Is 50 gallons of fresh water enough for boondocking?
Is 50 gallons of fresh water enough for boondocking? I wonder how long that would last. It seems that the smaller rigs have a smaller water capacity.
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For what it's worth, when I was a kid (11 years old to 14 years old... I'm 63 now), my parents had their Phoenix Travel Trailer (18 feet long), parked at a primitive campground, except for an occasional trip, it sat there all Summer long.
It only had a long extension cord that plugged into a power outlet like one inside your home. No water. Water was supplied by a single hand pump and no running toilets. There were 2 sets of out-houses, and DO I remember the stink.
We survived all Summer under these conditions for a few years in a row. Shower/bathing was never an issue for us kids especially. We swam in the adjacent river so much, we never had time to stink. Well, we might have smelled like the old river, but everything else did too. So body odes was never a problem.
Looking back on those days, it sure was simple. Get a bucket of water from the old hand pump, carry it about 1/3 of mile to our campsite, and of course... parents made us kids do that, and that bucket lasted all day long.
Strange how times have changed. I love my air-conditioning now!
It only had a long extension cord that plugged into a power outlet like one inside your home. No water. Water was supplied by a single hand pump and no running toilets. There were 2 sets of out-houses, and DO I remember the stink.
We survived all Summer under these conditions for a few years in a row. Shower/bathing was never an issue for us kids especially. We swam in the adjacent river so much, we never had time to stink. Well, we might have smelled like the old river, but everything else did too. So body odes was never a problem.
Looking back on those days, it sure was simple. Get a bucket of water from the old hand pump, carry it about 1/3 of mile to our campsite, and of course... parents made us kids do that, and that bucket lasted all day long.
Strange how times have changed. I love my air-conditioning now!
