QUARTZSITE TO OVERTON

That wasn't the plan.  We had not planned to leave Quartzsite yet and we certainly hadn't planned to drive all the way to Overton, Nevada (approximately 300 miles, all up hill ;).  

Friday afternoon in Quartzsite it was extremely windy.  Now I know, you say, it's always windy in Quartzsite but it was really windy.

The wind and the sand.

We started seeing flash flood warnings on the tv weather channel.  We talked about moving, we decided to wait.  Saturday at bedtime, out the window, we saw this.

We hoped it wasn't a rig burning and it wasn't.  It was the garbage dump

It rained all night (after the fire was out) and in the morning we decided we would hook up and drive until it stopped raining.  It didn't stop.  

Our destination was Overton, Nevada.  Overton is a great last stop before really heading north.  The rain has just stopped so I am not going to post pictures of our site from this year.

March 2013

There are seven sites at the Overton Wild Life Refuge.  They are huge sites (sometimes three rigs are sharing) with shelters, BBQ's and fire pits.  The wildlife is all around.  The little town of Overton has most things necessary for boondocking.  There is free water behind the now defunct laundramat.  There is a decent grocery store, McDonalds with Red Box, and even a little theatre.  We will stay for about 2 weeks and then head north through Nevada.

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A little hint for fellow rv'ers.  We use Walmart almost exclusively.  This week I opened a Savings Catcher.  Every time you shop at Walmart you enter the receipt number and if there are cheaper prices on what you bought in the area, they credit your account with the different.  You can save up the amounts and have them send it to you on a gift card whenever.  I bought about $100.00 of groceries and I have $2.39 in my account.  Pretty good for doing nothing.

www.savingscatcher.walmart.com

We do not know whether the account will work in Canada.