We traveled around the Yuma Lakes Campground in our Suzuki toad looking for a boondock area for February 15 when our 14-day limit is up in the campground. Our plans are to return to the campground for a week and then put the RV in storage and drive the toad to San Diego for a 15 day cruise to Hawaii. When we return to San Diego, I will board a plane for Iowa for my granddaughter Amanda’s wedding.
The ground around here is sandy, uneven and mountainous except for the flat areas with canals running through it. Large areas of lettuce, cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower are grown on the flat fields. Citrus and date groves flourish near the canals. It is amazing to see brown uneven ground on one side of the road while the other side of the road is irrigated and green.
A farmer, Loren Pratt, built a little church with six one-person pews in memory of his wife Lois. Inside the church is a framed prayer, “I especially thank you for my wife, Lois. She has been a true helpmate as we farmed and raised a family together. I pray that many others will use this church to count the blessings you have given them.”
In past years we have pulled off the road just outside the campground and boondocked for our week out in the area called Gilligan’s Island but this year the area seems to be under new jurisdiction and RVers stay for months on the same spot. It is crowded.
We drove to a long term area where people pay the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) to stay for up to 7 months. This costs $180 a year. You do not get electricity but can fetch clean water and dump your black water. Some people use a lot of ingenuity to provide power. In the picture, this man uses wind power, solar power and even has a solar oven and fire pit. Others make sun shields and extend their living in their patios. The little RV attached to this RV is either to provide a guest room or more likely is a hobby/storage area.
The area we found that is nice to boondock in is 7 miles from our campground in an area called Mittry Lake. The time you can RV there is limited to 10 days a calendar year. You can park near the water and see palm trees. A ruby hummingbird flew to greet us in the area of this tree. Can you find it? We couldn’t either but bought a hummingbird feeder so maybe we will get lucky enough to see it again. If we are fast enough we may even get to photograph it.
The ground around here is sandy, uneven and mountainous except for the flat areas with canals running through it. Large areas of lettuce, cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower are grown on the flat fields. Citrus and date groves flourish near the canals. It is amazing to see brown uneven ground on one side of the road while the other side of the road is irrigated and green.
A farmer, Loren Pratt, built a little church with six one-person pews in memory of his wife Lois. Inside the church is a framed prayer, “I especially thank you for my wife, Lois. She has been a true helpmate as we farmed and raised a family together. I pray that many others will use this church to count the blessings you have given them.”
In past years we have pulled off the road just outside the campground and boondocked for our week out in the area called Gilligan’s Island but this year the area seems to be under new jurisdiction and RVers stay for months on the same spot. It is crowded.
We drove to a long term area where people pay the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) to stay for up to 7 months. This costs $180 a year. You do not get electricity but can fetch clean water and dump your black water. Some people use a lot of ingenuity to provide power. In the picture, this man uses wind power, solar power and even has a solar oven and fire pit. Others make sun shields and extend their living in their patios. The little RV attached to this RV is either to provide a guest room or more likely is a hobby/storage area.
The area we found that is nice to boondock in is 7 miles from our campground in an area called Mittry Lake. The time you can RV there is limited to 10 days a calendar year. You can park near the water and see palm trees. A ruby hummingbird flew to greet us in the area of this tree. Can you find it? We couldn’t either but bought a hummingbird feeder so maybe we will get lucky enough to see it again. If we are fast enough we may even get to photograph it.
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