Future plans
As I figured, I didn't go anywhere again today. There's some cloudy, rainy weather coming in on Wednesday and Thursday, so I figured I would get back to a less mountainous area, Parker and Quartzsite, where it's flatter and there's less chance of flash floods.
So my new plans, if you could call them plans, are I will head south tomorrow morning, stopping at the London Bridge and taking a few pictures, and then going on into Parker or maybe even Quartzsite. Parker is about 45 minutes away from Havasu, and Quartzsite is another 45 minutes from Parker. All three are on Highway 95.
I'll stop at the Walmart in Parker and replenish my supplies, and I may or may not spend the night at the Bluewater casino in Parker, which is again possible since they made it free to stay in their parking lot as it always was. The problem is, even though they have a humongous parking lot, they have roped off a somewhat small area for RVers to stay, so I was squished together with a bunch of other RVs, which is not the way I like to boondock, but it is free, so I can't complain.
Parker has a really beautiful place to boondock about seven or eight miles outside of town called the Shea Road boondocking area. It's a great place when you're there, but the dirt road getting out there is wash-boarded, beat up, and in horrible condition. I think Shea Road goes through Indian land since parts of Parker, if not the whole place, are on Indian land, hence the Bluewater Indian casino.
So that's what I think I will do, but I never know for sure because I don't tell myself what I will do until the last minute, so it's always a surprise.
Theboondork
Sunrise at the Lone Tree boondocking area.
I love to see mud on the tires of an RV. It often shows that they are serious boondocker's…or in my case it shows that I’m too lazy to wash my truck.
A neighbor pulled in with this fine travel trailer for sale. Always on the lookout for an RV bargain, I took some pictures just in case he sold it before I could find my checkbook.
It does look like it's been ridden hard and put to bed wet, but I don't get put off by the details. The tires don't look like they're both pointed in exactly the same direction, but that probably helps it turn quicker. The live-aboard part of the trailer doesn't seem like it's pointed in the same direction as the tires, but that might be because it can't agree on what direction to go. I have that same problem.
I don't know if the tow vehicle comes with it, but I'm sure that would no doubt add to the expense because the tow vehicle has an entire fleamarket on its roof, which probably detracts from its gas mileage. But nobody cares about the gas mileage of an RV anyway. As the old saying goes, " It gets poor gas mileage for a vehicle but great mileage for a house."
Another view of this rolling treasure. Imagine rolling down the highway searching for adventure in whatever comes my way.... "Born to be Wild. "
Yes, the freedom of the open road, your home is wherever you park it, and by the looks of it, you'll be parking it a lot. But I don't worry about the looks, which applied to all my ex-girlfriends. It's what's inside that counts, but believe me, you don't want to look inside this trailer.
I was just about sold on this trailer when I found out the asking price exactly matched what I had in my checking account, which was $9.32. The only hangup was that I couldn't figure out how to hitch it up. There were not only the ball and chains I was used to, but somehow, there were cables, extensions, and Jack straps holding it to the tow vehicle.
So I had to pass it up, but I'm pretty sure since he's heading in the same direction as I am, this won't be the last time I pass it up.