Boondocking Tips
We've been living without hookups full-time for nearly 8 years, and I recently put together a blog post describing all the things we've learned about how to boondock happily and comfortably. I'm h...
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Hi Emily. You certainly misunderstand things. Again, I am all in favour of people finding ways of earning a living, or defray costs in what they are doing by using different funding sources. In fact the moderator of this forum, does exactly what you are doing, as does the other couple I mentioned earlier, Truck Camping Magazine. It is just being transparent about it. If you wish to have people come to your site for clicks and not share information here, as I have stated, there is nothing wrong with that.
But Dan saw exactly the issue boondockers like myself, ones that stay away from populated areas, have. My iPhone has a terrific app that can show where internet service is and I often try to route through those areas. Thus avoiding populated areas with good service. The issue is when pages are heavy with data, like large photos, or long streams of photos (58 photos in a single post). A boondocker's internet connection often times out, or either doesn't load the photos. The issue for many rural watchers is how Dan described, not having a high speed or Fiber Optic connection. In fact it took me 5 days to finally upload 28 photos and another article. So clicking and then getting to your page and then clicking again to the post is a challenge of patience, for remote boondockers. I could put heavier filters on, but I don't have an issue with your ADs or others I wish to support.
Emily, again, your page is great and I sent 2 people, last night, links to your blog and will continue to recommend it. As I too share and write about boondocking and fulltiming. I just don't have the patience and discipline needed to do a Blog/Web page to the quality of yours. I choose to provide content to others to publish and or post. I share often how important it is to prepare and have a revenue source for doing an adventure such as yours, before they start and sell everything. We are doing very different things and I for one look forward to learning more from you and Mark. I am all for helping those people, like Mello Mike, the White's and now, you and Mark, create some return in furthering your adventure. You are right, you two have put a lot of work into the postings, found on your blog. I was just hoping you might wish to share here too, on RV.net. But you've answered that.
You are correct in the satisfaction that is gained in helping others, especially in furthering ones dreams of fulltiming, as there is in the satisfaction of learning from others.
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But Dan saw exactly the issue boondockers like myself, ones that stay away from populated areas, have. My iPhone has a terrific app that can show where internet service is and I often try to route through those areas. Thus avoiding populated areas with good service. The issue is when pages are heavy with data, like large photos, or long streams of photos (58 photos in a single post). A boondocker's internet connection often times out, or either doesn't load the photos. The issue for many rural watchers is how Dan described, not having a high speed or Fiber Optic connection. In fact it took me 5 days to finally upload 28 photos and another article. So clicking and then getting to your page and then clicking again to the post is a challenge of patience, for remote boondockers. I could put heavier filters on, but I don't have an issue with your ADs or others I wish to support.
Emily, again, your page is great and I sent 2 people, last night, links to your blog and will continue to recommend it. As I too share and write about boondocking and fulltiming. I just don't have the patience and discipline needed to do a Blog/Web page to the quality of yours. I choose to provide content to others to publish and or post. I share often how important it is to prepare and have a revenue source for doing an adventure such as yours, before they start and sell everything. We are doing very different things and I for one look forward to learning more from you and Mark. I am all for helping those people, like Mello Mike, the White's and now, you and Mark, create some return in furthering your adventure. You are right, you two have put a lot of work into the postings, found on your blog. I was just hoping you might wish to share here too, on RV.net. But you've answered that.
You are correct in the satisfaction that is gained in helping others, especially in furthering ones dreams of fulltiming, as there is in the satisfaction of learning from others.
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