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08-14-2007, 04:45 PM
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Rivet Master 
1978 31' Excella 500
Venice
, California
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 1,067
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Boondocking-What is it? Why, simply stated, it is your voucher for the rapidly diminishing resource of personal freedom.
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'78 Excella 500,"The Silver Pullit". vacuum over hydraulic disc brakes, center bath, rear twin. '67 Travelall 1200 B 4X4 WBCCI 3737
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08-14-2007, 05:03 PM
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Retired.
Currently Looking...
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Join Date: Jun 2003
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Originally Posted by klattu
Now if I could just make her loosen her grip on the cell phone...
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That's easy, just remove the battery from it when she isn't looking.
BTW, as far as the definition of boondocking, think "Gilligan's Island".
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Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy, and taste good with ketchup.
Terry
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08-14-2007, 05:14 PM
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Rivet Master 
1956 22' Safari
2015 27' Flying Cloud
Vintage Kin Owner
Conifer/Evergreen
, Colorado
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 12,704
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Betcha Gilligan didn't have this...
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08-14-2007, 05:29 PM
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Rivet Master
Currently Looking...
West of Fort Worth
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 6,699
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Nor did he have as much fun...
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08-14-2007, 05:37 PM
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Rivet Master
1964 22' Safari
SACRAMENTO
, California
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 11,563
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Originally Posted by InsideOut
Betcha Gilligan didn't have this...
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Hi Shari,
This is the closest we've been to boondocking!
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08-14-2007, 06:14 PM
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Rivet Master
1956 22' Safari
2015 27' Flying Cloud
Vintage Kin Owner
Conifer/Evergreen
, Colorado
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 12,704
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That looks pretty nice too...
Shari 
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08-14-2007, 06:17 PM
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Retired.
Currently Looking...
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Join Date: Jun 2003
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Originally Posted by InsideOut
Betcha Gilligan didn't have this...
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They did, it was just all made from coconuts. 
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Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy, and taste good with ketchup.
Terry
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08-14-2007, 06:54 PM
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3 Rivet Member 
2003 25' Classic
Birmingham
, Alabama
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 121
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I discussed this a bit in my blog yesterday. I love boondocking!
Boondocking sites are not only cheaper, they are usually much more private.
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08-14-2007, 08:53 PM
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Rivet Master
1956 22' Flying Cloud
Venice
, California
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 672
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Originally Posted by Sean Michael
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isn't that an oxymoron?
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david
*by asking the above question,
i verify that i have already used
the search feature to the best of my ability...
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08-14-2007, 09:28 PM
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3 Rivet Member
2003 25' Classic
Birmingham
, Alabama
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 121
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Originally Posted by urbanfood
isn't that an oxymoron?
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Not necessarily, since some campgrounds are not of the "boondocking" variety...and many boondocking sites are not contained within actual campgrounds. 
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08-14-2007, 09:47 PM
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"Cloudsplitter"
2003 25' Classic
Houstatlantavegas
, Malebolgia
Join Date: Jun 2007
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Your Right
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Not necessarily, since some campgrounds are not of the "boondocking" variety...and many boondocking sites are not contained within actual campgrounds. |
Right-on<><>we've been known ta "dock" right here!!
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08-15-2007, 08:19 AM
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Liberator
1972 Argosy 24
1989 34.5' Airstream 345
Heart of Dixie
, Alabama
Join Date: Sep 2006
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So Typical
Find you a nice roomy spot,
and dang it if everyone does not come croud in !
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08-15-2007, 08:35 AM
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Rivet Master
1956 22' Safari
2015 27' Flying Cloud
Vintage Kin Owner
Conifer/Evergreen
, Colorado
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 12,704
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Un-Rally
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Originally Posted by klattu
Find you a nice roomy spot,
and dang it if everyone does not come croud in !
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You're right...but we are friends - not strangers and it was by choice! There were twelve of us total...including 2 SOBs and a sheepherders wagon.
Shari
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08-15-2007, 10:16 AM
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calitrotter
Currently Looking...
Berkeley
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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highway 1 between half moon bay and santa cruz
these are a couple a spots we had last weekend..
not good for setting up outside, but for a movie and bedtime it was fine.
also the price was right..
i suppose there is an element of risk, with traffic and all.
perhaps, we will do better next time.
i was told that one can legally park overnight in a pullout.
maybe that is for the cal highways...
the third pic is from earlier this month, north of bodega bay, wrights beach.
we had to park near the kiosk, as we were part of the overflow
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1963 Globetrotter OHIO
1988 Ford E150 Sportsmobile
2001 Buell X1 Lightning
2002 Isuzu Axiom 4x2
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01-05-2009, 12:53 PM
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2 Rivet Member 
Currently Looking...
