by Bob | Jan 27, 2014 | Bike, Boondocking, Camping Locations, My Daily Life
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,...
by Bob | Jan 23, 2014 | Boondocking, Entertainment, My Daily Life
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...
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 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 | Jul 3, 2013 | Boondocking, Conversion Details, Which Vehicle to Live In?
Recently I wrote about my desire to get further back and included pictures of my home-built camper. I’ve had requests for more information about that camper, so in today’s post I am going to tell you how I built it. This is basically a trimmed down version of this...
by Bob | Jun 30, 2013 | Boondocking, Vandwelling Philosophy
(Many of the comments I have got from this post expressed anger at the individual Ranger who came into my camp. I need to apologize to him and to all my readers for miss-communicating. The Ranger was polite, reasonable and professional; he was a good guy doing a hard...
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...
