Left Coasters: Ideas for a Midwinter Break?

The coming winter may well prove to be a nasty one for our poor old republic. One of the bright spots (right now at least) is the price of diesel.

Am thinking the time might be right for a gathering. End of January until the middle of February might be a good window. What say? Ideas for a venue? Am thinking of places like: San Diego area, Borrego Springs, Ventura County, Havasu, Palm Desert, etc. You Southlanders know the best spots. Activities might include a barby or pig feed, a geocache event (there's an expert in our midst) or anything else that might divert us from these troubled times.....

I need to do something with the Girls when Mom goes to Vegas for the weekend of Jan 17 or something like that. I would love to do a bus thing, I am sure the girls will be into whatever the place or plan is.

Brian,

I have been "secretly" contacting various people (including you) regarding this very topic. We have a lot of people already going to be in the Arizona area in Jan/Feb of next year.

Off the top of my head:

You and Beverly
Dale and Jan
The Queen of the road will be in the Southern CA area mid January
I believe that Harry spends time in Tucson area then too.

There's several local SoCal guys, and most have been receptive to planning something for Jan/Feb.

I'd be happy to try to coordinate something with you. Let me know. We ended up getting 20+ coaches out at Rancho last January.

Ray

Don't forget about Quartzite. Yep, it's coming up soon. The big Sports, Vacation and RV show starts the weekend of Jan 17 and runs for 9 days. Check out their web at www.quartzitervshow.com. In addition to the big show there is a swap meet/flea market that is huge, full of stuff you didn't know you could live without. If any of you POGgers are interested in boondocking for a few days, give me an PM and I'll send you the lat and long of where we camp. Everybody should do this at least once!! Use your bus in a way that it was never intended to be used, out in the middle of BLM land in Q.

Left Coasters -- Janet and I are camping with our Elks club in Desert Hot Springs Jan 9 - 11, arriving Quartzite Jan 14 thru Jan 18. Leaving for Las Cruces Jan 19 for 3 weeks or so of building for Habitat for Humanity. Back to Desert Hot Springs Feb 13 - 15 with the Elks again. Month of March we'll be in Indio.

Anybody else glad diesel is down to $2.00??

Ken

I'm so happy I can hardly wait for it to go back down below $1.00/gallon. If it goes down to around $1.00/gallon I'm going to Alaska. I have always wanted to go but the high price of diesel dampened my spirts.


I remember when marine diesel (no road taxes) was $.56/gallon. It was 1986 or 1987 if memory serves. Boy, those were the days!:D

KEn,

Don't bury Bluevost in the Quartzite sand....what a sinking feeling. Might take a few sheets of 3/4 inch plywood cut in half and a rake and shovel.;)
Yes, there is a story behind this.......later.:D

We are interested Ray, Brian, & Ken. We have no preference. We would like to make it a week.

Ken,

That link gives me a Chinese Search Engine....but maybe that's the best description of Quartzite ever :D

Flew over the place the other day, it is already crowded. Anyway my 2 cents is somewhere in the Desert, even the nicest parts of SoCal take a pretty good whacking with the rains in January and February!

Ken,

I asked Jeep about Quartzite a while back and he told me I was nuts to want to park in a dust bowl and suggested going to Lake Havasu and visit by toad. I always do what the Jeepster says, so what's up with the dust bowl thing?:confused:

How does a long weekend starting Feb. 13th work? Suggest either Indio or Havasu. Need some local knowledge here re a nice RV park. Will check availability and each can make his own reservations. Jello, are you there? Calling all desert rats......