Why Does Quartzsite Get a Bad Rap?! | VAN LIFE
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- Why does Quartzsite, AZ get such a bad rap? You either love it, or hate it!
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Quartzsite reminds me of the little town that I was raised in actually it was the smaller town than quartzsite when I was there as a kid I think my town only had like 1300 people in it. We had a small grocery store in town and a little corner store uptown but that was it you had to go out of town if you wanted anything else
You are so wise beyond your years Amanda and so great to listen to. I am a 71 year old father and grandfather and just love listening to you. Merry Christmas and happy camping in the new year.
Awww thank you! Merry Christmas!
An open mind is helpful in any situation
maybe they got it confused with Slab City? I know at first I had the 2 confused.
I like your new glasses, they look great on you. Merry Christmas Amanda
Thanks so much!
Spot on! There are problem people everywhere, just be aware and Live on and enjoy Life!
Thanks for another great video. I'm sure you're likely to meet all kinds of people in Quartzsite, just like everywhere else. I've never enjoyed or believed what I call the "doomsday" videos. It's what you make of it no matter where you are.😊
I was at Quartzsite last January and it was a great experience. I met a lot of nice people, the town was actually better than I expected (a few more stores, etc), and it really isn't that big of a deal to drive a bit for bigger stores. However, it isn't Disneyland, you are living in the desert using a bucket or pit toilet and you have to be careful with water. I would definitely go again.
Open-minded dog lover here. I hope to share a fire with you sometime, Amanda. 😊 Merry Christmas to you, Mattie & Wynston! ❤
Namasté & Ho’Oponopono everything 🕊️❤️
Hello, Amanda, nice to see you here! Good video! I am so happy to see you addressing this issue. Only having been able to get there once I really fell in love with it! I met AWESOME people and had a great time! You made excellent points, including about arming yourself and developing a group of camp friends. Have a beautiful and blessed New Year, and have safe travels. 🙏 LUCRETIA
So many people out in the world trying to ruin everyone’s fun in the name of “I’m just looking out for you” or “I’m just trying to help” no, that’s a lie, stop trying to pretty up the fact that you’re a dream stealing fun pooper!
Merry Christmas, be happy, if you can’t, at least let other people be happy! 🎄🤶 🎅 ✨
Merry almost Christmas 🎄 ✨️ young lady. I hope you have an awesome one. I'll see ya when you get back here.😀💙👍
I love you and how ur not affected by mean, grumpy old men! 😅 My 9 yr old daughter loves your style!
You are such a nice young lady. I really enjoy your videos. Merry Christmas🎄
Love the new glasses! Safe travels and have a Merry Christmas!! Catch you in January!
Thanks friend! 🎄
I would love to try the $180.00 pass for a season. It covers such a large area with trash, restrooms, dump & water. Driving to larger towns for supplies should be no problem. The use of a generator doesn’t bother me. It would be bette then the hassle of big city.
LOVE this video!!!! Thing’s happen everywhere! I loved my week at La Pisa South this past January. I can’t wait to go back!! 😊❤️
You, young lady, know who you are. And that's a blessing.
Merry Christmas Amanda
Merry Christmas Alan! 🥰🎅
Love the new glasses!! Merry Christmas 🎄☃️🎁 And it does not matter where you are. Drugs are everywhere. They don’t discriminate against rich or poor, gender or race. They are everywhere. Just say no.
Absolutely!
Hey there. I love it down here. Just made it in this year a few days ago. We have a dog too! So cool. Hope to run into you out here! We drove down from Wisconsin. Had to get away from the cold winter.
I like how you are analyzing the Quartzsite culture Amanda! I want to suggest that the person who wrote about the town and settlement being a drug den is projecting. Everyone projects up to a point and it's important to know when we as individuals project our feelings on others.
I go to quartzsite often,just to get away from OC….I’ve never had an encounter with drug culture ….just the beggars at loves look a bit scetchy in January……👀🇺🇸🕊
Merry Christmas Amanda, Winston and Mattie
Like attracts like. Quartzite is going to be what the visiting person brings to their visit there. Have a wonderful holiday Amanda!
Great advice as always ~ Your outlook on things is so great and positive 😊
Agree with your thoughts so much ~ it’s really nice that you share these things with people ~
AND ~ very nice glasses 👓
Wishing you and Wynston a
Very Merry Christmas 🎄
Thank you Amanda for this very honest & informative video. I have Quartzite on my mind for my next van travelling adventure.❤Happy you are part of that community, older people there must have a lot of respect for you.
Thank you for this video. My first time watching and im greatfull you gave a both sides of it. And real both sides. You didnt try to hide some of it. It was real talk. Not to age my self lol but your about my grandkids age. And i was considering going camper life out that way. Im now thinking id rather be where i am. It was a real toss up tween stayn rest my days here or going out in the camper life again. Keep enjoying life. You get my age it feels like you have blinked and its time to go.
I'm viewing this the day after Christmas. I hope your and Wynston had a great one.
