We left Yuma a few days before the end of March and headed up to Quartzsite, Arizona. It is a short 90 mile drive just enough for a shakedown cruise. Our rig was all clean and shiny from the RV wash service. It is pretty reasonable to have a rig washed in Yuma and because the tap water is so full of minerals and salt if you wash it yourself you have to wipe it off as fast as you wash it. Much easier to "pay the guy" who uses reverse osmosis water to do the washing and rinsing. We also added some cleaner to the holding tanks with some water and let it slosh around on the drive to Quartzsite. This way it helps loosen crud that may have built up in the tanks from sitting so long. Our rig is now twelve years old so we need to give it more tender loving care.
When we got to Quartzsite we were excited to get out to the gold claims. The gold mining club we belong to in Quartzsite added a large new claim so we were anxious to give it a try. We thought we found a good place to dig in the photo with Jim and his shovel. He came back out quickly when he realized it was full of nasty cactus needles. They were in his shoes and he had gotten some on his gloves. When we checked closer there was a dead cactus and all of the arms were on the ground blowing around filling the gully up with needles. So we moved to an area that has piles of dirt that we think are from the nearby gold mine. It might be dirt they wanted out of the way to get down to the gold veins or it could be tailings that they had run through their equipment. We have been running this dirt and finding a little bit of gold so we will probably keep at it.
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