Gas at Desert Center [Archive]

Advantage Adam

07-31-2003, 04:28 PM

their is a station right when you get off the highway, howver the gas is at lest a $1 more than normal. Your best bet is to gas up @ chiraco summit.

FletchMonster

07-31-2003, 04:30 PM

Thanks. Didn't know there was gas there either.

boatnam2

07-31-2003, 05:04 PM

your best bet is to stop at luckys at the bottom of chiraco summit across from spot 29 casino.its cheaper a lot cheaper usally if you run deisel which i do so i always stop on the way down and the way back.desert center has nice bathrooms stop and enjoy the free desert hospitality.

Boatcop

07-31-2003, 06:16 PM

desert center has nice bathrooms eek! What the fu@% have you been smoking?

Laveyman

07-31-2003, 06:37 PM

boatnam2:
desert center has nice bathrooms WTF!!! Those are bar none the friggin nastiest bathrooms I have ever seen in my entire life. I had to piss like a Clydesdale last time we went through there. I walked in the men's room and nearly puked from the odor. When I got to the terlet to offload, I opted to hold it for a cactus. I am 100% positive that there is some type of bacteria in those nasty crappers that can swim up stream while you're pissin and give you an infection that'll scare the shit outta any antibiotics known to man.

C-2

07-31-2003, 07:10 PM

boatnam2:
your best bet is to stop at luckys at the bottom of chiraco summit across from spot 29 casino.its cheaper a lot cheaper usally if you run deisel which i do so i always stop on the way down and the way back.desert center has nice bathrooms stop and enjoy the free desert hospitality. He beat me to the punch. I was gonna suggest the same thing. They also have a really nice coffee bar for the wifey. Enjoy!
eek! eek! eek!

Beautiful Noise

07-31-2003, 07:23 PM

Make sure you take your own Personal Fly Strip :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
Steve

Rexone

07-31-2003, 07:24 PM

only bathrooms I've seen that were worse were the old ones at Bluewater on the beach, (pre casino days)...

boatnam2

07-31-2003, 07:34 PM

come on bc,you dont even need ass gasket you just use the flys as a gasket.

Mod VP

07-31-2003, 07:40 PM

Rexone:
only bathrooms I've seen that were worse were the old ones at Bluewater on the beach, (pre casino days)... Yeah but it was free,and never a wait at the "ramp" wink to launch,remember that?

Beautiful Noise

07-31-2003, 07:42 PM

Rexone:
only bathrooms I've seen that were worse were the old ones at Bluewater on the beach, (pre casino days)... So that's what you called those :rolleyes: I just went and stood next to the Double Decker Cabana's :D
Steve

1stepcloser

08-01-2003, 07:18 AM

boatnam2:
.desert center has nice bathrooms stop and enjoy the free desert hospitality. ROTFLMAO!!!
You have a great sense of humor!!
Yes, indeed, stop and relieve yourself at Desert Center.
Particularly great for the lady, and the kids really appreciate the fresh scent as well...
ROTFLMAO!!

uvindex

08-01-2003, 07:47 AM

Hmmm, about those Desert Center restrooms. To we locals, that place is just the place where you don't get gas or take a piss on the way to the river. :) Imagine what poor travelers think, who pull into that place off of I-10. I mean sheesh, I-10 is a MAJOR cross-country thoroughfare for our fine country, running from Santa Monica all the way to Jacksonville, FL. It's kind of embarrassing to think of tourists from Germany, or Japan, or any other civilized country pulling into that Hell-hole. I think the owners of that gas station should be ashamed of themselves. Selling gas for $3 a gallon and they make practically NO effort to bring their bathrooms up to at least the level you might find in a Third World Country? It makes America look bad, if you ask me (but of course, it's their right.)
Happy boating,
CS

RacerX

08-01-2003, 08:41 AM

We got gas yesterday at Chiraco Summit...it was $1.94 a gallon!!! Just gas up on the east side of Indio at one of the two truck stops for $1.59. :D

roostwear

08-01-2003, 08:51 AM

Rexone:
only bathrooms I've seen that were worse were the old ones at Bluewater on the beach, (pre casino days)... Funny, I always thought the side door next to the pool tables at Bluewater marina LED to the restrooms! Had a nice river view, too!

boatnam2

08-01-2003, 08:56 AM

racerx that is luckys

mbrown2

08-01-2003, 09:00 AM

1stepcloser:
boatnam2:
.desert center has nice bathrooms stop and enjoy the free desert hospitality. ROTFLMAO!!!
You have a great sense of humor!!
Yes, indeed, stop and relieve yourself at Desert Center.
Particularly great for the lady, and the kids really appreciate the fresh scent as well...
ROTFLMAO!! If you did not need to throw up before you got there, you will want to throw up in the restroom...they should get rid of the men and women signs and just hang up some bio hazard signs...
We stop at Magoos if we need to use the restroom, clean place, nice people and old school pics of the desert when the Armed Forces setup shop and started training for desert war fare in WWII.