Good topic Amanda. Wishing you and Wynston a Merry Christmas 🎄
Nice new glasses happy Holidaze 🎉
Enjoyed again
I think I'd be more concerned about a guy that beat the crap out of someone and broke his jaw! wow...not sure that was a good move. 🤷 thanks for the comments!
As you mentioned there are all sorts of ppl EVERYWHERE! If at any time campers who are In Quartzite (or anywhere for that matter) and feel uncomfortable they can just simply leave. I certainly wouldn’t want to stay if I’m not enjoying the atmosphere/the crowd. Anyway, Amanda I’m wishing you, Wynston and your family a very Merry Christmas.
Love your glasses Amanda. Have a Merry Christmas
We've heard that La Posa North LTVA was full of drugs. Whatever...rumors. We love Quartzsite and camping at the LTVAs. Merry Christmas eve eve!! 🎄🎁
great video!.. just got back in november from 1st time at quartzite and loved it. just always be cautious and all is good. can't wait to return in 2024.
That's great!
Hello. Amanda, Yes no matter where we go… there’s Good and Bad everywhere.
I would like to travel across the country… but I’d like some what of a caravan/convoy. Hope to see you guys late January/February…🎁❣️🎄🌵✨❄️Season’s Greetings
Merry Christmas to you both
Merry Christmas Amanda🎄
So true! Cute glasses. 👓
Great video. See you next month.
Nice assessment. Between the location (on a major thoroughfare), and the sheer number of people who descend on the town in the winter, you’re bound to get some people who aren’t your style. But they do tend to cluster in groups and locations. As Bob Wells says, if you find you don’t like your neighbors, just turn the key and drive to a different spot where the people are more to your liking.
I boondocked in Quartzite in the 1970s and 1980s and it was so wonderful, nice clean people, big rigs, wonderful community. Now I pop over now and then and it's scary there with the dirty, drugged out campers. Don't forget it's close to Mexico, too and a great place for drug runners to make a safe stop. I wonder how many RVers are missing in the desert so others can hide or drive off in their rig.
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Great video Amanda. I want you to known that I started following your channel because I find your videos fun and informative, I didn't even notice your piercings until much later.
Merry Christmas to you and Wynston,
Great video. Exactly you will find that Anywhere!
Excellent analysis! Happy Christmas! 🎄🚐✨✨
Merry Christmas 🎄
👩🦼🚍🐾❤️👍🏻🇺🇸🌵
As long as they don’t bother anybody, they can do anything they like. 😊
I've never heard anyone mention drugs in regard to Quartzite
Me either but, I've only been watching those that really enjoy going and being in Quartzsite. *shrug I am going this year and am so looking forward to meeting a plethora of different people.
Hi Amanda, drugs are everywhere. Low life are everywhere
Negative people are everywhere
When you have that many people gathering you get all kinds of people.
The good , the bad and the ugly.
You are a good judge of character. Wynston will look out for you.
Common sense and courtesy. That’s what we need more of
Your new glasses are great on you
@@maryfry920 Agree!!
First time ever, Newbee headed to Quartsite in 2 weeks, I think my tribe might be there….
Was there a few months ago i was not in the correct mind and new to vanlife spent a month there now im in palm beach florida but im prob gonna go to utah eventually cuz no governent control there 🤙🏻
Good morning how are you doing? I hope you are doing fine. That was a fantastic video. You explained everything perfect and you got everything right I don’t care where you go in the United States. You’re gonna find the good in the bed but I love your video you explain everything. Well, this is Steve, I hope to meet up with you sometime and sit down and have some coffee until then be safe
Merry Christmas to you.
I've been doing the full time vanlife thing for five years now. You are correct. RVing takes up the whole socio economic spectrum. From very wealthy to people who are a short step away from sleeping under a bridge. It is just life I guess. Aside from weed have I never seen people use harder drugs but I'm sure it is out there. Also during the winter the RV community descends on southern AZ ,so we are kind of corralled into a fairly small space and then socio issues can be a bit more "compressed". For the most part these are great people.
Jerry Christmas Amanda and your new glasses look great on you
Merry Christmas
Slab city has more open drug use. All I have seen is people who smoke cannabis. And cannabis is legal in this state. Plus cannabis will not kill you. You might eat too much and sleep for long time. But it won’t kill you.
Your 3 C’s are correct. We had a person murdered, in our thousand trails, campground. And that’s a gated community. There’s bad people everywhere. But there are also very good people everywhere. We just started following you. Thank you for your content.🎉
For sure, I don't consider cannabis a drug. 🥰
Beautiful, much love from 🇰🇪 kenya.
Honey, bad things can happen anywhere.
Maybe the deep inter city or out in the middle of nowhere isnmost dangerous. Evil is everywhere. Be safe, be vigilant, be prepared.
The majority are always everywhere, it’s just the percentages and circumstances that are present.
The most trusting of others are most victimized.
Sheep, sheepdogs, & wolves are present everywhere.
