I went down to Quartzsite after BBTB this year.  The outback is not
far from the tar roads down there, not far at all ...

IMO you need to be ready for desert travel if you're going to do that
kind of tripping.

Next year (2012) BBTB is 13-15 Jan and the Quartzsite RV show starts
the next weekend (21 Jan)... and if your really into planning Fat
Tues in New Orleans is Feb 21st, less than a month after the RV show ends.

Rob
becida@comcast.net

  At  3/26/2011 02:47 PM, Dave Mcneely wrote:
>Sorry for the 2nd post.  I meant to point out that Quartzite is on
>Interstate 10, not exactly the outback.  mcneely
>
>---- george jannini <georgejoann@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> > >> You can only stay at campground in that world. <<
> >
> >   You have evidently never visited Quartzsite, Arizona, Grasshopper.
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartzsite,_Arizona#Tourism
> >
> >   More desert than you can shake a stick at, and even "town" has damn
> > few power sites, hydrants, or sewer hookups, yet the place is overrun
> > with OFs between November and April.
> >
> >    I know people with 30+ foot RVs who can boondock for at least 10
> > days before needing to dump and get water, whilst our Porta-Potti
> > cries "uncle" after only 4.
> >
> > Geo/ATL
>
>--
>David McNeely