Whom Of Us Boondocks 14-days Or More At A Stretch?

Nah I like jabbing the administrators when they get overly ******** or **** or ********** or ******* or ******* with censoring.

Go and edit your post and spell it "ret*ard", we'll know what you mean, as in to slow down or prevent.

The word is REE-TARD, like a BRAKE REE-TARDER. Your "politically correct" crew is obviously bouncing off the walls on steroids.

Thank you. I am selfish. I am stealing every good hint I read here :)

I used to fill a California King water bed mattress knowing there was chemicals inside to ****** algae and plankton. Made great shower and dishwashing water. I carried a 55 gal drum of R/O water. Sterilized with ozone then plugged.

Now, Quicksilver has a 100 and a 20 gal freshwater tank. But a 90 was the biggest black and gray water tank I could find 33 years ago.

We have sometimes boondocked for a couple of weeks at a time, but we can only go a week without having to go to a dump station. So I don't know if that qualifies as "two weeks at a stretch."

And within the last year, we have not fired up the generator at all (except at home, for monthly maintenance). Our portable 120 watt solar panel tops us off every day. Of course, being as we are out west, we have not hit a long stretch of cloudy weather.

And I have to say, Mex, that I am sure glad that you are doing well and posting your usual vivid comments!

I spent the winter in Quartzsite - 93 days without hookups. No generator, but 355 watts of solar, a pair of 6V 232 amp hour batteries, & an inverter so I could make a pot of coffee & toast in the mornings...

I have been retired for 11 years now and dry camp 95% of the time. I am more of a traveler like Alaska, Canada, out west for 3 months in summer, and SW or Fla for 3 months in the winter, I like to move around rather than stay in one spot. Locally I fish for 3-4 days in SP's with no generator charging. I have 2 6v GC batteries and minimal electric reqs, so batteries last 7 days before reaching 50% SOC with no generator usage and no solar. Battery power has never been my limiting factor, it has always been water. I only have a 60 gal tank so after 7 days I need water, clean clothes, and my wife wants to wash the bedding. I have a 180 amp alternator so I get some charging between campsites(although not much). I don't go more than 2 weeks without fully charging my batteries at an electrical site with laundry facilities.

In the beginning, before I started doing much surfing on Woodall's, most of it was trial and error. I killed my POS group 24 Wallyworld pseudomorph'd "deep cycle" battery in about 4 or 5 trips with that miserable WFCO that came with my TT.

First power hogs to go were all the incandescent lights in my 2012 21 Gazelle, replaced with LED's. Then a portable 120W suitcase solar panel, since sold to Profdante139, as I needed 150W for my usage patterns. Then a salvaged free T-1275. Reformed and desulphated that. That battery I used until it finally pooped out on me during a shower, after 500-600 cycles first living in a golf cart in So California, where every day is a good golf day, weather wise. Summer kills golf cart batteries.

Somewhere in there, mexicowanderer found the Megawatt switching power supply unit, suggested it as an adjustable manual adjustable voltage charging unit. I was the guinea pig, the first to buy and try one. It works. It flat out works, with the way I have it cobbled together. It's retired my WFCO. It works better than almost anything else out there, in it's price range, for recharging your batteries while boondocking.

The off brand TV was a 5 amp power hog, "Konka" so that was replace with a state of the art 1080p energy miser 14V powered 23" Samsung that draws 18 to 22 Watts, max.

What was most helpful for me was finding the time on here, to read, to find what has worked for other folks, in similar situations. You don't have to love the dry salty characters here to at least listen and read what they've put down. Even veterans like RJfishing gets creative with great solutions worth reading. Do a search, you'd be amazed at all the tricks of the trade you'll find in here.

I've found dougrainer down in TX to be a top source of info anything refrigerator and A/C related, when it comes to problems in those areas. Read, and learn to trust those that consistently post and have good solutions almost all the time.

The rest of you all know who you are... if you've helped me in any way, I have probably at some time sent you a PM and personally thanked you for your outstanding suggestions in helping me find my way along as a newbie. Boondocking is an addictive way of life. It recharges my brains batteries, it's very relaxing, and I've met some awesome acquaintances and friends along the way while doing it.

Every winter for the last 11 years we has dry camped, on a Beach in Baja, for 4 months at a time. Have 270 watts of solar and 4 6 volt batteries and 2000 watt inverter. Only use the gen set for the micro wave, DW's hair dryer and the rare run of several days of cloudy weather. Haul water from town and pump it into the MH. We have a santi dump and I use a portable dump tank. A little work but you can not beat the location.

I have set for up to two weeks because even if we had 3 months of supplies. we would still have to move every two weeks per the rules.