A Quick Displacement and Magic Circle Rock Art

Last night, there was some kind of a band or at least a bunch of high power sound equipment playing crappy music. I don't know if it was some kind of public event, but I was surprised since it's in the middle of BLM land. 

Regardless, my sound canceling headphones were used and all was fine. However today after lunch, I decided to do a quick displacement further away from the noise source whatever it was. 

In the late afternoon, I rode Yagi to the nearby BLM area Known as the Magic Circle.  Perusing satellite/posted imagery shown by Google had drawn my attention to some rock art in this area. 

The area in question, is also a BLM sanctioned clothing optional camping area.

As I rode to the rock art, stopping frequently to consult Google maps since there was no routing information, I eventually found the rock art sites. 

Yes, there were people enjoying the clothing optional status of the place, they would wave as I rode by so it was all good. 

Sadly, the first site's rock art had been destroyed to the point the below formations were not recognizable. Some idiot had actually driven their vehicle through it.  My guess is some fool that couldn't plan his way out of a paper bag had arrived in the dark and destroyed the rock art while parking is rig.

Fortunately, the next side was pretty intact:

Further on from the above site, I'd seen a Ying and Yang symbol:

Finally, there was another rock art site.  Not as cool or artsy as the first two sites.

The circle of rocks was labeled as the Magic Circle, here's the various items within the circle:

Compass Rose

A couple more I didn't include the first time:

As the sun was setting, I made it back to camp for a cloudless sky sunset pictures:

Hanging out near Quartzite, AZ

Sunday, November 2

The accumulator issue remains only temporarily resolved.

As I mentioned previously, zip ties are presently holding the accumulator in place:

I'm debating whether to reinforce the zip ties with metal strapping onto which the accumulator mounting holes would be secured.  I'd leave the zip ties securing the tubing and associated outlets.

Monday, November 3

Sunrise in Quartzite:

I drove into nearby town of Quartzite for wider wall anchors and sundry items.  When I returned, I spent the rest of the morning affixing the accumulator back onto the back wall of the RV. I wasn't satisfied with the tightness of the anchors, they were the largest or rather the widest ones in the hardware store, so I added a metal strap to further support the accumulator went on rough roads.

I am debating whether to a fix some zip ties to the metal strip to help support the actual tubing connectors as well. 

It was quite warm this morning, no breeze, and I worked up a bit of a sweat doing this chore. I went into recovery mode the rest of the day. 

It got quite warm today, low 90s.  It was bearable in the shade outside the VRRV, inside not so much until the late afternoon.

Monday's sunset:

Now Boondocking near Quartzite, AZ

After leaving the Pierce Ferry area and it's the light fully solitary camping conditions: I spend a couple of days in midview hanging out with Chris and Lori of Blazeourway.

We just visited, no riding and some binging of a show on Prime video.

Photo courtesy of Lori Z.

While repositioning the RV on their front yard in order to level it, water started pouring out of the rear end of the RV. Damn it. 

Turned out to be a rather small issue, the tubing going from the accumulator to the tubing that feeds the water heater had come off! 

Chris Z. got the tubing back in place and we thought we were good to go. 

Meadview Sunset

Saturday, November 1

I left midview in the late morning, and headed towards Kingman to get propane and to fill up with gas on the way to Quartzite, Arizona.

As I got out of the RV while waiting for the propane guy, I saw water once again pouring out the back of the RV!  Dammit.  Again, the tubing had come off the connector that fed the water heater.  This time though it was because the accumulator itself had come off its wall anchors and had dragged it loose! 

Doing some light cussing, I shut off the water pump and got back on the road intending to fix the connections later while camping in Quartzite.

Once I got camp set up and things at cool down a little bit from a high of 91°; I found that I didn't have the right anchors to properly mount the accumulator back on the back wall of the cabinet. So I used to set up zip ties to hold it in place after I reconnected the tubing and verified all was a well again in terms of water flow with the pump on. 

I'll be going into the town of Quartzite tomorrow, to find the correct mounting hardware for a more permanent solution.  Luckily, it's hot and dry so hopefully there will be no long-term or permanent damage to the floor of the RV.

Boondocking at Pearce Ferry near Meadview, AZ

 It's been a pretty relaxing few days here at the Pearce Ferry dispersed camping area   it used to be a primitive campground back in the day but the water levels of Lake Mead have receeded over the decades, leaving it high and dry.

I pretty much had the place to myself except for another camper or two that didn't stay long and stayed away from my site so all good.

Here's some pictures around the nearby boat ramp used to take boats out of the river after they have traverse what I assume is the Grand Canyon or something near it.

Can you spot Uma?

A short drive to South Cove area of the Lake Mead Recreation Area to check out water levels.  Not much there except fisherman and day use facilities.

Some Golden Hour views around my campsite.

Views from the block house window opening:

Sunset lighting is quite important for this area, the mountains are quite plain in the daylight hours with the flat sunlight.