CORRECTION; THERE IS ALSO NATIONAL FOREST LANDS WHICH ARE PUBLIC LANDS MANAGED BY THE FOREST SERVICE. SOMEHOW I CUT THAT PART OUT IN EDITNG. Get an exclusive Surfshark VPN Holiday Season deal! Enter promo code CarolynsRV to get up to 6 additional months for free at surfshark.deals/CarolynsRV *Get your 2024 **#RVLife** Calendar now!* www.carolynsrvlife.com/rvliving-calendar/ Check out my videos about Quartzsite: A day in RV Life Quartzsite: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rsuSmaaCnp_dlJ8.html The Big Tent Quartzsite: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aMBypK-Vspurgas.html

I've done Q a couple times, it was fun and such a whirlwind. Now I prefer to hang out around Yuma, it's warmer and better shopping. ☮

Ive been trying to get to the RTR for several years. In 18 I desided i couldnt afford to drive down in my class A, 7 mpg was to expensive, I'm on SS. So the next year I was. In the hospital. In 20 I sold my classA and baught a 2009 chevy box truck, and I have been trying to get it built out. With health problems and a broken foot and lack of money its going real slow. Little by little I am getting some of the things I think I need. But another year goes by. I still have the dream and I will get there sooner or lator.

This video couldn't be more timely for me! I've been saying all year that i am going to the next R.T.R. unless I am dead or in the hospital. 2023 has been a "lost year" for me; I'm calling this trip a "Spiritual Pilgrimage" to to reset my journey through this life. Hope to see all of you there in Quartzsite! "Hey! Ho! Let's Go ! !"

I used to be a complete extrovert, but after years of customer service, I am now an extrovert introvert. Now need away time from people.

Hi Carolyn!! Thanks for shipping my calendar!! Cheers! ~M

love your Christmas tree, happy holidays 🥰

Wow! I’ve been following since you were about 1 year into your big adventure!

Carolyn, you look so happy. Happy as in life. I haven't seen your videos for quite some time but popped on one. I enjoyed this video, which is very positive and informative. Thank you. I would like to go yo Quartzsite too. Take care.

Thank you, another place to go an see something new an different, can’t wait to see the next video

Keep up the good work. You look beautiful!

Love you two girls...😊...this is good refresher of info...want to get tbere....can't wait to hear about restaurants..stay safe and happy..catch you next time

I'm up in Lake Havasu right now, waiting on some mail, and then I'm heading down to Plomosa road area.

I’ve been to Quartzsite for three years in a row. I just left there two weeks ago. The one thing you didn’t mention is all the places to explore rocks. It’s the rock capital of the world! In January, there are several rock and gem shows, and there is Gem World, on Main Street where you can get so much stuff it will blow your mind. You will see a lot of stuff there at wholesale prices that you will pay double for in other areas. If you are a “rock hound”, you will love Quartzsite. And I personally like Patty’s Propane a lot better than the Pit Stop. They are super professional at Patty’s and really nice people.

Hahaha just noticed your Christmas tree, very festive ❤

Hey Carolyn great video. I am in Quartzsite for my 5th winter since being full time! Your video pretty much hit the nail on the head nice that you did a little bit of history at the beginning for those that really don’t know much about Quartzsite. ❤

Actually I want to mention that the two stores you are talking about are very good with supplying what I need, I use the Roadrunner for all my vegetables' and fruit. I like Coyote Fresh for my meat, much better this year and better than Walmart or safeway and or Albertsons, I find the quality of meat to be very good. So just to give a heads up those two stores are doing great. The Big Market is doing hardware stuff now so you can find almost everything you might need in a pinch. I have been coming to Quartzsite sense 1976. My mother lived here snowbirding and bought property. So now I bought a place last year and am full time. I find it fun and people are very friendly.

I'm an introvert but societal pressures rewards the extrovert and so masked for many years. Grateful to have gone back to my introvert true nature. I'm in Quartzsite, not so bad in early Dec.

This will be the third time I will be going to Q. I love parking out at Hi Jolly BLM, and Laposa South. I also have parked at the LTVA. it is $40 for 14 days. I also go to the RV Pit stop. in 2023 it cost $16 to dump and fill up with good water. I don't remember what propane cost but it was reasonable. Hope to see you there in Jan 2024

I’m hoping to experience Quartzite this January for the first time. I was there a couple weeks ago just for one night passing through. I’ve been watching you for probably 6 years now and I’m finally just getting out.

Thank you for all the information! Pretty Christmas tree!

