Boondocking Adventure Us

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately."
           — Henry David Thoreau

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House Has Wheels
For Sale: Best Offer

RV Solar Panels
Installing Solar Panels

Magnum Inverter
Electric System

Lifeline Batteries
Battery Bank

Palmer Energy Systems
Help from John Palmer

Generator
Powerplant Generator

Datastorm of Florida
Satellite Internet

Laptop Computers
Fully Operational Battlestation

Big Cypress, Florida
Big Cypress National Preserve

Fisheaing Creek, Florida
Fisheating Creek

Gator in the Campsite
Gator in the Campsite

Panther Pond Campground
Panther Pond Campground

Gator in the Road
Gator in the Road

Okaloacoochee Slough
Okaloacoochee Slough

PalmViewSchool-Cemetery
Only in Florida

Weedon Island
Weedon Island

Mangrove Trail
Mangrove Trail

Scooter
Scooter Maneuver

Spaceship
The Spaceship

Spaceship of the Imagination
The Writer's Studio

Tiny Frog
Tiny Frog

Rattlesnake
Rattlesnake Road

Faceville Landing
Faceville Landing

Recovery
Recovery

Coheelee Creek
Coheelee Creek

Coheelee Bridge
Coheelee Bridge

Rood Creek
Rood Creek

Cheaha Wilderness
Cheaha Wilderness

Appalachian Mountain flowers
Appalachian Flowers

Pinhoti Trail
Pinhoti Trail

Alabama
Hiker's Rest

Blue Mountain
Blue Mountain

Highway 281
Highway 281

Abel, Alabama
Abel, Alabama

Morgans Landing
Morgan's Landing

Tombigbee Turtle
Tombigbee Turtle

Egypt Mississippi
Forgotten Memories

Chewalla Lake, Mississippi
Chewalla Lake

Lone Pine Campground
Lone Pine Campground

Wren Nest
Wren's Nest

Arkansas Ozarks
Arkansas Ozarks

Ozark Flood
Crossing the River

Hercules-Glades Wilderness
Hercules-Glades Wilderness

The Prairie of Coy Bald
Prairie of Coy Bald

Devils Den
Devil's Den

White Squirrel
The White Squirrel is Cunning

Chanute, Kansas
Chanute, Kansas

Downtown Chanute
Downtown Chanute

Outsider Art, Kansas
Piedmont, Kansas

Prairie Campsite
Prairie Campsite

Chase State Fishing Lake
Chase State Fishing Lake

Geese
Geese

Electric Night
Electric Night

The Great Plains
The Great Plains

Wilson Lake
Wilson Lake

King Cottonwood
King Cottonwood

Cheyenne Bottoms
Cheyenne Bottoms

Cottonwood Raccoon
Cottonwood Raccoon

Kansas Skies
Kansas Skies

Scott Lake State Park
Scott Lake State Park

Kansas Road
The Road to Infinity

Offroad Kansas
Offroad Kansas

Monument Rocks
Monument Rocks

Chalk Pyramids
Chalk Pyramids

Planet Kansas
Planet Kansas

cliff-swallows
Cliff Swallows

Prairie Pillar
Prairie Pillar

Kansas Sunset
The Keyhole

High Plains
High Plains

Paris Creek
Paris Creek, Colorado

Fourmile Creek
Fourmile Creek

The Crags
The Crags

Red Rocks
Red Rocks

Squeaky
Squeaky Must Be Saved

Wood Bird
Wood Bird

Waugh Mountain
Waugh Mountain

Rocks along the Bambi Trail
Bambi Trail

Sawatch Range
Sawatch Range

Avery Peak
Avery Peak

Demaree Canyon
Demeree Canyon

Baxter Pass
Baxter Pass

Unfortunate
The Unfortunate

Escape
Eascape from Baxter Pass

Roan Cliffs Fire
Roan Cliffs Fire

Rope Canyon
Rope Canyon

Buckhorn Canyon
Buckhorn Canyon

Wyoming Wildflowers
Wyoming

Red Top Mountain
Red Top Mountain

Lost River Range
Lost River Range

Chicken Out Ridge
Chicken Out Ridge

Grandjean Sawtooth
Grandjean Sawtooths

Sawtooth Wilderness
Sawtooth Wilderness

Sawtooth Lake Trail
Sawtooth Lake Trail

Robinson Park
Robinson Park

Pears
Pears in the Park

Campfire Spot
Campfire Spot

Cavendish
Cavendish, Idaho

LeBaron Park
LeBaron Park

Selway Bitterroot Wilderness
Selway Bitterroot Wilderness

Clearwater Mountains
Clearwater Mountains

Bitterroot Mountains
Bitterroot Mountains

Ladybug Hordes
Ladybug Hordes

Ladybug Mountain
Ladybug Mountains

Rainbow
Rainbow in the Bitterroots

Old Growth Cedars
Old Growth Cedar

Moose
Moose in the Meefee

White Sands Campground
White Sands Campground

First Snow
Lolo Pass

West of the Palouse
West of the Palouse

Washington Fall Colors
Autumn in Washington

Mount Rainier
Mount Ranier

Onalaska
Onalaska

Moscow Moose
Moose in the Morning

Oberlin
Oberlin, Kansas

Ice Tree
Snows in Kansas

Cawker City
World's Largest Ball of Twine

Ball of Twine
The Sum of Our Amibitions



Photos

Drew

Faith

Photos


This is the story about an idea. We thought it was a crazy idea when we saw this photosad $1,000 RV for sale: we’d buy it, fix it up, make it self-sufficient, sell or give away all of our posessions, and live in the wilds. A crazy idea to step away from the fake problems of this rat race we’re recruited into. Perhaps even a stupid idea.

But with the economy going down and taking gas prices with it, we decided that sometimes crazy ideas have a way of balancing out in the end. So we’ve sold photoour cars and invested the cash into our RV and photothe equipment that would make it work.

This is a story about making our way under spacious skies. About finding our own manifest destiny.

Our boondocking adventure across America.

Nature


Travel Log

April 15, 2009
All of our equipment is installed and tested: photosatellite, modem, photosolar panels, photo generator, holding tanks, water pump, refrigerator, heat furnace, water heater, new tires, a scooter rack, and, of course, the photoscooter. We've got our hoses, gas treatment (for ethanol gas), gas cans, tools, storage bins, backpacks, and compass. We've changed our tags, licenses, and addresses. We've got the maps. We've got a full tank of gas, a touch of butterflies, and a twitchy pedal foot. Awaiting Sunday, our decided launch date.

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