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Gary.Jones · 06-26-2021, 11:44 PM

After being forced to cancel the Gathering in January 2021 due to COVID-19 problems, I have every intention to host the 2022 Entegra@Quartzsite Gathering this coming January. I will publish a notice up here on iRV2 and I anticipate the registration will go up on the EntegraOwners.com ECOA website sometime in the first half of September.

I really missed seeing all the owners who normally make Quartzsite an annual event and look forward to seeing everyone who attends again. It will be great to welcome the Canadian contingent to Quartzsite once again as the border should remain open. I hope everyone is healthy and unscathed by COVID. I assume almost everyone is probably vaccinated and took the whole problem seriously. I wish you all good health, and see you in Quartzsite !! --

Gary

Tim Fox · 06-27-2021, 06:05 AM

Gary, I’m glad to see you making forward looking plans. It’s been difficult to make any plans with the uncertainty we have been experiencing for over a year now. I’m sure the return of Quartzite will be a welcome event for many.

757driver · 06-27-2021, 11:23 AM

Gary,

Yes indeed it sounds like the land border should be open this fall.

We will be in Quartzsite in 2022 and looking forward to seeing everyone again.

Mwoodofd · 06-27-2021, 02:05 PM

Hoping we can attend - plan to leave the MH in Indio this winter and fly back and forth - hoping to target that week to be there and join the gathering!

Gary.Jones · 06-27-2021, 05:30 PM

Mark and Don

Don. I hope to put you to work as usual. 😂. 👍. It will also be great to see you and Gerri and share a cold one in the process. B

Mark: Indio is just a hop, skip, and a jump to Quartzsite. Have made that trip frequently. Please do try to make it this year.

Gary

Jolar01 · 06-27-2021, 07:45 PM

Making plans if there’s anything we can do to ease the burden on you and Dee please let us know.
Larry and Joneen

GeezerViz · 06-27-2021, 11:56 PM

I'm in! Woo-hoo!

LennyC · 06-28-2021, 06:40 AM

I sent you a private message Gary.

I live in the Phoenix western suburb of El Mirage and would like to pitch in where I can.

We pick up our Entegra Emblem in Salt Lake City next week.

jwprosser · 06-28-2021, 10:30 AM

Gary,
So glad to see this post!!! Pam & I have had this on the calendar since last year. My offer to help still stands and We would love to help with the rally!

Thanks,
JP

757driver · 06-28-2021, 12:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Gary.Jones

Mark and Don

Don. I hope to put you to work as usual. 😂. 👍. It will also be great to see you and Gerri and share a cold one in the process. B

Mark: Indio is just a hop, skip, and a jump to Quartzsite. Have made that trip frequently. Please do try to make it this year.

Gary

Gary,

That’s not work…….it’s just plain fun!!! Looking forward to it.

Gary.Jones · 06-28-2021, 10:50 PM

I've had several offers to help and that is much appreciated and potentially needed. We will see who of the old hands that have been doing this with me now for ~ 7 years and we will see who is back in the saddle in 2022. I have an advance team who helps lay out where coaches are positioned in the desert, and if we have the same support companies in Quartzsite as we had pre-pandemic, we have the paradigm laid out pretty well over time.

For those who have not attended yet, this is not an AIM-type rally with tons of entertainment and tours and planned catered meals. Quartzsite is a very different thing which I call a "Gathering". Its typically 50 to 70 coaches boondocking in the desert together with talks, a few planned meals, and amazingly good "pot-lucks" (I was definitely NOT a believer of "pot-lucks" until we had 5 of them over several years and I now have become a "believer" and I have learned that they are probably better than lots of catered meals), lots of owner interaction, display coaches, and just great owners who enjoy bonfires, talk, and nights in the Arizona desert.... Not for everyone, but if you are the right "type" ....like no other gathering.

Gary and Dee

philnail · 06-29-2021, 06:59 AM

Gary

We will be in Quartzsite October thru March 1st and will come as always being part of the group. If you need help I will be there and happy to help mark off the area. I stay pretty close to where the group parked 2 years ago but not close enough to attract other RV’s to the area. I am also happy to assist any way I can so please let me know. Just drop me an email or call.

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Gary.Jones · 06-29-2021, 08:01 AM

Phil

Good to hear from you, and you must have enjoyed your stay last year. I
Absolutely LOVE that first picture .... what an impressive sight!

Our late summer trip will take us right past you but maybe not overlapping as nine high-school buddies who have remained close friends and still living are going to get together along with all of their wives for a week in South Lake Tahoe, for a reunion of the good-buddies and then back to the Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque before home briefly for 2 months before we head out west again for Quartzsite and beyond.

Drive safely buddy

Gary

philnail · 06-29-2021, 10:47 AM

Gary

We are looking forward seeing you in Quartzsite in January. We absolutely love it there and have met many good people who come there every year for the winter.

When you get there I will take you for a ride on the trails. You would love it

See you soon my friend

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