Ridiculously extreme boondocking tips
If you have both unlimited power and water, stop reading -- you don’t need these tips. And if you are still reading, you already know the obvious things -- switch to LED lights, use paper plates ...
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Len, that really is a good question -- the answer is that every few days, DW wants to see what is behind all of my gray stubble!
Actually, even though shaving at home is just a chore (gotta go to work, gotta look semi-presentable), shaving (once in a while) in the middle of absolutely nowhere is (strangely) a pleasure -- just like having cocktails every evening with three real ice cubes made in our tiny freezer, sitting in our lounge chairs at the edge of nothingness.
Unlike backpacking, we feel that boondocking in an RV is all about the paradox of luxury in a very remote place -- the juxtaposition of a fine Zinfandel sipped while coyotes howl in the canyon below us, or Starbucks coffee on a rainy morning.
Obviously, we can't take this luxury thing too far -- no long hot showers, that's for sure. But when people shudder at the privations we endure in order to camp on the edge, they are missing the whole point. This is about fun, not about suffering!
Actually, even though shaving at home is just a chore (gotta go to work, gotta look semi-presentable), shaving (once in a while) in the middle of absolutely nowhere is (strangely) a pleasure -- just like having cocktails every evening with three real ice cubes made in our tiny freezer, sitting in our lounge chairs at the edge of nothingness.
Unlike backpacking, we feel that boondocking in an RV is all about the paradox of luxury in a very remote place -- the juxtaposition of a fine Zinfandel sipped while coyotes howl in the canyon below us, or Starbucks coffee on a rainy morning.
Obviously, we can't take this luxury thing too far -- no long hot showers, that's for sure. But when people shudder at the privations we endure in order to camp on the edge, they are missing the whole point. This is about fun, not about suffering!
