucson specifically.  On the way home some neighboring Airstreamers mentioned that Airstream did the same in their trailer with the Ocean Breeze motif.  Too bad that couldn’t have been worked in:

Tomorrow is the last day and then all the Airstreams will disperse.  Always a sad day.