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Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)

Don Barrett (aka DBs travels) club

Posted: 19 Mar 2014

Taken: 11 Mar 2014

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Quartzsite, AZ (1463)

Quartzsite, AZ (1463)
Quartzsite represents an RV culture that I've always found confounding. It's in the middle of nowhere, yet large numbers of snowbird RV folk come and park there for a few months in the winter. What do they do? How do they keep from going crazy? I don't know...
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 Clint
Clint
My significant other has an uncle with a permanent home in Montana who does the RV snowbird thing. He parks it on a depressing patch of dirt somewhere in the Phoenix metroplex, then spends the summer driving someplace else. Robin's parents (the uncle's sister and her husband) bought one of these things a couple of years ago, but they don't take it out nearly as often. The entire process strikes me as a version of agony people pay hundreds of thousands to embrace.
10 years ago.
 Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)
Don Barrett (aka DBs… club
In the BLM LTVA (long term visitor areas) such as this, there seems to be three basic groups. Two common groups are those who form a new community with other snowbirds, and those who park as far as they can from others and seem to be seeking long-term isolation. I can somewhat understand the former, except the $100K and the cost due to atrocious gas mileage. But the latter seems to be people who go park in some desolate piece of scrub and then sit around in their homes with a generator running AC and watching satellite TV, which I definitely can't understand. The third group that seems to happen often, which isn't in homes like the one in this picture, are older folk who've lost most everything and this is all that is left.
10 years ago.

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