Established at a two roads junction, sleepy town of Quartzsite, Arizona, is booming on winter as ten of thousands of snowbird's trucks settle in with various motorhomes. Sunny days and killing time ahead. January-February 2008.
Aerial view of snowbird's motorhomes vehicles parked in Quartzsite, Arizona. 19 January 2008.
Trailer home in Quartzsite. 25 January 2008.
Quartzsite, 27 January 2008.
Sunbathing on artificial turf in one of the 77 RV parks in Quartzsite. Managing boredom is the main occupation for the retirees spending winter season, the so called snowbirds, by a small town in the desert. 20 January 2008.
Aerial view of motorhomes parked in Quartzsite, Arizona. 19 January 2008.
Harmonica player at a laundromat.
January 2008.
© Etienne de Malglaive
A elderly man watches road traffic in Quartzsite.
21 January 2008.
Water tanks in Quartzsite. 21 January 2008.
As Quartzsite offers no shopping mall, no movies or bowling alleys and limited outdoor activities, the Bingo Night is a full house event. Some Snowbirds prefer to settle southward to Yuma, a larger town bordering Mexico with more distractions.
24 January 2008.
Snowbirds participate at a horseshoe pitching contest in Quartzsite. 26 January 2008.
Hills near Quartzsite. 29 January 2008.
Local celebrity, bookshop owner Paul Winner in his regular no clothes attire. On a breezy day, he will concede to wear no more than a sweater. His cavernous Oasis Bookstore, sells second hand books, including a French selection for Canadian visitors from Quebec. 22 January 2008.
Restaurant in Quartzsite, 22 January 2008.
Watching TV with snacks at reach.
27 January 2008.
Decorative lightings inside an high end RV park in Quartzsite.
27 January 2008.
Waiting at a Quartzsite laundromat. 05 February 2008.
George Medich, 66, former rail mechanic from Nebraska, digs for gold on his small claim he rented at a Quartzsite prospectors club. A local say states that if you find even a very little gold nugget, you will keep digging for ten more years. 31 January 2008.
Aerial view of motorhomes parked outside Quartzsite, Arizona. 19 January 2008.
Retired trucker from Minesota Bob Sojourner, 65, wanders from parking to another parking lot in his old crumbling bus where he lives. 05 January 2008.
Retired trucker from Minesota Bob Sojourner, 65, wanders from parking to another parking lot in his old crumbling bus where he lives. 05 January 2008.
Baby boomers snowbirds gathered their motor homes at a camp they called Boomerville on public BLM land, on the outskirts of Quartzsite.
30 January 2008.
Baby boomers snowbirds gathered their motor homes at a camp they called Boomerville on public BLM land, on the outskirts of Quartzsite. 31 January 2008.
Baby boomers snowbirds gathered their motor homes at a camp they called Boomville on public BLM land, on the outskirts of Quartzsite. There his almost no leisure occupations available in Quartzsite. Not even a movie theatre. Killing time is what's left to do. Lauren Webster learns to fly a remote controlled helicopter. 01 February 2008.
Baby boomers snowbirds gathered their motor homes at a camp they called Boomville on public BLM land, on the outskirts of Quartzsite. 04 February 2008.
Inside Cactus Curlers beauty salon, Quartzsite. 05 February 2008.