From both experience and my siblings/relatives that are Truckers: all major trucking routes and many secondary routes have all the "Ills" drug and human trafficking available. Common knowledge, but that shouldn't be a singular criticism to downplay any region as a not so great place. Especially when an area is primarily a transient community.
This year was my first year visiting Quartzsite. I was just getting a feel for the place, learning how to get a pass, where things were at, what I need to bring, so I only stayed a couple of weeks. Anyways I was in La Posa South and one night around 11pm some guy walks in my campsite asking if I have any drugs or meth to sell him lol. So must have been the same guy before he got his jaw relocation. Other than that it was pretty chill and I will probably head back early Jan or try again next year.
Yeah, stuff like that seems to happen more often at the LTVAs because there are more people concentrated in a space.
I don't think of QZ as a drug den. Like everything in life, it's the company that you choose to keep. I'm from CA. No drugs here. Just saying ❤
People who go there should know what to expect, no illusions.
Your aqua glasses broke? Oh no!!! Merry Christmas and a blessed New Year.
My skinny frame blue/gray ones broke. 🥺
I’d imagine you can find anything in this large a group of people, if you are looking for it. I’ve never had a negative experience.
I live in a small town in TN. I work in a hospital that has a couple of floors that consist of the mentally ill. The ER is very busy and it’s true drugs are everywhere. So many people come in on drugs and also overdosed. A lot of times the mentally ill are on drugs. And it’s hard stuff too. The homeless that come are often on drugs. It’s everywhere.
Get a bad vibe? Move to another spot🙈🙉🙊
Watch out for the VD epidemic there!!!
I've been looking for acid for 2 yrs... so if anyone knows anything lemme know 😊...on another note slab city is the drug den
Go to Skooliepalooza. Plenty there. 🤣
@@AdventuringWithAmanda do u have that number 😂
😂😂🤣
couldn't agree more
I’ve never witnessed drug activity there. There are definitely different social economic circles in which one can mingle in. One will need to seek out which one is the most comfortable to socialize in. Or try to do their best to remain neutral. Conversations around campfires can range from the lack of section 8 housing to the cons of living on a golf course in Florida.
And those conversations can be heard around the exact same campfire where you've all gathered as one ♥
I like Quartzite and I think that folks that moan and whine about it are the lazy ones that can't or won't figure it out.
It's fine. I NEVER go there in peak season though.
Great information. I am new to van/truck camping. I will be traveling to Quartsite in February. Where do you recommend I stay for the first time?
There are so many options. You can't go wrong with any location, really.
Question do you always have enough solar power, to keep things frozen and cool in frig a freezer. do you have a generator ??
Yes I always have enough solar. I don't have a generator.
Yes good and bad people everywhere you go.
Time, place, and circumstances...
I am a native Californian and have traveled to many other states and I can tell you drugs are everywhere. To suggest there are drugs in Q because of close proximity to California is ridiculous. I am a big fan of Quartzsite mostly because I can camp alone with my dogs. There is more to Q than “the scene.”😊
Agree 👍
"Because it goes into California "? I have say that's an unfounded assumption about I10 and California!
One step above slab city
Lock and Load
Heading down in a few days for my sixth year of four months at Q, in the LTVA-LPS. If you stay on BLM land, you have to buy a permit, and I think this keeps most of the poor transients out. I've never encountered druggies there. Heck, everyone seems to go to bed at dusk, sober and happy. If you go into town - right there, as you say, along the freeway - you'll see a few poor wanderers nodding off. But not many more than I see in Minnesota.
BLM land does NOT require a paid permit.
These days every place is a drug den if you look for it. Even if I see it I mostly think it's not my business. That being said, it's possible there might be more sex offenders in the community because it is very difficult for them to get housing. If your hackles go up when meeting someone pay attention to that. There are people using trends in popular culture that are being used by some bad people to illicit the sympathy response. Some of those people are posers. It's still good to help people just don't be a fixer.
Interesting how to me a native CA and coastie, the desert has a reputation for having a lot of drugs, esp. meth. Yet, it sounds like you think CA does, & esp the coast, lol 🤣. I will say MJ is pop on coast, but inland & east has the meth. 😂
Yes I have personally seen a ton of drug use in the LA and San Diego areas.
SLAB CITY ➡️▶️▶️➡️
I’ve heard nothing but bad things. Drugs, animal attacks, political afflictions, I don’t agree with, domestic violence. 🤷🏽♀️
That sucks.
Sounds like you are blaming California….. :(
I'm not, though.
That's exactly what it sounded like to me too :/
I actually had to replay that section Because it does come across like California is being blamed . "Because it goes into California " " and only 4 hours away from the coast ". Okay ? I don't see why that's relevant exactly. Arizona has plenty of their own drug issues , and doesn't New Mexico too , ?? Issues are like that everywhere in every state , various cities 🤷🏻♀️🤷♂️ Just saying .
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No thank u
When ever you are in a place where there are that many people you are going to have a lot of different cultures. Now I am not a druggie but I find the drug culture very interesting. But I really don't want to be around people that are that interesting all that much if you know what I mean. Love your videos. Keep on keeping on.