It was a great RV show this year with very good attendance. While there were several empty vendor spaces both inside and outside the Big Tent, the crowds still came and were perhaps larger than last year. Even lots of doggies attended and could be seen being pushed around in carriages or pulled in wagons. The desert is well-covered with RVs including many rentals from Cruise America. I wonder if the low prices on gas made a difference… While there were plenty of solar and LED vendors along with the many miscellaneous RV parts and general store type vendors, there were some new product vendors too. A new kind of chip bag clip was available in several booths as well as silicone pot or bowl covers. Many workamper employers were there so if workamping is in your future, you should consider coming to the RV show next year in Quartzsite. Progressive had an excellent booth outside where you could win several prizes and get your picture taken with Flo. They had a spinning prize wheel and fun golf game. They were also giving out very nice thermos’ in leather covers if you signed up at a website.
The food was quite good. If you knew where to look at Panorama and Rice Ranch, $1 hamburgers and tacos were available after 3 pm. The BBQ smelled wonderful. Ice cream was the most popular as always. Over at the Main Event you could get delicious tri-tip sandwiches, my family’s favorite.
The RV show parking in the wash just past the Big Tent was a little worse this year I hear. The sand grabbed onto several cars and kept tow truck operators happy. An RV got stuck too. I have been watching a geocache very cleverly hidden at the wash parking lot and see it is very popular. It is getting found numerous times a day by my fellow geocachers. If any of you are Munzee people, there are lots of Munzees in Quartzsite now and the Big Tent area is a virtual Munzee.
Rice Ranch didn’t have much there but a visit to Gambler’s RV Supply at Rice Ranch is always necessary and one of the best LED vendors had his booth there again. The junk guy was there as usual and had lots of great stuff to buy including several gas motor bicycles. Another vendor there was selling lots of regular bicycles. The Too Crazy Ladies booth moved over there to the corner of 95 and Kuehn this year.
Tyson Wells was pretty full with vendors and customers. Many of the food vendors there ran out of food too soon due to the high attendance. Their most popular product may have been the tissue hot air balloons. They were about 3 feet tall and powered by a waxy cardboard engine you light to heat the air inside and make them rise. Every night the sky was filled with them until the vendors ran out of those. They fly very high until the engine runs out then they fall to earth somewhere. I hope they are biodegradable.
The Main Event is nothing like it was in previous years but does still have several of the usual vendors. It didn’t take long for shoppers to look around there this year but the tri-tip sandwiches definitely attracted a lot of hungry people. It also attracted a car with antlers. LOL
My family was there along with some friends. They go every year, a tradition started by my parents. Here’s some family fun you missed.
As the sun sets on the Big Tent for 2015, we say aloha to Quartzsite and y’all come back now, y’hear.
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