Why do I bother making plans?
The answer to that question is easy. I make plans, so I have something to write about in my blog. If it weren’t for my blog, I wouldn’t care where I was going until I set my GPS for my destination. But I love my blog, and I hate to miss a day of writing, so I will probably keep on making these plans. Just understand that they often have little to no effect on when or where I end up.
The wind has once again jumped up and bit me on my nether regions. And that is why I seldom make plans more than a day in advance, and even that is usually too early.
The wind in the West is a problem for travelers in large vehicles, which are easily affected by wind gusts. Semi-trucks and RVs are the usual victims, especially RVs because they have large expanses of walls for the wind to act on and not much weight to hold them down to the road.
If I had a reason for being somewhere, today's wind wouldn't be enough to affect me, but I was leaving just to be going, and it really doesn't much matter what day that is, so I'll shoot for tomorrow.
Meanwhile, I'm looking forward to being back in Quartzsite. There are many good things about the town, especially its proximity to other towns that are interesting to visit. With plenty of boondocking available, “Q” makes a handy winter temporary home base because other towns in the area are fun to visit...
If you go south, it’s only about 90 miles to Yuma, a good, and usually warm place to boondock.
If you go north in about an hour and a half, you'll be in Lake Havasu, with lots of boondocking and interesting things to see.
If you keep driving through Lake Havasu for about 75 miles, you will be in Laughlin, Nevada, where you can boondock in the casino parking lots.
If you head east for about 90 miles, you can be in Wickenburg, Arizona, another place that I'm very fond of. It has plenty of state trust lands to boondock on, and they are very proud of their cowboy ambiance.
Of course, if you head west out of Quartzsite, you'll end up in California, a state I gave up on many, many years ago.
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When I walked outside this morning, I almost fell over, the mountains in the background looked like they had snow on them, and it took me a while to figure out that they didn’t. It was just some tricks the sun and clouds were playing on my old eyes.
Sunrise at the Lone Tree BLM dispersed camping area a few miles north of Lake Havasu
Sunrise on the boondocker’s down in the “hole”.
Its not as early as it looks, it takes a while for the sun to get up over the mountains.
But its not as bad as Rock Hound state Park in New Mexico. Rock hound is right at the foot of the mountains so it’s almost lunchtime before the sun gets up over the mountains.
I’m thinking I see more vans boondocking than last year, and there was a lot last year. but that doesn’t mean there popular, it just means that far and away most people that buy RVs stay in RV parks, and I very seldom see those folks, and people that enjoy boondocking prefer smaller, more agile RVs such as vans.