Camp out in the desert for months without hookups to save camping fees?
I don't think I could. Seems like a lot of work to save $35/night.
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Camp out in the desert for months without hookups to save camping fees?
I don't think I could. Seems like a lot of work to save $35/night.
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Roughing it for me is called the Westin.....................lmao.
From dust to dust.
They are just checking out what the future holds for them.
They have dump trucks bringing fresh water and picking up black out there so why not. Old people don't shower everyday anyway.
I don't think its $35 they're saving, probably more like double that. And they don't have a noisy neighbor 6 feet away.
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I used to think it was bizarre to see them all, now it's kinda alluring :)
The noisy neighbor thing I totally get. And since you can't find a park with 100' sites I guess I would consider that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ziggy
It's hard for me to dry camp for 2 nights. I just can't imagine 4 months [emoji16]
Fire up the genny and turn on the DirecTV you'll hardly know that you are in the sticks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hotboat
Until the shitter overrunneth [emoji16][emoji15]Quote:
Originally Posted by Ziggy
I only dry camp if I have to and 4 days is about all I can last without needing water. Dry camping just to save money hell no. lol
Cougar Buttes.
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Wouldn't do it for months but days is ok. That is why we got a moho, way more comfy than a hotel, you feel more at home. You cn alwys find a place to dump and take on water.
Very disturbing. I can do two showers a day easily.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChumpChange
When you lose partial or full control of your holding tank and pipe valves due to age, I'm thinking 3-4 showers a day, if not for you for the people who have to sit downwind of you.
I need to throw up now. Brb
When I first saw this I thought it was going to be a "would you Jennifer Aniston" and I was going to have to say hell yea.
For some its not a issue of the $35/day, its just being away/off the grid/away from everything-everyone... Just because you can...
I like it BUT if I was going to do it for a long time I think now a solar oven and a PV panel/battery for a radio may be in order...
I would be fine with a woodstove-campfire/someplace to catch some fish... Kerosene lantern...
My dad, 80 yrs old, boggles my wife/kids mind when he tells about growing up in the country (not far from LOTO) with no electric/water/bathtub/bathroom... AND growing/rasing all of their own food... My father wired his parents house with a kit from Sears & Robuck when he was 16, one light bulb per room...Quote:
Originally Posted by Hotboat
My grandpa, on his deathbed (mid 80's) looked up at the ceiling and pointed to the A.C. vent... He said to me "that was the downfall of mankind", he didn't know his own wife OR kids but I think he knew what he was trying to communicate to me...
My gramps farmed with mules, built barns for a living, hauled lumber that his father would saw with their steam saw mill, used his mule teams to haul out logs that his brothers would fell to clear farm ground and create pasture... He liked dynomite to remove stumps, split oak logs for fence rails/posts (treated the bottoms with a barrel of creosote)... Raised all of his own beef and didn't care much for pork, cut hay and grew/mixed his own cattle feed...
Built 5 houses (not counting my uncles home (that lives on the farm still)) on his farm (his last at 80yrs of age) and sold them off after he would build a new one...
My grandpa's pride, his barn with his black baldies...
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He was a real tough nut...
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I bet he smelled like a goat at the end of the day, wearing his union suit over his bibs, long sleeve shirt/Tshirt all buttoned/zipped up to his chin... In the sweltering Missouri heat/humidity... :action-smiley-035:
Wow, not surprised!!! Always great stories, Bruce!
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Sorry for going totally sideways on yall... :)
To Vic's original question, yes I would and not to save the $... I would just for fun... :thumb:
Hell yeah but not in the desert with all those noisy neighbors.
6 days easy...... sponge bath the chick and me and the Shepherd jumped in the (cold) lake.
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Nice setup there Johnny. I'd find a way to make do with that view as well. Quartzsite on the other hand.......
They don't make folks like that anymore, our parents we bad azzes, great story.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2manymustangs