Good Greasy Grub, and Divine Desert Destinations

Here are a few photos from our first week and some random beta for those of you hitting up the Kofa/Quartzsite area.

In the middle of Nowhere on 95, about 25 miles south of Quartzite, is a funny little food stand that serves, as you can see, a generous greasy 10 pound block of curly fries to the passerby. You can also find there date shakes, buffalo burgers, alligators with bobbly heads, and old western romance novels.

The sunset photo is from Palm Canyon road in Kofa, a great place to camp on desert pavement (last photo is of our camp). Kofa has convenient primitive camping everywhere . . . down almost any dirt road you can find desert pavement pull-offs where folks have camped before . . . though we especially liked the view here at Palm Canyon. And you can have a campfire! (Firewood is for sale at the "Big Market" in Quartzsite . . . though locals advise not to buy food there as they turn off their coolers at night :). There is another decent market for food re-supply in Quartzsite . . . and if you are wanting to shop for that new RV that you've been saving up for, THIS IS THE PLACE.

The 4th photo is a shot of our favorite subplot . . . on top of a cinder cone. The beautiful 360 view was the reward for doing 4 other subplots on the 30 degree sloping sides of it.

Happy Trails!

and one more photo of real treasure: Castela emoryi, well named Crucifixtion Thorn