The last day at Q, 2017

First - sorry for no post yesterday - I was fighting off a cold and felt pretty miserable yesterday, but succeeded in killing it off with various vitamins, supplements, and rest. I didn't leave the bus yesterday; Dwayne went to the Quartzsite museum, but he didn't have anything to write up about it.

Today was our last full day at Quartzsite for 2017. We decided we had better dump and get some fresh water today. We were very conservative last week and made it through the week without any need to dump or get water. This week, we knew that the dump and water was just 1/4 mile down the road, so we weren't anywhere near as conservative, but still made it over a week. We probably could have made it through today and gotten to our full hookup site tomorrow, but... the fresh tank was showing "empty". It still has some in it even when it shows empty, but it is **really bad** if we run out of fresh water, so we decided not to chance it.

There was a bit of a line up for the dump station - but it was ok... the line moved along pretty quickly.

While waiting, we checked GasBuddy and decided we should fuel up in Quartzsite rather than waiting for Yuma - there is one station here in Quartzsite that seems to have better prices.

Our odometer on the dash seems to have gotten flakey, so I got the mileage off the ProDriver. For some reason, it doesn't agree with the mileage of the odometer on the dash, but I guess we'll need to use it to figure MPG until we get the odometer on the dash working again.

The odometer on the dash shows this odd 4 letter message before the mileage comes up. I don't know whether it means something or not.

The odometer on the dash then blinks this value - which I think may be 69999.9. The last time we bought fuel (just south of Phoenix on our way to Cottonwood), the odometer indicated 69959.6, and it was while we were in Cottonwood that I noticed it was blinking and seemed to have 69999.9. Note: the first digit (the 6) has not had the lower right vertical bar showing for a while.

Dwayne took a picture so we can remember the amount that we fueled, but I won't be able to calculate the MPG because I didn't record the ProDriver mileage the last time we filled up. Our MPG would be pretty bad since we've been running the generator so much since we've been at Quartzsite.

One of the things we got in the Big Tent was a "Flag Pole Buddy". It is supposed to allow you to put up a flag pole without having to climb up high. Well... you do have to climb up high to install the brackets, but once they are installed, it seems to be pretty easy to mount the flag. You may be able to see the two brackets on the left side of the rear ladder of the coach.

There's the flag flying high! We also got a "solar globe" that lights up at night on top of the pole and changes color, and a solar light that will light the flag up at night so we don't need to take it down at night. The brackets definitely make it easier to get the flag pole up and down.

Tonight was BBQ night - the same folks who made the Prime Rib made pork and beef BBQ. It was yummy! The sunset didn't have clouds so it wasn't quite as majestic as last night, but still nice.

Tomorrow, most of the Blue Birds will be heading out to various spots - 15-20 are heading to Mexico. A few, like us, are heading to Yuma. Others will be making their way back home. It has been a fun time, but we're ready to get to Yuma and hopefully clean out some of the dust that we've accumulated here in the desert!!!