Desert Safety: Natural Route-Finding Skills Every Boondocker Should Have
Last month a friend of mine was leaving for Yuma and left early in the morning before sunup when the desert is very dark and got lost. The desert is riddled with a spider web of little roads and in the dark it’s amazingly easy to confuse them with each other. After...
A New Christmas Tradition: Giving to Beggars and Panhandlers Instead of Each Other
I’m posting this on Christmas day and so I want to make it somewhat on topic, the problem is I’m not a Christian so I don’t celebrate Christmas. Beyond that, I despise the wanton waste and destruction that Christmas has become and I’ve been preaching against it for a...
Staying Safe in the Desert: Flash Floods
In the last few weeks I’ve had two experiences that I thought had potential to be dangerous so I thought I should write about them and share them with all of you. That’s especially true now with the Rubber Tramp Rendezvous coming up and many people heading toward the...
2-Day Trip to Algodones, for Mexico Dental Work
A few posts ago I talked about getting health insurance, but that's only part of the health picture because many policies don't cover dental, eyeglasses or even prescriptions. If they do cover them, you'll still end up paying a lot because of the deductible. My...
Living and Traveling in a Pop-Up Aliner Trailer
Ups and downs of an Aliner (pun intended) (As you may know, I don't recommend pop-up trailers or campers for full-timers because I believe their disadvantages outweigh their advantages. However, the Aliner pop-up trailer solves all the problems but has all the...
I got Health Insurance! Open Enrollment at Healthcare.gov
(Because we’re in the annual enrollment period for Obamacare I’m going to write about health care. I don’t pretend to understand most of this stuff, in fact, much of what I know I learned from a fellow blogger. For that reason I encourage you to go to her blog...
Photos of Cranes from Boque del Apache NWR
(If you get the blog post by email and can't see the photos, you may need to click through to the site.) As you might know I just went over to New Mexico for a week to spend time at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge at the Festival of the Cranes. Every...
The Tribe at Thanksgiving: Deep Frying a Turkey for 40 people
(If you're getting this by email without the pictures, just click through to the site to see them all.) As you know if you've been following me for long, one of my main goals for this website is to create a vandwelling tribe. I don't think it's enough to just inspire...
What I'm Thankful For
I'm posting this on Thanksgiving day but the truth is I'm not a big fan of our traditional Holidays and I try hard to have nothing to do with them. I've been hosting a Thankgiving Dinner for the last three years but I only do it as a special gift to a tribe of people...
I'm in a New Documentary on Mobile Living.
Back in the summer of 2012 I was contacted by Michael Tubbs (who is a Professor at the University of Texas) about the possibility of being in a new documentary he was going to make about mobile living. He had started to do research on the topic and had come across my...
Trip to the Festival of the Cranes, NM
I've just arrived back in Eherenberg, AZ from my trip to Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in central New Mexico. It was an amazingly wonderful trip that I liked so much I'm already planning to go again next year. I took 4 classes and they were all...
Why I love The Southwest: Sunrise, Sunset and Rainbows–OH MY!
(At the very bottom of the post is a map to Thanksgiving Dinner. Each post will have it until after Thanksgiving.) Sometimes I get to talking to people and I tell them how much I love the desert and look forward to going back to it every year. Pretty often they just...