Well I made it to the escapees RV park near Congress Arizona, it was only about an hour drive so I got here around 11 o'clock. The RV park is located between Wickenburg and Congress so it is definitely out in the middle of nowhere. But that's not a bad thing, there's a lot of public land around and you can ride out of the RV park and right into BLM land, so lots of people here have quads and other kinds of off-road vehicles. The RV park not only has temporary campers like me but it has a lot of permanent people that live in small houses that they own, and I imagine some of them stay here year-round, although I would think summers here must be difficult to deal with. The place is very neat and well cared for and not at all like some RV parks that get very run down looking when people start living there full-time. I took a few pictures of the cactus around here, because there's a lot of cactus around here. I'm sorry I can't put names on these cacti but I have no idea what most of them are, but if I'm going to stay here in the desert a while I guess I will have to learn. But I think that if you stumble and fall into one of these things what it's called will be the last thing on your mind. I think tomorrow I will go back into Wickenburg and buy some groceries and maybe stop and see the rodeo in town, when I came through there today it looks like they were getting set up for a rodeo. Then maybe Sunday I will go Scouting for some boondocking spots.
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I'm spending today packing and getting ready to leave tomorrow, I've decided I want to go to Congress Arizona and spend some time at the escapees RV park there. One of the reasons I picked that spot is it looks like there may be a lot of places to boondock in the deserts around Congress. And I think using the escapees park as a home base while I scout for boondocking spots might be a way for me to learn more about boondocking while still having the comfort and safety of an RV park.
I've always wanted to boondock more than I do but I don't have much experience with living out in the middle of nowhere and this seems like a way to slowly ease into the experience. Last year I put five 140 Watt Kyocera solar panels on the Arctic Fox and four 6 Volt Trojan batteries to store the electricity, I also installed a 1000 Watt inverter which so far has all been working very well for the short times that I have dry camped. One of the things that I would like to do is make videos of how to get to the different boondocking spots that I stay at or visit. I see a lot of information on the Internet about where to boondock, but very little about how to get there and what the roads looks like. So I am going to make videos starting at the main road and driving all the way to the spots or areas where it's legal to boondock. That way you can see what the roads look like, and be able to make a decision on whether or not you can make it across a dry wash or under a tree or have room to turn around. Now don't expect miracles, it takes a lot of skill to make an interesting video and those are skills I do not yet possess, but I will work on it. It may take a lot of time but as far as I know time is one thing I have plenty of. I took a few pictures of people shooting, it was a beautiful day today so there was a lot of people out here.
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