Good sunny morning from Quartzsite, Arizona! We are back in Quartzsite until 2/28. We're dry camping at the same place we were last time. Familiar territory for Bonehead. Before we left Florence, I took a couple of neat sunset pictures.
Aside from seeing our friends, Jim and Carol who are still parked across the road from us, we needed to talk to Solar Bill. That is where we bought the inverter and solar panels. We're having a problem with the new inverter and can't use our solar panels right now. Today Dan is gonna call the inverter people and get some help in trouble shooting. Hes done all that he can by himself. Hopefully we'll get the problem solved before we leave here......Yersteday, 2/25, we had a blast! We were gone almost all day on some quads. I rode double with our neighbor Jim. Dan road double with neighbor Ken. And another neighbor, Jim, rode alone.
We rode to one of General Patton's Training Grounds. No buildings. Just miles and miles and miles of desert ground where the General did training. We were between Quartzsite and Bouse, AZ. We took the metal detector, but you didn't need it. We would get off the more traveled quad roads and just walk out into the desert to pick up treasures. We picked up 50 caliber bullets, tracers, and clips just laying on the ground. The clip has three holes. It was part of the feed system that tied the bullets together to run through the machine gun.
We couldn't any brass casings. Not this time anyway. I put a whole bullet beside one that hit something and took a picture of it. Look at the damage. Wonder what it hit?
I was trying to imagine the guys training out there, probably year round. It was a nice day for us, but the summer had to be awful for them. If they were on foot alot of the time, that would have been awful too. Would have been a long walk back to wherever their tents or barracks were. I'm gonna clean up the clips a little bit and find an old mason jar and put them inside. It will make an interesting conversation piece, I'm thinking.....We continued on and stopped along the road to pick up some neat rocks. I liked the jasper best of all. Then Ken took us to a dead end where an old shovel, maybe from the 40's, was sitting along side the hill. Think there was a mining operation there at one time. I stayed across the gully from it, but all the guys had to go check it out. That was a "guy thing". Checking it out and wondering who built the engine. Stuff like that.
I think they all had a good time discussing that old shovel. I took a couple of pictures looking back from the dead end.
When we finally got home, we both look like we had been in a bad dust storm. We were covered in dust, especially the backs of us. Probably because we were on the back riding double. It was great fun and we both loved it. Being here in Arizona, there are alot of places to ride on a quad. More so than on the Harley........Anyway, it was a good day. We came back home and took Miss Bonehead out for awhile to make her happy, then fired up the generator and settled in for a evening of tv and computer time.
Aside from seeing our friends, Jim and Carol who are still parked across the road from us, we needed to talk to Solar Bill. That is where we bought the inverter and solar panels. We're having a problem with the new inverter and can't use our solar panels right now. Today Dan is gonna call the inverter people and get some help in trouble shooting. Hes done all that he can by himself. Hopefully we'll get the problem solved before we leave here......Yersteday, 2/25, we had a blast! We were gone almost all day on some quads. I rode double with our neighbor Jim. Dan road double with neighbor Ken. And another neighbor, Jim, rode alone.
We rode to one of General Patton's Training Grounds. No buildings. Just miles and miles and miles of desert ground where the General did training. We were between Quartzsite and Bouse, AZ. We took the metal detector, but you didn't need it. We would get off the more traveled quad roads and just walk out into the desert to pick up treasures. We picked up 50 caliber bullets, tracers, and clips just laying on the ground. The clip has three holes. It was part of the feed system that tied the bullets together to run through the machine gun.
We couldn't any brass casings. Not this time anyway. I put a whole bullet beside one that hit something and took a picture of it. Look at the damage. Wonder what it hit?
I was trying to imagine the guys training out there, probably year round. It was a nice day for us, but the summer had to be awful for them. If they were on foot alot of the time, that would have been awful too. Would have been a long walk back to wherever their tents or barracks were. I'm gonna clean up the clips a little bit and find an old mason jar and put them inside. It will make an interesting conversation piece, I'm thinking.....We continued on and stopped along the road to pick up some neat rocks. I liked the jasper best of all. Then Ken took us to a dead end where an old shovel, maybe from the 40's, was sitting along side the hill. Think there was a mining operation there at one time. I stayed across the gully from it, but all the guys had to go check it out. That was a "guy thing". Checking it out and wondering who built the engine. Stuff like that.
I think they all had a good time discussing that old shovel. I took a couple of pictures looking back from the dead end.
When we finally got home, we both look like we had been in a bad dust storm. We were covered in dust, especially the backs of us. Probably because we were on the back riding double. It was great fun and we both loved it. Being here in Arizona, there are alot of places to ride on a quad. More so than on the Harley........Anyway, it was a good day. We came back home and took Miss Bonehead out for awhile to make her happy, then fired up the generator and settled in for a evening of tv and computer time.
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