ColeTR1

08-01-2003, 09:32 AM

QUOTE]WTF!!! Those are bar none the friggin nastiest bathrooms I have ever seen in my entire life. I had to piss like a Clydesdale last time we went through there. I walked in the men's room and nearly puked from the odor. When I got to the terlet to offload, I opted to hold it for a cactus. I am 100% positive that there is some type of bacteria in those nasty crappers that can swim up stream while you're pissin and give you an infection that'll scare the shit outta any antibiotics known to man. [/QB][/QUOTE]
Only someone who has stop there can truly enjoy how funny this thread is!!

24RODjr

08-01-2003, 12:18 PM

Personally for me, The Desert Center bathrooms, a Sunday Edition of the LA Times, and a long sh!t are the highlights of my trip.
:-)

6 Dollar Boat

08-01-2003, 01:02 PM

RacerX
Member # 6572 posted August 01, 2003 09:41 AM
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We got gas yesterday at Chiraco Summit...it was $1.94 a gallon!!! Just gas up on the east side of Indio at one of the two truck stops for $1.59.
Or better yet get a truck that can make the round trip on one tank. I always fill up at Terrible's in Havasu. :D :D

Boatcop

08-01-2003, 01:58 PM

The last time I went through Desert Center I saw Stevo from Jack-Ass blowing chunks out side the door to the restrooms there.
Now you KNOW that's nasty. eek!
As far as gas, take the 10 all the way into AZ and get off at exit 1. The Flying J has gas that will always be at least 10 cents cheaper than what you can find anywhere in Ca, and a few cents lower than Havasu.
Then go through Ehrenberg and the Res into Parker. Much safer, and not that much longer.

1stepcloser

08-01-2003, 02:54 PM

mbrown2:
they should get rid of the men and women signs and just hang up some bio hazard signs...
Thats even more funny! I personally go across the highway to the snack bar(?) and use the little one around the back of the building...

ROZ

08-01-2003, 03:21 PM

I had gas in desert center once, once. wink

Big Jim H

08-01-2003, 03:39 PM

Stick with the 29 Palms route less traffic, more gas stations, and always cheaper than gas on highway 10

24RODjr

08-01-2003, 09:40 PM

Big Jim H:
Stick with the 29 Palms route less traffic, more gas stations, and always cheaper than gas on highway 10 ....Only if you like 400 traffic signals on the road to the river....
I'm with boatcop...I'm gonna try the ehrenberg route nextime through.

rvrkaosI

08-01-2003, 10:43 PM

has anyone eaten at the fast food restaurant of the desert center road turn off? I always see allot of people stopping off, but been affraid to try the grease pitt. Afterall, its pretty far away from any other place to eat....

24ROD

08-02-2003, 07:35 PM

rvrkaosI:
has anyone eaten at the fast food restaurant of the desert center road turn off? I always see allot of people stopping off, but been affraid to try the grease pitt. Afterall, its pretty far away from any other place to eat.... I hear they have great fresh sea food :D

24ROD

08-02-2003, 07:39 PM

24RODjr:
Big Jim H:
Stick with the 29 Palms route less traffic, more gas stations, and always cheaper than gas on highway 10 ....Only if you like 400 traffic signals on the road to the river....
I'm with boatcop...I'm gonna try the ehrenberg route nextime through. Are you j/k Mr Rice Road :confused: :p

Trailer Park Casanova

08-04-2003, 06:54 AM

We fuel up at the last Loves/ARCO just past Palm Springs and that'll hold us to the river.
McGoos is the place to stop on Rice Road ,, but check the freshness dates on any item you may decided to buy there.
[ August 04, 2003, 03:58 PM: Message edited by: Trailer Park Casanova ]