Wednesday - January 23, 2008

Today was another nice sunny day but a bit on the cool side, it was perfect weather for doing Quartzsite.

We picked Jim and Sonia up at 10:30 and headed north, about 1-1/2 miles south of Quartzsite the traffic slowed down to a crawl, Jim and Sonia have never been there during the show or busy time so were completely amazed by the traffic, tents of goods and people. We managed to find a parking spot in front of Beaudry RV so started wandering around and looking at their RV’s – boy are there ever some beautiful motor homes out there. Beaudry’s had their huge tent with free lunch so we went and got something to eat, today it was refried beans, rice and chilli, very good. After fortifying ourselves we toured a few more motor homes then headed over to the huge RV show tent. Wow, the number of vendors there is mind boggling but the prices are ridiculous. The cell phone holder I bought here at the market for about $5 was $13 at one place and $14 at another, the popcorn tops which are very popular down here are $8 at the market and were $12 for the same thing today and ladies tops that are $10 here at the market were $24 in Quartzsite, sure is a huge difference in prices so we wondered how much they actually sell. It pays to know the prices before heading up there as in the RV show tent there didn’t appear to be very many deals.

Sonia and I stopped and tasted a soup which one vendor was selling, you just add water and simmer for 15 minutes but we both felt $6.50 for a box of dried soup was too pricey, then a bit later we tasted some popcorn – they had different flavours so we tried a carmel and a cheese (one piece only if you please!) – price was $5 for a small bag. We figure they probably get a lot more people tasting than buying!!

On the way back to the truck Sonia and I stopped at a stall that Janet and I had been in a couple of weeks ago and I bought a lovely dressy zip up jacket with a short sleeved top to match, it was a really good price and too pretty to pass up. Sonia wanted to buy the same set but they didn’t have any matching jackets and tops in her size so she didn’t get one and was very disappointed as she really like them too.

It was about 7 when we got back so we went to Da Boyz Pizza and Pasta for dinner, Jim and Sonia treated us to pizza which was really yummy.

All in all it was another great day in our life of retirement and we look forward to another great day tomorrow.