Hi from Canada.I follow someone who goes to Quartzsite every year .They love it I really enjoy your Videos

Thanks for the ton of info and personal reflections on Quartzite! Your organizing all this knowledge makes it feel way less overwhelming …what to expect and direction to good resources when we go. My January is already spoken for, (so oh well no RTR or Rv show this year), hopefully I’ll make it out to Q later in the winter..and then return for the big events someday. ☮️🌈

Thanks for this video, I am heading to Quartzsite January 2nd from Boston, my first time. I am looking forward to it. Maybe we will see each other. Take care safe travels Carolyn

Hi Carolyn Thank You for All your Help about Quartzsite. Yes Jeff and l will be in Quartzsite for the third time. We have a ball with the U-Tubers🙋‍♀️😃👍 We would love to meet You and Precious Sadie❤🐶

Have a great time. Looking forward to seeing your next videos.👍

Absolutely loved hearing about the Camel Corps. That’s wild!

I got my calendar very nice photography. You did a good job this year. Happy Holidays

Am totally adverse to crowds and am mostly at home in my sticks and bricks. Bricks are cold in the winter.

the 2024 the RTRs which will be held at the Quartzsite city park from Jan. 11 to Jan. 19! WRTR is going to be Jan 11-14, RTR Jan 15-19 And in the past two years they have had a Rv open house on the weekend between them.

Great video!

Hi Carilyn. Thanks for this ‘splainer’. Really thorough. Happy trails, stay safe. 🙏🏼🐾🎶

There is a very nice hardware store in Parker, about two blocks from the library.

Happy Hollidays Everyone

I've been full time living and traveling for 9+ years. The first 41/2 years I was in a Ford E350 van. I blew the engine in my van and spent 3 months on my daughter's sofa. Then I bought a 1976 Class C and have been in that for 5 years. I used to follow Bob Wells and wanted to go to the RTR since the second or third year. It never worked out and after a while it just got too big. I lost interest and never went. I was honestly not aware there was more than the RTR going on there. I might reconsider for 2025. For 2024 I plan to complete the only item on my bucket list. I'm going to visit and stay at least one night in all 50 states. I only have two left. Maine and Vermont. I'll be heading to those two states next year.

excellent information

Very helpful. I am also an extroverted introvert!

Very much enjoyed your video on Q. Since the pandemic began I've been following many RV'rs on KZfaq. Just found yours and have subscribed. I love the RV life in terms of destinations, but hate the long lonely travel in between. So, I will probably stay in my sticks and bricks home and follow you all on KZfaq. Love you videos. Happy trails to you.

Going for my 'rite of passage' next month! My sister bought a class A and I car glamp and we're going to go check it all out. Always the best info here, Carolyn.

The Army Corps of Engineers also operates a series ot RV Campgrounds across the country, some with full hookups.

This is not at all the picture I had in my head of Quartzsite. 😂 Thank you for this! ❤

I LOVE your videos!!! You inspire me. Thank you!

Great info.

WHAT !!! Anais Nin was in Quartzite !!! What did that woman not do !!! Oh, & by the way, it wasnt Arthur Miller, it was Henery Miller. When you said that, i thought, no. I think it was Henery Miller. Arthur Miller was a dancer wasn't he ? Thank you for this video. Good info in here for a beginner RVer. Ill have to pass it on. Thank you so much. MERRY CHRISTMAS ❤❤❤

Such a good and informative video! Thanks for sharing Carolyn.

Carolyn, listen to the song “Hi Jolly”, by the Kingston Trio. I loved it as a teenager, 60 years ago, & learned then about Hadji Ali. When I finally got to Quartzsite, the first thing I did was look up his memorial! BTW, although I don’t often comment, I’ve been following you for 4 years & have taken much of your shared wisdom/experience to heart!

I haven't even watched it yet and I know I would rather spent time in the hills or outback down there in Arizona, but I like the 6 months low rent campsites, back to the video

Merry Christmas 🎉

What I was thinking about listening to your video, is I wonder if you would think about talking a little bit about the alternatives to going to Quartzsite. Thank you for sharing information about quartzite it is greatly appreciated.❤

My first experience at Quartzsite was in 1995. I attended the gem show. Quartzsite had two restaurants and two gas stations. It boasted 1 million visitors. Of course now all has changed. Great video. I encourage people to visit in January where they have the swap meet. You can spend hours exploring what the latest gadgets on the market.

I ran into many places that didn’t have anyone licensed to fill propane on a RV.

