The BIG RV Show

Today started with 30 dozen doughnuts and coffee! That's more then three apiece for everyone here. They did announce this evening that they still had 5 dozen left for tomorrow morning. No wonder it's so hard to lose weight!

There were devotions scheduled for 9 AM which I presumed would be fairly informal. NOT! It was pretty high church, complete with preacher in collar and stole and liturgy. His homily used the story of John the Baptist and of Jesus' forty days in the wilderness. Pretty appropriate as we sat and looked out on the desert as we listened. They even had recorded organ music to accompany the hymns.

Later this morning we headed back in to Quartzite and the big RV show which started yesterday. They have a HUGE white tent with vendors. All around the perimeter two to three layers deep were vendors selling new and used RVs. I had been looking for a vendor that someone had told us about last year in Washington that installed carpet on the motorhome steps. We didn't find that one, but found a few other things we just couldn't do without! About half of the vendors have nothing to do with RVs, they're the usual "show" vendors of knives, kitchen wear, clothing, etc. But best of all, the Escapees Club had a booth and I was finally able to get SKP decals for Auntie Violet (Al had taken the previous ones with him when we traded him for Auntie Vi....)

Forry convinced me he really needed an early Valentine's Day gift and came home with a remote controlled helicopter....

While we were in Quartzite, we found the cemetery and Hi Jolly's tomb. According to the signs at the cemetery (which is still in use), there were still camels roaming in the desert around Quartzite at the turn of the last century.

Tonight's catered Italian dinner was the last official event of the rally. I think that Forry has finally gotten Auntie Violet's generator and battery issues solved. The picture shows him chatting with Engineer Bill, (in the hat) the Alpine Coach guru, on how things were now working.

We'll head back in to Quartzite again tomorrow and check out some of the other sale venues. I actually think you could spend a month here and never see all of the stuff that is for sale!