The hiking portion of our trip has ended, at least for now, as we head to Quartzsite for a couple of nights. Ed, Zaph and I were in Quartzsite five years ago --- I think we're a week to ten days earlier. It hasn't changed much. Quartzsite is still a small town at the crossroads of two highways; the north/south highway from Las Vegas to Yuma and the east/west highway from Phoenix to Las Angeles with lots of RV parks, lots of flea market space, and lots of BLM land. As it was five years ago, the main winter crowd has not arrived. The RV parks are still half empty, the flea markets are open but still have room for lots of vendors and the BLM land has room for a lot more RVs. We stopped at a Rock Mart today and boy did they have a lot of rocks. If only I knew how to cut and polish the rocks and then have the imagination of what to do with them.