Hi Carolyn! Great video...Thanks sooo much.👍

Thank you for all the information! I’m a member of Escapees and it’s a great organization. I’m definitely an introvert, though.

Thumbs up! Thank you, lots of info. Yes, would love to see your favorite sights and places there. :)

I was last in Quartzite in the early '90s. It was a zoo then. Can't imagine how crowded it is now. No desire to make it a destination. Would consider wintering further afield if it was convenient for my travels.

Yes more information I plan to go in my car

Ambivert! Same!!! :) Primarily an introvert, but I was a teacher, now a manager, and give presentations. I can be outgoing and friendly...for an amount of time, but then need to retreat and recharge.

Hi Carolyn, I'm hoping to make it to Quartzsite this year. I am currently assisting a very dear friend on Hospice. I will try to get a few days to make the trip. I've heard so much about it that I am very eager for the experience. I hope to run into you there, but if you need to move on I totally understand. A kiss on the nose for your sidekick. Thank you for all the information on the VPN, and Quartzsite.

I received my calendar thanks can’t wait to open it

I look forward to Q every year for the RTRs and to meet people. Last year I got to meet Bob of CheapRV Living, Tristan of SUV RVing and my favorite KZfaqrs, Sadie & Carolyn!

I lived year long in RV campground in Quartsite for 4.5 years. Nice place and people. Then moved my TV to Tucson to live on my daughter’s land next to her house 12 years ago. Still here. I am 80 years old so RVing days are over,

I am an introvert but open up a lot if it's the right group. I found it hard to actually make any connections with anybody. I didn't really find many people or groups of people all that open and welcoming, at least not how it's sometimes portrayed. I was hoping to find more groups who were more open to just inviting people "in" and see how it goes. Not that I wouldn't go again, I will.

I'm a bi-vert too! LOL! Love that terminology!

Hi Carolyn! Hi Sadie!

I’ll be in Quartzsite again this year for a couple of months. Yes, the water is really bad and leaves residue and really dries out my skin and hair. It’s really bad for me. The big tent is fun to see. Lots to buy. We love to ride our side by sides there and explore the trails and scenery. Delicious pizza, beer and great live bands at Silly Al’s. Delicious Mexican food at Taco Mia! I love all the rocks and minerals for sale really cheap! A geologist’s dream . I love it there. We’ve been going there for a few years now. ❤

Going this year for the first time. Rite of passage. ❤

Quartsite 40 year's My neighbor friends Have the COUNTRY FAIR CINNAMON ROLL Stand there..A MUST HAVE!! yummmm😋 C y'all there.

Thanks for sharing never been there

I will be at the RTR 2024 and QuartzFest 2024 at the Road Runner BLM... I have been in Quartzsite 9 times. The best laundry in the USA is called: MODERN LAUNDROMAT 491 North Lake Havasu Ave, Lake Havasu Arizona !!! The laundromat in Quartzsite, on Main Street, has new washing machines and showers..😄😄😄😄

I'm in Q for the first time. As crowded as its going to be, i hope i can get the venders. We are getting rain and wind today. My shower tent fell down from the wind.

You can camp in wildlife refuges, depending on the rules there...KOFA for example. Also Cabeza Prieta.

Super video. We've followed Bob and heard about Quartzside but you filled in alot of blanks. I love the bivert term. That's totally me too. Nice to know it's OK and we aren't just weird. Lol.

Bi-vert love it! Thanks

Thank you for this valuable information for Quartzsite! We're not on the road yet. We've wondered about Quartzsite. Your video was very useful and so organized!

Its sounds crazy! LOL but I'd love to do it at least once! For thr RTR and meet and greets, if nothing else.

Hello Carolyn , finally going to Quartzsite this year after many years of watching you and your travel. Will you have a met and greet this year for us fans that would like to say Hello . Rosemarie

Looking forward to your video about fun things to do and see around Quartzite. I'll be there for the first time this winter. Planning to stay for 2 weeks.

I camped with my trailer in Laughlin, off the Mojave highway…lots of desert, easy in and out with trailers, and you can rent the off road vehicles like Razors as there is a whole group out there who go out at night and ride thru the desert, for that real get away experience. Cheers

Watched this after the Bluetti AC something video.12/20. Great info. I like the nickname "bi-vert" I find myself that also. 🥶🖤🔔👍🏻💓

I'm really glad you coined the term 'bi-vert', cuz that best describes me, too. I can get out, even alone, and freely chat with complete strangers, but too much people time is WAY too exhausting! I gotta have a good deal of alone time.

Can't wait for the 2024 RTR!!!

