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Leaving here soon, where it will be is not settled science

2/25/2022

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In the County Fairgrounds Tucson Arizona Picture

When I wake up in the morning there are often an RV or two parked in the boondocking area that weren't here when I went to bed. But there just waiting for the office to open up at 9 o'clock so they can get checked into the RV sites normal RVers stay in.

To put the final touches on my boring battery story yesterday, not knowing if I would be able to get new batteries, I drove the truck around and ran it for a while to put some charge in the batteries until I could get some new ones.

After buying and installing the new batteries, I set the old ones on the ground and checked them with a multi-meter; after letting them sit long enough for the surface charge to dissipate. Both batteries were reading 12.2. And when I got up the next morning, one battery was reading 12.2 and the other 9.0, so I had a bad battery.

I took the old batteries back to O'Reilly's this morning and got my $44 core charge back, and since I was at my shopping area already, I went to a Safeway, Walmart, and filled up with diesel fuel since I'm probably going to be pulling out of here Monday morning.

I read an Internet article that said it's not looking good for a flower super-bloom this season. It started with good moisture in the Arizona area, but there hasn't been enough late in the season, like right now, to light the flowers up. Oh well, there will still be flowers in bloom in the spring; they just won't be spectacular.

It always makes me a little sad when I'm leaving the Pima County Fairgrounds. I enjoy being at the Fairgrounds, and because there are so many good things about it, I know I will always be coming back. But like I've said in the past, "The only place I like better than where I'm at, is the place I'm going to." I'm not sure where that will be yet, but because the weather looks so good, I'm leaning towards going back to Whitewater Draw so I can wave goodbye to the Sandhill Cranes before they leave Arizona.

Theboondork

Hunter Jumper.

A sunset stroll.

Whitewater Draw Arizona. You know the more I think about that place, the more I want to go back. Even without 20,000 Sandhill Cranes, I'm sure I would enjoy being there.

Whitewater draw Arizona. It was a pretty place to boondock. And there were other things to see there besides the Sandhill Cranes. Even though it's supposed to be about 80° for most of the time I would be there. Several of those days are predicted to be cloudy, and cloudy days are great for taking snapshots.

Or maybe I'm just feeling a bit guilty because when it got a little chilly at Whitewater Draw I wimped out and slunk away to boondock in Ajo where it was warmer. And now I feel like I need to remove the stench of my failure and go back just to prove to myself that I haven't become a little girly man.... Remembering the old saying, "When you fall off your horse you've got to get back on, or shoot him and buy a motorcycle,"

6 Comments

OFM

2/26/2022 04:13:27 pm

Looking at the weather, I imagine my next move will still be in Texas. My hope is still to get into NM for a few days this year. But I want 50F or warmer at night for me. My normal place in Alabama for the summer has a revised new screwed up system and I can't seem to work out a plan that will work with it, Have fun in spite of the humans around us.

Tom

2/26/2022 04:46:11 pm

Sounds like you might still be having heating problems Barney. I thought by now I would have hooked up my Little Buddy heater instead of using my furnace in the bronco. But my extreme laziness, and terminal lack of ambition has got me still sitting here looking at it sitting on the floor next to me without bothering to hook it up to propane yet. I've got a long enough propane hose to hook it up to a 5 gallon cylinder, I just don't seem to get around to it.

Since you mentioned normal heaters put out too much heat for your trailer, the bronco being much smaller than your Arctic Fox, I was hoping I would have the Little Buddy Heater working and be able to report to you that it was doing a good enough job that maybe you could consider one to extend your boondocking so you wouldn't be so tied to RV parks.

But so far these cold snaps haven't lasted long enough for me to worry about heating in the daytime, and of course I don't use any heat at night, I just dress warm, and have a pretty warm blanket, and a thick down comforter which keeps me perfectly comfortable way below freezing.

I'm not sure what you can do about RV parks, my feelings have always been there getting expensive and hard to find, and that will get worse before it gets better. But you never know, the possibility of five dollar a gallon gasoline by next summer might leave RV parks short of customers and lowering prices to survive.

Tom.... Having toooo much fun staying warm in the desert.

Glen

2/26/2022 06:19:15 pm

This could be what you are looking for:
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/996437150975081/?ref=search&referral_code=marketplace_search&referral_story_type=post&tracking=browse_serp%3A06938b9a-daaa-471a-932c-15295f30ccb5

2/26/2022 07:20:55 pm

Thank you for that suggestion Glen. I trust anything with the Arctic Fox name on it, and they built very nice high-quality campers. But Unfortunately, that high quality weighs a lot and my three-quarter-ton truck just won't tote that kind of load, plus that one, in particular, was for an 8-foot bed and I have a short bed. I wish I could get an Arctic Fox camper but I haven't run into one yet that's light enough for me to carry.

Tom

Glenglen

2/26/2022 07:34:41 pm

After I posted it I realized it was too long for your truck and being in California a place you wouldn't want to enter. Good luck!

2/26/2022 09:01:43 pm

That's okay Glen, I appreciate you thinking about my problem on what to buy, and helping out. And as usual I need all the help I can get. But you're right about California, I can't think of much of anything that would cause me to go there.

Tom

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