2/03/08
Quartzite is an interesting town that is hard to describe. It only has about 1900 actual residents, but has many thousand temporary visitors in the winter months. The desert is scattered with "towns" of RVs, ranging from old beat up tag alongs to million dollar coaches.
There are tents in the middle of the town, filled with vendors selling everything from gems and jewlery, to RV supplies, to silly TV sales type gadgets.
We stopped at the famous bookstore in town and met "Paul", the owner. Paul is unique in how he dresses...or doesn't dress, as the case may be. He goes basically naked, wearing just a small colored bag sorta thingie in front. I guess it's a thong of sorts. George and Rachel brought me in just to get my reaction, and they weren't dissapointed. Oh yeah, he wears indian jewelry, too. hahaha.
The classic car show was really good, and had some unique vehicles. One was a Corvette concept car that was a wagon! (1954, I think)
There was a completely hand built dwarf Chevy...you can see its size because I am standing beside it.
There was also a gorgeous chameleon purple/green painted 69 Camaro and lots more interesting stuff. The Camaro was for sale for 55,000 but I couldn't convince Paul to buy it for me. I don't know why not.... :)
There are tiny dogs everywhere. These two little Chihuahuas were owned by one of the vendors, cuddled up in their tent.
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