inexpensive long-term stay in Sonora?
I'm thinking of going to Mexico this winter rather than the US as I'm getting dangerously close to spending enough time in the US as to have to file income tax there. :E Going to Mexico is really i...
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daveB110 wrote:
I now see that Rae has solar and I often wonder why more RV'ers do not. Heading farther south means more amps from the sun for the batteries and often a higher ambient air temp. These are a boondocker's great ally, together with propane.
They don't know much about solar. They don't know how to live on solar and propane without a generator and are not willing to learn, and they don't care about noise, smell and costs. Basically, they run a generator because they want to.
I stayed on camps in Baja in winter with mostly long-term residents, almost everybody had some solar on the roof and most people were running generators 5-6 hours a day. There was no rain, and very few partially cloudy days - on those cloudy days they were running it from dawn to dusk. Only 5%-10% were not running it at all, or so little that I didn't notice.
