Sunday 22nd

We left at 8:00 for a day trip to Quartzite about 85 miles away. We travelled up highway 95 past Dome Castle Mountain, stopping to watch 6 wild mules. We drove through the US Army's Yuma Proving Ground, one of the largest military installations in the world used for testing military equipment and encompasses 1,307.8 square miles (3,387.2 km²) in the northwestern Sonoran Desert. Every January Quartzite is host to the largest gathering of RVers in the world. As many as 750,000 to 1,000,000 people, mostly in RV’s, converge on this sleepy little desert town for the rock, gem and mineral shows, plus numerous flea markets and the Quartzsite Sports, Vacation & Rv Show. It was unbelievable how thousands and thousands of Rvs are parked out in the desert dry camping. From Quartzite we travelled on Interstate 10 into California and down 78 which turned out to be a very boring drive through the desert.