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Storrie Lake state Park New Mexico

10/20/2017

My electric site at Storrie Lake state Park New Mexico

After fighting a strong head wind for most of the morning I decided to stay at Storrie Lake state Park in New Mexico. I thought I was going to go on to Santa Fe but I got tired of looking at eight miles per gallon on my fuel indicator and pulled into Storrie Lake for a couple of days.

There's nothing wrong with being at Storrie Lake I've stayed here many many times I just thought I was going to try a different state Park, but the cold front that's coming in tomorrow was really kicking up a headwind and Storrie Lake was closer than Santa Fe.

That cold front also caused me to do something I normally wouldn't do, instead of boondocking for free, I paid four dollars and got an electric site. My reasoning for this extravagance was that instead of using my propane which will cost some amount of money, for four dollars I can heat with electricity, run my refrigerator on electricity, cook on my hotplate instead of the propane stove, and use my toaster oven if I want to. So I figure that if it gets cold enough I could be saving money by paying for electricity.

theboondork

2 Comments

Barney Ward

10/20/2017 08:10:21 pm

Since such a cold wimp, I run a warm trailer. When heating in the winter and boondocking I seem to use about a pound ($2) or a little more of LPG a day including the ref, water heating etc. Since my trailer is about half the volume of yours without a slide, I would expect you to run close to $3 a day. All this does not factor in the driving to get refills of propane. when it is all said and done I much prefer cold weather camping with electric hookups.

theboondork

10/20/2017 10:46:19 pm

That's about right, during my last two weeks in Denver most days were pretty nice but nights were getting down into the high 30s, low 40s. all my heating was done with propane and I used one 10 gallon tank in those two weeks. The problem was I was paying $3.85 a gallon for propane in Denver.

I think I've become a cold wimp. While in Denver whenever somebody in my family would come into the trailer they would always comment on how hot it was, it felt fine to me.

Tom... toooo happy to be heading south.

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