my best guess at what's going on with the LTVA's.

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Sunset at La Posa South LTVA Quartzsite Arizona.

I called the BLM Yuma field office this morning and asked them what's going on with the LTVA's and how can I re-up for another two weeks stay. And I was told that they didn't actually know what's going on with the LTVA's at the moment and that several of the top honchos at the BLM are going to have a conference call sometime today and decide what to do about the situation, she took my number and said she would call me back with the information..... I'm still waiting.

In normal times before the plague, on April 15 at the end of the LTVA's camping season, they would turn off the water, lock up the dumpsite, and the LTVA's would revert back to free 14 day boondocking just like all the rest of the BLM lands, and I'm pretty sure that's what's going to happen this time.

But since the LTVA hosts were pulled out early, probably for health safety concerns, the LTVA is still open but there's no way to register and pay the fees. So my guess is they're not going to put hosts back in here, because the virus situation is worse now not better, and the only place in the LTVA's where you have to come in contact with other people is in the welcome center where you pay your fees.

So my prediction based solely on common sense is..... The BLM is going to waive the camping fees, since at this point in time collecting them isn't worth the hassle or the safety concerns. They will keep the water and dumpsites open till April 15, and based on the government's new self isolating till the end of April decision maybe even try to keep them open longer, since a lot of these full timers don't have any place else to go.

And after the 15th the LTVA will revert to free boondocking, just like always, maybe even with the 14 day stay limit temporarily removed, again based on the end of April lockdown decision.

I see this morning that the FDA has approved hydroxychloroquine for the treatment of the Covid-19 virus and all I could think of was "it's about time". For one reason or another government agencies are often slow on the uptake, which is fine if you've got plenty of time to have endless meetings on the subject but in times like this things need to get done quickly and some risk is acceptable. I just hope they have enough of those pills to make a difference.

Since there's a lot of improvement going on right now in the testing and treatment for the virus I feel like the government's latest estimation that by the end of April we can start slowly getting things back to normal makes more sense than the previous hope of getting it done by Easter. And it makes me feel a lot better now that there's a possible date for things to start turning around.

                        theboondork

Boondocking mountains Quartzsite Arizona.

Boondocking sunset Quartzsite Arizona.