Our last day at Quartzfest

We had decided that we'd had as much fun in the desert as we wanted, so planned to return to Mesa on Thursday. Quartzfest did not end until Saturday, but we were wanting to return to Venture Out for the Friday evening dance and to get back to the luxury of having full hookups! (We like boondocking, but after a few weeks, it is nice to not have to continually consider your water and electric usage!)

At the happy hour each evening, they hand out chances to win a raffle for that evening ---

My ticket was drawn and I won two coasters!

They had been hand-made by another participant in Quartzfest and were really nice, on a piece of slate, with an etched picture of a small trailer and solar panels and ham radio antennas.

We decided that having the slate coasters in our rig was not a good idea as they could get dropped and broken, but we wanted to make sure that someone attending Quartzfest 2024 got them. We had a fire in our propane fire pit in the evening with friends from the SunLife Radio Club and asked if any of them would want them -- and one of the ladies recommended that we re-donate them to be given away in a raffle on another evening. Since we were to leave on Thursday morning, she graciously offered to "donate" them for us.

Sunrise on our last morning in Quartzsite. We definitely will miss the beautiful sunrises and sunsets as we don't have a very clear view to the east or the west from our lot in Mesa.

We drove back to Mesa, filling with diesel fuel on the way. We figured we used about a quarter of a tank of diesel fuel (25 gallons) with running the generator and powering the furnace during our 20 days of boondocking in the desert. We had higher usage of the generator both because there were several days that solar gain was marginal (due to clouds) and we were cooking dishes for pot lucks (our coach is all-electric, no propane stove or oven). We had filled up in Tonopah on our way west when coming to Quartzsite, and filled up there again on our way back east toward Mesa.

We enjoyed our time and will enjoy returning, probably next January!