Boondocking
I commonly show pictures of my camper mostly off by myself, which is where I like to boondock. And it's not because I'm antisocial; I just don't want to listen to other people’s music, their noisy pets, and their contractor generators. I will stay where I have to stay, but I prefer to stay where it's peaceful and quiet. However, the pictures I will be showing when I’m in Quartzsite will be to emphasize the number of boondockers in the Quartzsite area, hopefully giving some insight into the popularity of boondocking.
Most RVers stay in pay campgrounds, such as commercial campgrounds and state parks, where everyone is hooked up to water, electricity, and black and gray water dump, with a convenient dumpster nearby for their trash. So, how they live is not much different than how they would live in an apartment, which is very normal, and that is why most people prefer to live that way. And at those locations where they are all packed together, it's easy to see how many normal RVers are staying there. But with boondockers, it’s not so easy because we tend to spread out.
But those people, especially the ones that live in commercial RV parks, seldom come in contact with boondockers because boondockers, by their very nature, are usually camped off in the woods or the desert where they don’t often come in contact with a lot of their fellow RVers, in less they want to. So Quartzsite is a good area to show that there are more boondocker's around than you might think; you just seldom see large groups of them together.... That is until there in Quartzsite, where being together for a short while is considered good.
As I mentioned, there are RV parks in Quartzsite where you can stay with full hookups. If I show any of those, I will label them as hookup areas, but mostly, I intend to show boondockers in their natural environment, and there's no better time to do that than during the Quartzsite Big Show since the boondockers tend to be clustered together more than they normally would when the Big Show is not going on.
So, while I’m at Quartzsite, I would like everyone to look at the pictures not as a bunch of RVs in one place but as every RV you see is boondocking. They have their water and holding tanks, they make all their electricity, and they can comfortably boondock for long periods of time.
Nobody is forced to come here; they do it because they love it and enjoy being around other boondockers; after all, other boondockers are who they have the most in common with, and, most of all, they enjoy the challenge and freedom of coming and going wherever and whenever they feel like it.
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