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today was a moving day

2/19/2019

A few of the vendors at Winter Range. You can buy everything from jerky to long johns. And due to the temperatures the long johns are selling quite well.

I had to pack up and move today, and I think it might qualify as the shortest move I've ever made because I had to go about 100 feet to another camp site. But that record won't last for long because on Sunday the 24th I have to move again, this time to the campsite right next to me.

This is what happens when you don't make reservations and you arrive during the busiest month of the year. But actually I don't mind, I'd rather move twice than have to worry about keeping to a reservation schedule. And after all even though I didn't make reservations at Ben Avery's and I'm here during the busiest month of the entire year, I've still got a place to stay.

And speaking of full, when I was at the escapees club in Casa Grande, they were full. I called the Lost Dutchman state Park in the Superstition Mountains just outside of Phoenix to see if I could spend some time there in March, and they said they were full. I went to a local county Park here called Cave Creek Regional Park and asked them about a few days in March, and they said they were full. I'm not sure what all that means, and I don't like the sound of it but it makes me really glad I'm set up for boondocking

And speaking of boondocking I don't know where I'm going from here I just know I'm supposed to leave Ben Avery on the 27th. But I think I may either go to Ajo Arizona or find out where the flowers are blooming and go there. I'm not sure yet but what I am sure of is I can't depend on RV parks having room for me so I better be prepared to be self-sufficient.

theboondork

Single-action shooters Ben Avery gun range

These guys look like a bunch of cattle thieving dry gulchers if there ever was.

You'll see a lot of what looks like baby carriages sitting around but they're actually the carts that the Cowboys carry all their guns, ammo, and other shooting paraphernalia to the various events.

Shopping cowboy style.

Remembering the old times

4 Comments

Barney Ward link

2/19/2019 04:26:27 pm

While trying to sort out the near future trip to Alabama I ran full face plant into the weekends, state parks in Texas are full EVERY weekend. Too many folks too little space even in TEXAS. For now I am looking at alternatives with fishing in Rockport until I leave for Alabama the likely answer. Next fall is going to be very interesting I am afraid.

Tom

2/19/2019 04:58:07 pm

I usually don't think ahead as far as fall, my brain doesn't possess that much computing power. But I am a bit concerned about this coming Spring, and are the New Mexico parks going to be as crowded as what's going on everywhere else I've looked.

I seldom look into the future since I have enough trouble figuring out what's going to happen tomorrow, but here's what I think might happen in the near future. As RV parks get more crowded the owners will do what business people normally do, they will raise their rates. And since the state parks are crowded the government will do what governments do, and raise their prices also.

So as near as I can tell the simplest solution to this problem is for me to become a better and more knowledgeable boondocker. Boondocking areas get closed off every once in a while so I need to have more options of where to boondock and how to be even more comfortable and self-sustaining while boondocking.

I think that's going to be the direction I'm going as more and more baby boomers not just adopt the full time lifestyle, but adopt the RV lifestyle, where there camping for two or three months out of the year in the places that full timers go so there will be more competition for all camping areas. But I think the boondocking areas will be the last to fill up because that type of living just doesn't appeal to most folks.

Tom

2/19/2019 06:12:15 pm

Last spring in April when I left Alamogordo to head north, I ran into the full campground mess at Valley of Fires, Bottomless lakes and Brantley Lake. Just by accident a trailer was pulling out late at Brantley when I came through late in the day. It is not pleasant thoughts about crowded public land like you have already found this year.

2/19/2019 06:43:28 pm

Other than becoming a more knowledgeable boondocker the only alternatives I can think of are...

Become a contrarian and go to the opposite places everybody else goes. That would be somewhat north in the winter, and somewhat south in the summer. My aversion to cold weather precludes this from being a reasonable choice....

By any means necessary become wealthy. With enough money you can stay anywhere you darn well please...

Move into a smaller more mobile RV. This allows for greater choices of places to stay both at RV parks, and boondocking. And if this small RV is stealthy you will have an even greater amount of places to stay.

Contact all of your relatives and invite yourself to stay at their houses for extended periods of time during the summer and winter based on their location in the country.

Become a professional campground host and get jobs in the parts of the country where the weather is suitable.

Become a joiner. Join the Elks, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the VFW, and the Moose. These clubs frequently have camping available if you're a member of the club.

Reenlist in the military and stay long enough to retire so you can use the Famcamp system to camp on almost all military bases.

Camp in VA hospital parking lots. Tell security you have an appointment so they will expect you to be there all summer.

I've given a lot of thought to all of these solutions and have decided that the best one for me is to become wealthy, that way I can drive into a State Park and hand out hundred dollar bills to anyone that will leave. So I'm going to go out and buy a lottery ticket just as soon as I have a dollar.

Tom

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