by Bob | Jan 7, 2014 | Camping Locations
As you might know, I’m doing a series of posts reviewing 2013. It was my intention to not just have photos, but to recap some of the lessons I learned through the year. In my last post covering April, I forgot to recap some of the lessons I’ve...
by Bob | Jan 4, 2014 | Camping Locations, My Daily Life
April was a very busy month for me! It began with a move to the Prescott NF as the weather in the desert got too hot to be comfortable. We had a very nice camp about 17 miles north of the small town of Adelanto, AZ. It was small town but it had a Safeway grocery store...
by Bob | Dec 11, 2013 | Boondocking, Camping Locations, My Daily Life, Water and Trash
As much as I love being in Quartzsite, but I can’t spend my whole winter there. Within a week of setting up camp a BLM Ranger came and reminded us that we needed to get permits. In itself that’s no big deal because the permits are free and just a formality. But...
by Bob | Oct 17, 2013 | Boondocking, Camping Locations, Travel
(Today we have a guest post from Marshall Ellgas who is one of my East Coast readers. Marshall is a vandwelling snowbird who spends his winters camping for free in Florida, Since I have many East Coast readers, I thought you might find this helpful. Most of the...
by Bob | Oct 12, 2013 | Adventure, Camping Locations, Inspiration-Spirituality, Photography, Travel
When we last saw our intrepid Road Trippers they were happy campers at Mule Canyon, but as so often is the case, they soon succumbed to the dreaded disease “itch-us feet-us.” There is no known cure for this devilish sickness except to give in to the urge to turn the...
by Bob | Oct 7, 2013 | Adventure, Boondocking, Camping Locations, Photography, Travel
(I’m writing this post from Ridgway, CO and we just finished out Jeep tour into the San Juan Mountains between Ouray and Silverton, Colorado. Words fail to describe how exquisite it was! Fortunately, I took lots of pictures so I will let them do the speaking in...
by Bob | Oct 5, 2013 | Adventure, Camping Locations, My Daily Life, Photography, Travel, Vandwelling Philosophy
On Sunday, September 30 we began our Utah-Colorado road trip and left Flagstaff. On the way out of town we stopped at the storage yard and dropped off the trailer. From there we drove just across the Utah border and camped at Goosnecks State park. It’s a very nice...
by Bob | Jun 19, 2013 | Boondocking, Camping Locations, Security/Safety Versus Freedom
I recently posted about my Williams, AZ camp, and I mentioned it was too difficult for big rigs to get into. That led to several comments and emails about what was a good vehicle to get into the back-country! I realized I had never blogged about the important issue of...