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11/6/2021

Roses are red, violets are blue, inside the bronco there's no room for two.

My first night back in Quartzsite. It wasn't much of a sunset, but I was glad to have any clouds at all. There's no post this afternoon, just pictures of the inside of the bronco, I was too relaxed, and enjoying the peace and quiet to write anything.

Stepping into the bronco is the first part of my security system. Any criminal with bad knees that wants to get into the bronco is in big trouble. The steps are narrow and steep and no one with bad knees could possibly make it past the first two. And if they are able to get back down the steps to the ground again, they won't be able to hobble very far.

These are pictures of the inside of the bronco while I'm living in it. Taking these pictures forced me to throw away some things I apparently didn't need, and find places to store things that I normally leave sitting around. On the left side of the aisle is a Mr. heater, Little Buddy Heater, that I plan on trying out when it gets cold enough to need it. I'm a firm believer in other means of heating besides the factory furnace.

Preparing to take all these pictures required a lot of effort on my part, and seriously cut into my relaxing time. Fortunately Quartzsite is a good place to relax so I will probably be able to catch up on my lost relaxing time in a few days.

I didn't straighten up anything in this picture, this is the way it normally looks when I'm living in it. On the close-up pictures of different areas I straightened them up somewhat so it was easier to tell how I'm really living.

Turning around and looking back out the door. You can see on the left what used to be a shower but I turned that into storage. On the right you can see my little refrigerator. When I'm camped a lot of stuff ends up on that flat area on the right, but when I have to put the top down everything has to come off of the flat area because the roof lays on it.

This is what used to be the shower, I felt like I no longer needed a shower in the bronco even though all of my relatives vehemently disagreed.

But storage is more important to me and this area gives me a lot more storage space. Normally it's not this neat There's usually stuff that I don't know what to do with, just thrown in here when I'm traveling.

Palomino bronco pop-up camper kitchen Picture

I straightened things up before I took a picture of the kitchen, so this is not what it looks like what I'm normally living in the bronco. What little counter-space there is usually has stuff sitting on it. As you can see there's no room to do any serious cooking in this kitchen, it's mostly things like soup getting warmed up, or an egg getting fried. And even if I had more counter-space I wouldn't have room to store all of the cooking ingredients a normal cook would have.

I also straightened up what passes for a sofa. Normally there is a table and cushions for two people to sit on in this spot, but I made it more of a lounging area for myself, and usually there's various computer wires laying all over because this is where everything electric gets recharged. Phone, computers, MiFi, headphones, AAA batteries, trackball, camera, electric drill, if it's got batteries this is where it usually ends up.

And lastly my bedroom. I moved the down comforter out of the picture, because I only use it when it's cold, and it hasn't been cold enough on this trip to use it yet. But it does get down into the fifties at night so I do need the one blanket you see. Also the bed needs to be made up, and the pillow removed, because when the broncos top comes down it lays on top of the bed

So that's all there is, and there's not much of it. But thanks to Don for requesting pictures of the inside of the bronco, it got me out of coming up with something to write about today.

On one of my earliest blog posts, when I first moved out of my house and became a full-timer, I took some measurements and determined that my 30 foot Arctic Fox 5th wheel that I was moving into was smaller than my homes master bath. Well now I can say that the bronco is smaller than the Arctic Fox's living room. I guess my future next logical step would be full-timing on my little Beta 250 motorcycle.

Theboondork

10 Comments

OFM

11/6/2021 06:05:19 pm

Thank you for the tour. It enlightened me on a couple of questions I had rambling around in my empty skull.

Tom

11/6/2021 08:31:07 pm

I'm glad the information was useful to you Barney, there really isn't much to show in the bronco, it's about as simple as an RV can get. And I guess I'll find out before this winters over if it's something that I can live in or not.

Tom

Malisa

11/6/2021 07:02:30 pm

Pretty sunset pic!

11/6/2021 08:36:19 pm

Thank you Malisa, I thought it was a rather plain sunset for this area myself, but you're the one with the artistic ability so I will take your word for it.

Tom

Judith

11/6/2021 09:20:02 pm

I am very glad Don made that request!! And I was impressed with the interior of the bronco. Very livable, and amazingly tidy! (Well, we know you picked up things a bit.) Really does look nice!

My only concern is, can you actually stand up in there? That's the only thing that wouldn't make it livable to me...if I had to stoop. Gravity is already my enemy at my age. And I would need a handrail to get in there in the first place. So not likely to rob you.

And of course, an indoor loo, as the British say? I guess that's lacking, but if you're really, really out in the boonies, then......not needed.

11/7/2021 08:12:53 am

Sorry it's taking me longer to respond to comments, but with only two lead acid batteries in the bronco, and only four 100 W solar panels to keep them charged I can't leave my 17 inch laptop running all the time like I can in the Arctic Fox so I don't check on my website very often.

One thing about living in a space this small is you have to keep it relatively tidy or there will be no room to walk, sit down, or eat. There needs to be a place for everything and everything in its place, but living in a space this small, at least so far, I don't have a space to put everything.

No problem with standing up, the ceiling is almost 7 feet tall. I had my fill of stooping many years ago when I traveled in a Ford van, it was better than a tent, but crawling around on my hands and knees while I was in it got old really quick..... As did I, and now my days of stooping for any length of time is out of the question.

There actually is a foldout handrail beside the bronco door, but I seldom use it. I have a porta potty, so I don't actually have to go outside. And there's an outside shower on the bronco with hot water and everything, and you're right, I'm often in places where I can take a shower outside if I want to.

Tom

Don link

11/7/2021 03:47:39 pm

Thanks for the photo tour! I always wonder why builders put 3 or even 4 burner stoves in small RVs. It seems like a waste of space. I like what you did with the table area, it looks like a place I'd like to spend time too.

Take care.

11/7/2021 06:49:43 pm

Well thank you for suggesting it Don, I'm always open to suggestions on what to write about, or what to take pictures of. After all I do this every day, and my lifes not very exciting, in fact the only difference in my life and anybody else's is my home has wheels and I get a new view whenever I feel like it. Other than that I don't have much to write about.

I've always heard that the RV manufacturers build RVs based mostly on people's feelings. They decorate the outside to appeal to men, and right now the tough outdoorsy boondocking look is very popular with the guys. But the wife and/or girlfriend had better like what she sees when she walks inside the camper for the first time or there will be no sale.

And there's two places the women are going to look at first, the kitchen, and it better look something like a gourmet kitchen with a lot of burners on the stove. And then the bathroom. Most other parts of the RV are negotiable but the kitchen and the bathroom had better be eye catchers.

Tom

Linda

11/8/2021 11:30:44 am

Thanks for the photos. I could live in that. If I could get up those stairs. :)

Have you read Al's blog posts about experimenting with canned meats? No refrigeration necessary. And I think he buys them at a dollar store.

11/8/2021 02:15:52 pm

I haven't read those posts about canned meats yet. I know I ate a lot of Spam when I was a kid, I also ate a lot of Vienna Sausages until I figured out what was in them. But there is something that makes me a little squeamish about eating canned meat from the Dollar Store, especially if it's sitting next to the cat food.

But I'll look it up and see what he says.

Tom

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