[Leica] Quartzite AZ

[leica_r8 at hotmail.com (Aram Langhans)]

For those who don't know, Quartzite AZ is normally a sleepy little town of 
just over 3000 on I-10, but once a year it turns into a giant rock show, 
swap meet, RV show and who know what else.  My father-in-law has been going 
there for probably 30 years or more.  The last 10 have seen it dwindle down 
to maybe from maybe close to a million visitors in January to 3/4 million, 
according to the Arizona HW Dept, http://www.quartzsitervshow.com/, but I 
think that at any one day there may be 250,000 wandering around town.  
Amazing.  I wish I had a photo of all the RV's scattered all over many 
square miles of BLM land as you crest the hill coming into town from the 
west.

This year we tagged along with him and my sister-in-law and spend three days 
there.  Here are a few shots I got.

One HUGE tent for the RV show.  So many people on Saturday it was hard to 
even see anything.  The center isle is not so bad, but the sides are 
shoulder to shoulder.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/c2/q/Quartzite-0474.jpg.html

Lots of shopping outside. We wandered for 5 hours or so, three days, and did 
not see it all.  Bought a few things and some nice rocks.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/c2/q/Quartzite-0494.jpg.html

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/c2/q/Quartzite-0439.jpg.html

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/c2/q/Quartzite-0499.jpg.html

Then famous fish dinner at Sweet Darlene's with the unavoidable self 
portrait waiting to get in.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/c2/q/Quartzite-0441.jpg.html

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/c2/q/Quartzite-0445.jpg.html

Dry camping, so my father-in-law is putting up his solar panels.  He is 
still  there and will stay a few weeks.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/c2/q/Quartzite-0436.jpg.html

He likes to camp away from everyone so he does not here their generators

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/c2/q/Quartzite-0540.jpg.html

Even though there was a half moon, the stars put on a pretty good show at 
night.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/c2/q/Quartzite-0521.jpg.html

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/c2/q/Quartzite-0533-Edit.jpg.html

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/c2/q/Quartzite-0535.jpg.html


Comments welcome.  At least one her is with Leica 35-70/4.

Aram






Aram Langhans
(Semi) Retired (retarded?) Science Teacher
& Unemployed photographer
 
"The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself 
would ever have dared dream."   James D. Watson