Great video; looking forward to more information about Quartzite and surrounding areas. Thanks!

Carolyn, you are in rare form today 😂 This video was so much fun. I do plan on getting to Quartzsite eventually. Maybe as you said “a right of passage.” Here’s a question you might answer. With all those people in one place, what is the crime like? When you leave your right to head to the big tent are your belongings safe?

Thank you for sharing

Hating to be someone correcting you, but for the benefit of you and your viewers, some western lands are managed by the U.S. Forest Service. In areas where there is a lot of USFS land we just say "Forest Service." Please, it is not Forestry Service (a too often repeated error.) I hope this helps.---- I've watched and appreciated many of your videos but have seldom left a comment. This is a good time to do it. I hope you and your viewers have a very fine holiday season, whether you are home or out on the road.

“You can find anything you want in Quartzite.” Unless what you want is moisture and greenery…

Hi Kid, The calendar is on its way. Yahoo‼lol, once was enough 😅 abasing to top the hill and see thousands of RV’s in the valley below. Be strong Kate🙏

Hi Carolyn, I got to Quartzsite last year, met up with my brother and his Monaco friends. Lots of fun. But I didn't get there until the end of the Big Show. It's down to the wire to get there for some of the fun activities this year, we'll see. Thanks for all the info about Quartzsite. I saw you and Sadie south of there last spring. "Camper in a Roadtrek with a purple Kayak" Zanobia

Blythe is West of Q

I wish I had gotten a van 5 or 6 years ago, when I saw Bob's Cheap RV Living video. That would have been the comfortable size crowd I could handle.

I love the Bi-vert! That is absolutely me!😂 I went to Ehrenberg more than Quartzsite, but I did attend the RTR in 2018. My 1st year of vanlife. We actually met there, probably Ehrenberg, actually. We basically walked our dogs together, your Capone, and my Unka Hound. I'm sure they're hanging out in doggie heaven. I didn't last for the entire RTR. It was way too peoplee for me! It was a time in my life when I needed to be alone far more than I needed socialization! I highly recommend it to new RVers or vanlifers, nomads. I met amazing humans and learned that I had a tribe any time I wanted or needed one, of like-minded humans. So many amazing places to visit, and boondock! And great weather! # Quartzsite!

Thank you so much for the great info on Quartzsite. I'm going to be a full time rv'r real soon and I will go to Quartzsite and check it all out. Your videos are great and informative Carolyn thank you again so much for all the hard work you put into making these videos. Take care, be safe tell Sadie I said hi. God bless you.

~14min mark you mentioned you lived in Benicia CA for a while.... I graduated from BHS... Class of 1975. It was a fun little town back then!

I think it is mind blowing how many people go there over night it happens and Dollar general gets wiped out of food Im not gonna ever again once was enough 😂😊

Are any of the places you mentioned to camp, NOT dog friendly?

Good info - thank you. As you know, I've been watching for years but (if all goes well) this will be my first in person visit. As a very tiny patron of HOWA, I registered for the WRTR but do not know if I'll stay for the big one. Depends on some stuff at home. I'm really hopeful to meet you and Brian/Kelly from Adventure Van Man and maybe Scott from Static Campervan - don't know if they are going - I watched you first of course. Happy Tuesday.

👍🏻😁 January will be my first full year of bus life. I spent last January in the FL Keys where my late husband and I lived for 20 years. This year I am headed to Quartzite for the first time. A Rite of Passage. 🤷🏼‍♀️😆 I have Skooliepaloosa, WRTR, RTR, & The Big Tent Event on my calendar. Will I go again after this year 🤷🏼‍♀️. But have to do it once at least. I appreciate the info about additional groups, especially the women groups. I have a few friends I’m joining, but a larger community would be nice, don’t want to “coat-tail” anyone. I’m. Bi-Vert also, so a bit of alone time is necessary, but I do feel safer camped somewhat in range of friendlys. (sp?)

Thanks Carolyn, I have been thinking of going to Quartzsite. This was very helpful. I think we have to do it. Thanks, enjoy!

We started RVing at the same time. :) I've always enjoyed your videos. I bought some land so maybe I won't be out here too much longer. I've enjoyed it though. I'm in Quartzsite for my third season. Used to travel more. Slowing down! Thanks for all the good info!!

👍 LIKE!! Thank you for this, Carolyn. I’m going to Tucson with my daughter in a couple weeks and I want to go visit Quartzite. So please share the fun things that you like to do around there in ur next video. I greatly appreciate it❤!!