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10 January 2006
Polar Inertia - "a journal of nomadic and popular culture."
Quartzsite has an official population of 3,397 inhabitants (2000 census) . Every winter between October and March, however, hundreds of thousands of campers bring their RVs to Quartzsite. Setting up camp for anywhere for a few days to a few months, these snowbirds temporarily create one of the ten largest cities in the American Southwest.
photo by splunge
photo by TheophileEscargot
photo by Kronos_to_Earth
photo by ethylene
