Wednesday Mar 13, 2024 Lake Havasu to Koffa National Wildlife Refuge

 

Great night at Lake Havasu, gotta come back. Today we dive into the Quartzsite scene. The Quartzsite area is a mecca for RV folks in the winter. There are vast BLM Dispersed camping places available and the town itself has anything an RV person could want. There is a little kinda secret place south of Quartzsite that a friend tipped us off to last year and Deb & I stayed there once. 

We tried to follow the Colorado River as closely as we could which took us south and then a bit west over the river to Blythe CA. Lots of crops being grown, not sure what. They need to put signs next to every field saying what they are growing. Drives me nuts.

We hit interstate Rt 10 and then east to the Quartzsite exit. We saw gas prices go up by a dollar in California and then back down by a dollar in Arizona.

Quartzsite was fairly busy. We went north to find one of the big dispersed camping areas so Dave could see what that was all about. Then south on Rt 95 and turn into the Palm Canyon area of Koffa. It’s about 5 miles to the end where you can hike into the canyon where the palm trees are. Deb and I did it last year. Not too many people here so we drove back down the hill about a half mile and pulled into one of the many flat spots with a fire ring of rocks. 

We relaxed until after the sun went down. Dave saw a string of Starlink satellites going by. They launched 23 more this morning and I assume they were on their way to being placed in the right spots up there. Space is getting crowded for sure.

Made some dinner and then off to bed.