Surviving in a Van: Scooters & Motorcycles Versus an Economy Car and Tent
We’re continuing our look at how to survive if Peak Oil is true, but at the same time we are only going to do things that make our lives better now, or at least don’t harm us now. In the last post we started looking at what I think is our best first step and which is...
Vandwelling Survivalist: Riding a Bike or Electric Bike
I’m doing a series of posts on how I’m preparing to survive an ongoing recession and an ever-increasing price of oil as a result of Peak Oil. Chances are you have an idea in mind of what a survivalist is and they are mostly negative opinions. Before we look at the...
Prepping for Survival in a Van: Peak Oil
This is the second in a series on Survivalism and Prepping for a vandweller. The first question I have to address is “What are you Prepping for?” The simple answer is I am prepping for continuing and increasing high oil prices (and the economic problems that will go...
Survivalism, Prepping and Vandwelling: Strange Bedfellows?
Those of you who have been involved with my websites for long must know I’m actually something of an environmental extremist. I believe the environment is teetering on the edge of catastrophe and humans are the main cause. That’s why I live in a van and preach against...
Establishing Boundaries and Hauling the Honda Rebel 250
The RTR ended last week and we have since moved back over to our Ehrenberg, AZ camp. After most RTRs there is a group of us that leave and then camps together afterwards, and this year was no different, 15 of us moved to this camp and another group went down to Yuma,...
Finding Heaven on Earth: How Boondockers Spend Their Time
One of the questions I get all the time is “What do you do all day?” Most people who read this blog know that I am retired and don’t go to a job every day and they also know that I spend nearly all my time camping out in nature; either the National Forest in the...
Report From RTR 2014: Community
As you should know by now we are just about at the end of the 4th annual Winter Rubber Tramp Rendezvous (RTR) at Quartzsite, AZ. It has been a wonderful even full of great people making friend and life-time connections. At all times of the day there are groups of...
Report on Winter RTR, January, 2014
We are about half way through the 4th annual winter RTR and I think I can say with all honesty this is the best one yet!! We moved it to a new location and it's my favorite! We have: plenty of room, a nice view of the town, great cell/data signal, little freeway...
2013 Year in Review: Lessons and Photos
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 learned. It just...
Christmas Dinner 2013 and Why I Don’t Celebrate Christmas
I’m posting this on Christmas Day so traditionally it should have something to do with Christmas and end with a big cheery “Merry Christmas” and “Happy New Year.” Or, at the minimum, I’m supposed to say “Happy Holidays to you all!” But I’m not a person who follows...
2013 Year in Review: April
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...
Come to Christmas at our Ehrenberg Camp
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 while...