Friday to Tuesday, January 17 to 21, 2020 (La Posa South LTVA, Quartzsite, AZ)

Friday morning, we watched as Jim and Barb loaded the final things into their truck...they have quite a load! We were just waiting until it looked like they were all ready to go before we went over to say goodbye...but they beat us to it by walking over here. With big hugs, we said goodbye to our good friends...safe travels back to South Dakota. We're going to miss you! We'll see them again this summer in BC when they're on their way to Alaska.

The rest of our morning was spent in town running errands...getting propane, drinking water and filling the gas containers.

We had a lazy afternoon...enjoying the sunshine and just relaxing. At about 3:45, we loaded our chairs and adult beverages into our quads and headed over to Les and Sue's annual happy hour. Red and Pam, Ray and Deb, and Guy and Sue followed us over to their spot across the highway in La Posa Tyson Wash.

We no sooner got there when Steve got a message from Harry and Vicki that they were lost, so he hopped back onto his quad to lead them in. On his way there he came across the Ferg's so had them wait until he returned with Harry and Vicki.

Les and Sue had quite the group...22 in all! I don't remember everyone's name...four couples were other friends of Les and Sue's, but Allen and Donna, Ray and Deb, Harry and Vicki, Pam and Red, Sue and Guy...as well as us, were all there...(thanks for the picture Les/Sue!)
As usual Sue had been cooking up a storm for the last few days and put on quite a spread of delicious dishes. Their "happy hours" do not consist of a couple appetizers...she puts on dinner, complete with an array of yummy desserts!

We had a wonderful time...it's just unfortunate that there was a cool wind blowing that made the gathering disperse a little earlier than usual. Les had everyone's attention about something...

Saturday (Jan. 18)...and another beautiful day. Steve and I got out for a short walk in the morning and that was pretty much all we did...all day! A very quiet relaxing day.

Sunday (Jan. 19) was another pretty lazy day…just enjoying the beautiful sunshine. Steve and I got out for a little ride around the LTVA just to check out the area. It’s pretty busy here now that the Show is on. It’s also the time when a lot of big rally gatherings happen. We came across the Bluebird bus group, the RRV (Rainbow RV) group, and the Entegra Class A motorhome group...lots of $$$ parked there!

Other than that, we just chilled…Steve reading and I was crocheting. At 4:00, we had a small gathering at our place. Dale and Chloe had arrived for a couple of nights. They are the folks that live in Apache Junction who were kind enough to let us store our rig at their place last year when we flew home for Christmas. So they popped over, along with Cindi, Ray, Deb, Dino and Lisa.
Left to right, around the circle...Chloe, Dale, Deb, Ray, Cindi, Lisa, Dino and Steve...

 A fellow in a powered para glider flew over....

Monday (Jan. 20) morning, we had a beautiful sunrise...

Deb picked me up at 8:30 and we were off to Parker…time to restock our groceries! After a stop at Walmart and Safeway…and lunch at Crossroads Café…we were on our way home. Thanks for letting me tag along, Deb!

For a change it was a dull, cloudy day…what a difference from all of the sunny days we have been having.

View of our back yard...

It was definitely a campfire kind of day…so Steve got a fire going and Jim, Cec, Dale, Chloe, Cindi, Dino and Steve M. joined us. We enjoyed a couple of hours out there and then everyone dispersed shortly after 6:00 to go home for dinner.

Tuesday (Jan. 21) was “ride day”! Claude and Theresa (camped over in La Posa Tyson Wash) had rented a 4-seat side-by-side for the day and asked Steve if he could organize a ride to Skull Rock. It turned out to be quite a group…there were 13 machines in all between their group and ours. I took Allison’s spot with Earl in their SxS…and ended up driving it for most of the day. Thanks Earl…I had a great time!

It was another cool, cloudy day…taking a break as it's almost an hour and 20 minute ride just to the entrance to the Skull Rock Valley...

The views are spectacular!

Steve McCormick venturing out from the mouth of Skull Rock...

The balancing tall rock has a slot under it...

Steve climbed to the base of it...

There's not much at it's base holding it up...

Looking through the slot into the next valley...

Full view of the valley behind the balancing rock...

View from the balancing rock...

It wasn't long before others joined Steve to check out the views...

Three of Claude and Teresa's group left to take care of their dogs while the rest of us went to check out the spiral labyrinth in the Kofa...

People have left all kinds of trinkets in it's center...

From here Guy, Sue, Roger, Penny, Matt, Sheila and Steve and Debbie left to check out Palm Canyon while the rest of us rode to the abandoned microwave tower...

The building on the left was open and still had lots of it's equipment just left although a lot of the wiring had been removed. The travel trailer had a broken door window but was surprisingly very clean inside...even the bed was made up.

View from the tower...

Our next stop was a wildlife watering area...

A shaded water trough...

It was after 4:30 when we got home...a great day! There were bits of blue sky breaking through the clouds but it was still chilly.

Guy and Sue had a fire going so we went over and joined them for awhile. Deb, Steve, Sheila, Matt, Sue, Guy, Roger was working, Penny, and me.

Another great day on the desert comes to an end!