Woke up just before dawn and caught a picture of sunrise on the desert.  Not to spectacular…maybe tomorrow.   We plan to drive into town, and I say “town” loosely, get gas, see if Flying J has nice trucker showers and get out before the crowds move in.  This town usually has several thousand people but it explodes into several hundred thousand during the winter, particularly now, and the desert is covered with RV’s boondocking for weeks at a time.  We fit right in with our group, now grown to 18.

John and I went into town to look for a part and found ourselves walking around a tent city.  So many tents lining the highways and selling everything imaginable.  We bought some dried apple slices and ate some yummy fish taco’s for lunch from a carnival type stand.  John wanted to fly a kite in the wide open spaces and we let the dogs run leash free for a while.  Bed time after visiting with some of the new people in the group.  Tomorrow we should add the last few stragglers to our group.

Over the last few days, John has had the opportunity to be a good citizen three times.  First was the cell phone we found on the side of the road when we were checking out the pump connections on the RV.  We mailed it back to her today.  Second was a wallet found in a shopping basket next to our car when we were leaving Wal-Mart.  John brought it inside to the Service Center.  Third was a metal table leg that we found at the junk store and John wanted to use it to build a part for the RV.  When he brought it up to pay for it, the guy said “where did you find that?  It’s my table leg and I’ve been looking everywhere for it.”  That was the third thing.  The guy told John he needed to go to Las Vegas…and that’s exactly where we are going after leaving Quartzsite.   John’s built up quite a bit of good Karma!