Currently Looking...
springfield
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Join Date: Nov 2008
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, or put up with the mutt that to him is "man's best friend" but is just a barking machine to meWaynon  |
ah, i feel your pain. i like dogs well enough, but cannot abide a nuisance barker. 
back on topic. the idea of boondocking sounds just lovely. i like the idea of being 'off the grid' as it were. would that i could live this way for a bit, but it's not a reality that could be possible for me, for a multitude of reasons.
anyone ever hear of the cartoon 'boondocks'? i love it and even own a book of said comic strip...
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01-22-2009, 12:22 PM
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3 Rivet Member
2006 25' Safari
orlando
, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 156
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Why Boondock?
Because that's where things are to see that you would never know were there.
Here is a place in NM. So walk through the canyons centuries later, wake and walk a river of sand, stretching and ducking under branches and fallen trees. (Of course after a 15 minute blast of furnace, coffee, breakfast, read the paper on the can...Camping on the ground just isn't the same after an AS!).
We slept next to a bellowing breathing exhaling pumping breath of a natural gas well. It awoke always late at night to release thousands of strange slobbering dragons, or only one that stayed snapping at the gate. They disappeared in daylight. Reassured by the no smoking within the area where I was smoking sign, and my heater puffing away. I took somebody's advice and took a hike.
We went and looked at stones, rocks, trees clouds cabins wrecked cars cliffside dwellings and hikes, doing what we wanted to when and with who. It was pretty cool, and at night the clanking of the yaw under announced more dragons under pines and stars.
When the road ends the trail begins, may it always be full of dragons, trees stars and faithful companions to keep bears at bay.
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01-22-2009, 03:45 PM
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2 Rivet Member
1988 29' Excella
Hammond
, New York
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 43
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Hi,
We have also 'docked in the 'dacks. Last year we spent a weekend at Horseshoe Lake with the airstream. You have to do some research/exploring to find places. It is easier with a truck and tent as some places are untouchable with a trailer. You may find a place within a mile or less of a main road and be totally by yourself. RobertCross: Where were 'dockin in post #17??
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01-22-2009, 04:54 PM
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Rivet Master
1989 29' Land Yacht
Mesa
, Arizona
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 1,804
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Qaurtzsite az boondocking
 Come to Quartzsite AZ for a while in the winter and you can learn all the tricks of boondocking from the folks that boondock here by the thousands.
You can have a load of fun learn more than you want about solar power,batteries,way to haul water,way's to haul black and gray waters,way's to save power, way's to save water, way's to save $$$.This is long term or sort term boondocking school at its best.
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Live every day as if it is your last one and one day your going to be right.
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06-15-2009, 02:24 PM
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Worldturners
1976 31' Sovereign
San Antonio
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Join Date: Jun 2009
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Long-term Boondocking?
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Originally Posted by jimmini
Come to Quartzsite AZ for a while in the winter and you can learn all the tricks of boondocking from the folks that boondock here by the thousands.
You can have a load of fun learn more than you want about solar power,batteries,way to haul water,way's to haul black and gray waters,way's to save power, way's to save water, way's to save $$$.This is long term or sort term boondocking school at its best. |
These are exactly the questions I have. Our family is considering going off grid, but is it really practical and do-able in a city?
We are going full-time in our AS in about a month, and right now it is totally gutted! We're freaking out a little, because it's crunch time.
We should be camped in one spot for the next year on an Air Force Base in sweltering S. Texas. Is it financially feasible to live w/o electricity w/o our young children dying of heat exhaustion? I've heard solar panels are expensive and need to be replaced fairly often.
How long do batteries last with average use? How are they recharged?
How does one shower, etc. without water hookup? Where do you take your waste water?
Do you use a composting toilet? Where do you dump your waste?
Where do you dump your trash?
Since we can't make it to Quartzsite anytime soon, could you tell us any of the secrets you have learned?
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12-06-2009, 11:50 AM
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2 Rivet Member
1974 27' Overlander
1966 17' Caravel
in
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Join Date: Dec 2009
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We are a family of boonRockers!!!Rock on and dance to your drum beat!
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