by Bob | Aug 5, 2016 | Beating the Heat, Blog, Boondocking
By far the hardest part of living in a van is coping with summer heat–it can be miserable!! If you live in a city and stealth park there is virtually nothing you can do but look for and try to park in the shade whenever you can. Even the noise of running a...
by Bob | Apr 2, 2016 | Boondocking, Camping Locations, Travel
Generally I can stay in my Ehrenberg, AZ winter camp until sometime in March when it will start getting hotter than I like, but this year, because of El Nino, the heat came early. Starting in February it was pushing up into the high 80s very often and even hitting 90...
by Bob | Dec 13, 2015 | Arizona, Boondocking, Tribe
While I love living cheaply off-grid in a car, van or RV sometimes it does get a bit lonely. Even though the majority of us who chose this life are at least partially loners (and sometimes extreme loners) some part of us usually still longs for contact with...
by Bob | Dec 6, 2015 | Boondocking, Travel, Vandwelling Philosophy
It’s time to do my annual post of returning to Ehrenberg, Arizona for dispersed camping in the winter. It seems like the longer I’m a Snowbird the more I become like a real migratory bird! Every winter I come home to almost the exact same spot because it...
by Bob | Nov 22, 2015 | Boondocking, Camping Locations, Travel, Wyoming
After our eventful two days of fighting traffic, storms and mud in the Black Hills it was time to do the final leg of our Wyoming adventure. There was one last Scenic Byway I needed to travel and that was the Snowy Range Scenic Byway that’s on the far southern edge of...
by Bob | Nov 12, 2015 | Arizona, Boondocking, Camping Locations, Travel
I’ve been spending my winters in the Arizona desert for quite a few years now and I’m starting to get a pretty good idea of how they work. Early to mid-October are almost always still hot and by that I mean they begin right around 100 degrees during the...
by Bob | Aug 21, 2015 | Boondocking, Camping Locations, Travel
(Because of a silly mistake on my part, this post is out of order. It should have come before my last post which has me leaving West Yellowstone, MT and going to Cody. This one tells about me getting to West Yellowstone. Oh well, no real harm done.) After my...
by Bob | Aug 11, 2015 | Boondocking, Photography, Travel, Wyoming
In my last post we were traveling the Smiths Fork/Grays River Loop and got as far as LaBarge Pass and the Tri-Basin divide where I turned north on Greys River Road. Once on the Grey’s River Road you go over a slight pass and head down to Alpine. At the top of the pass...
