• Camping Hints - Parks

    Camp Hosting

    This winter the price of gasoline caught up with us and we decided to limit our travel. We had talked about camp hosting and I did some investigating. We signed up on Volunteer.gov, and several state camp hosting pages. For the uninitiated camp hosting is trading volunteer work for a…

  • Camping Hints - Parks

    Quartzsite Housing

    We have been in Quartzsite, Arizona since the middle of October. Quartzsite is a desert community of about three thousand full-time residents. In the winter it balloons to over two hundred thousand as RVs swarm in to stay in the desert. Services are minimal and dust is everywhere. We have…

  • Camping Hints - Places

    KOFA National Wildlife Refuge

    Our travels have been slowed as we hunker down amid the national Covid-19 pandemic. We do find a few places to visit though. KOFA National Wildlife Refuge is south of Quartzsite, about an hour from where we are in Yuma. We went in search of rocks that Kate can paint.…