Dale Shops - I Veg

  Quartzsite, Arizona, United States
Saturday, January 10, 2009

Boondocking takes practice and gaining lots of tips on how to preserve water, volts and not filling up the holding tanks. Boondocking is when you take your RV out and park it withouth hooking up to electricity, water or sewer. One does this to help the pocket book and spending any part of the income an RVer lives on. There is even a BOF of Escapees that boondock always. Some members brag that they have NEVER hooked up to anything. Dale and I have boondocked many times in short spurts. Now we are trying it for 14 days. Things that we are doing is gathering up the clean water that comes out of the spout while we wait for the hot water to start. We then use this in cooking and washing dishes. We take either birdie baths (we called them spit baths) or get in the shower and catch all the shower water in a oil pan Dale purchased. This water is put in the toliet instead of using the fresh water. Doing dishes can be a challenge, but we catch all the waste water in a dish pan and toss it in the bushes. We do have a generator that we use to charge up the batteries. Solar is in our dreams right now. We have an inverter that we can fire up the computers, internet and TV. But I need the generator to dry my hair or use my curling iron. We have two LP gas heaters we use so don't have to turn on the furnace. So far, we are going okay. An adventure!

Today, Dale and I ran to the tents to pick up our badges and get some breakfast. At Too Crazy Ladies Dale found out he had forgotten his wallet - AGAIN! I had some cash so we went off to find breakfast.

Having Breakfast out

We found one that had delicious food. One has to be careful on which tent to pick for food! If you get my drift.

After breakfast, Dale went to check out a TV arm to put on our internet dish and I walked to the local market. There are two markets in this town. Well, we call markets like the Mom and Pop down the street. This store was just a little bigger than one of those, but not big enough to call a food store. I bought some bread. 
                                                                                                

Jim and Alona visit

 Dale and I returned home and I decided to stay here and he went off shopping. I knitted and took a nap. The wind has come up, about 25 mph and it was cool. Friends of our came all the way from Southern California and visited for a couple of hours. It was good to see them but Morgan got a lovely surprise. River and Harley, two Jack Russells she fell in love with this summer came too. They ran all around our area barking and having fun.

Tonight was dinner provided by the hosts of the rally and everyone brought a side dish. It was windy and we had to bunch up and pull an RV up for a wind breaker. Yet, with all that, we ate and ran back to our rigs. This weather sure puts a damper on a good party.

Friday Night Dinner

So here we are, me in my pj's and Dale working on his web site watching TV and listening to the wind whistling around us, rocking and rolling the rig. It will be a wild sleep tonight.