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The bronco kinda, sorta, feels like home to me.

10/13/2021

Clicking the pics will expose you to birds..... No bats, just birds.

A couple of geese leaving a pond.

I've completed winterizing the water system in the Arctic Fox, and now I just need to go through some canned goods and see what I want to put in the bronco and what I want to throw away. At the beginning of the Bat flu pandemic, I stocked up on canned goods, some of which I wasn't too thrilled about eating, and now some of them are about to age out on me.

It looks like it's going to be somewhat chilly around here for a few days, with the highs being in the low fifties and dipping a little below freezing Thursday and Friday night. But the weather guessers have taken the snow off the forecast, which often means we've got a better chance of snow now.

I put the bronco back on the truck as soon as I worked up a little ambition. I kind of missed not having it back there; it's really handy having your home with you everywhere you go, even if it's to the grocery store. I didn't feel that way with the Arctic Fox; I didn't feel I was home until I had a special and approved place to Park the Arctic Fox. But with the bronco, I truly feel that almost any place I park is home. And since I can park in a normal parking spot, I don't feel I'm in the way like I did pulling the Arctic Fox.

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A pair of Cranes heading South. It won't be long now and I'll be joining them.

With a wingspan over 6 feet, Sandhill Cranes are some big birds

Old courthouse in Fairplay Colorado. And yes there still using it.

6 Comments

Judith

10/14/2021 08:24:45 pm

Glad you are feeling cozy with the bronco. And that photo of the geese is really a good one. I hate to repeat myself, but a good photo is a good photo and you take quite a few of them.

Tom

10/14/2021 08:46:54 pm

Thank you so much Judith. As always I have to use my talent wisely since I have so little of it.

I don't know if I feel better about living in the bronco because it is really small, but I do feel good about the mobility its going to give me. And how I think its going to open doors to places I wouldn't have gone before while towing the Arctic Fox. But we shall see. I do think I'm going to learn a lot this winter about the true meaning of simplifying my life.

Tom

Linda

10/15/2021 01:15:56 pm

Yes! Feeling at home is wonderful! Glad you got there. And having your home always with you is great, too. This is going to be a great winter for you.

10/15/2021 03:43:50 pm

Well thank you Linda, coming from someone whose boondocked in small RVs like you have means a lot.

And speaking of having your home always with you. There has been plenty of times when I was boondocking in Quartzsite, and I had to leave the Arctic Fox and make that long drive to the Walmart in Parker. But that Walmart in Parker, as you know, has a rather small parking lot, and is always packed with people during the winter, and I seldom saw room in the parking lot for a trailer the size of the Arctic Fox.

But now I can drive the bronco there anytime I want and overnight in the parking lot if I feel like it because I can park in a regular parking spot if need be. To me that's the kind of convenience I'm hoping the bronco will bring to my winter travels.

Tom

10/16/2021 02:28:31 pm

Across from Walmart in Parker is McDonald's and behind McDonald's is a large gravel lot where I sometimes stayed. I once watched two UPS drivers meet there and swap trailers--each then heading back from where they came. That lot also becomes a thruway for people avoiding the main road.
Also, that McDonald's has several outlets near the restrooms where you can charge all your electronics while drinking your coffee or whatever. I sometimes ate lunch there when the days had been too cloudy for my solar system to keep everything charged.

10/16/2021 03:45:24 pm

Unfortunately Linda like a lot of other well-known boondocking spots... Good things never last. About 2 years ago I pulled into that large parking lot behind McDonalds in Parker, in the Arctic Fox, and in less than an hour a reservation policeman, I guess that's all reservation land, pulled up and told me that I could eat lunch there, which is what I was doing at the time, but I wasn't allowed to overnight there. I took his word for it since he didn't look like someone who was interested in discussing the matter, and went just down the road to the casino and boondocked for one night there.

Tom

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