28/01: Exploring
Category: General
Posted by: The Agnew Family
Today we decided to check out a few more items from the "things to see around Quartzsite book.
The front building is a cabin and the back building is the workshop .... the workshop probably had at least twice the floor space of the cabin.
If you look carefully at the two buildings you can see a difference in the construction. The corners, base, window and door edges are all done in white quartz. Sparkles away when the sun hits it.
After a little geocaching in the area of the cabin, we drove toward a second cabin. The instructions were interesting .... get on the highway and drive west, between mileage marker 11 and 10 watch for a turnoff just past the cut in the rock .... as the traffic speed is 70mph don't slow down and create an accident. Happily, we found a gap in the traffic so we could slow down and pull off. The road was bumpy and went through a wash and continued to bump as it started uphill. Rereading the instructions indicated that we still had quite a way to go and given the deteriorating road conditions we turned back. A few photos of a falling down cabin wasn't worth the risk of damaging the truck.
Back to the highway driving west. Only 10 miles to Blyth, California so that was our next stop. Blyth is bigger than Quartzsite but no Walmart and no Dairy Queen.
The front building is a cabin and the back building is the workshop .... the workshop probably had at least twice the floor space of the cabin.
If you look carefully at the two buildings you can see a difference in the construction. The corners, base, window and door edges are all done in white quartz. Sparkles away when the sun hits it.
After a little geocaching in the area of the cabin, we drove toward a second cabin. The instructions were interesting .... get on the highway and drive west, between mileage marker 11 and 10 watch for a turnoff just past the cut in the rock .... as the traffic speed is 70mph don't slow down and create an accident. Happily, we found a gap in the traffic so we could slow down and pull off. The road was bumpy and went through a wash and continued to bump as it started uphill. Rereading the instructions indicated that we still had quite a way to go and given the deteriorating road conditions we turned back. A few photos of a falling down cabin wasn't worth the risk of damaging the truck.
Back to the highway driving west. Only 10 miles to Blyth, California so that was our next stop. Blyth is bigger than Quartzsite but no Walmart and no Dairy Queen.