RV Parking within the date palms

This Thousand Trails is in a date palm grove. This provides interest and opportunity and challenges.

Picture taken out the front window of the bus.

I didn't really think about it when we parked here, but this spot is quite handy as it is right across from one of the laundry rooms and the bath house. While we have laundry onboard Miss Doozie, I find using it to be less than useful - the loads are very small, and I have to pull the wet laundry out and dry 1/3-1/2 of it at a time. Usually I go to a laundromat outside the RV park because I don't like to use up all of their washers at one time, but with it being just right across a driveway, I did 3 loads on the day we arrived, and two more yesterday. It is nice to be able to run back to the bus and do other things while the clothes are washing and drying.

Also, while we usually use the toilet facilities on the bus, sometimes it is handy to have a second toilet!!! And this bathhouse is quite clean and nice to use.

Bet you thought that the sunset pictures were finished once Patti left Quartzsite... well... they aren't!

Sunset in the date palm grove - Miss Doozie's rearview mirror on the left side of the picture.

 Note that there are also cabins that can be rented at this (and most, maybe all) Thousand Trails parks. One of the cabins is just behind and to the right of us - you can see it in the picture just above.

The sky is quite brilliant blue today. I took this picture first to try to show ladders in the date palm trees, but you can't really see them....

Here you may be able to see ladders in the date palm trees. According to one of the other RVers here, these used to be used in the harvesting process, but now they are picked with "cherry picker" type of trucks.

Besides having to negotiate around the trees when getting into the parking spaces, if an RV has slides, sometimes they need to figure out how to position their rig so the slides don't run into a date palm (or the electric pole). This one has the tree right up next to the trailer, and the front slide just clearing it. The back slide is almost against the electric post.