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Post by dragonfly on Jun 12, 2012 7:39:11 GMT -5
For those of you that want to make your travel funds go further there is always boondocking. National forests, WalMarts are just a few. There is even a site that matches people like me that host boondockers as well as boondock themselves. Boondocking is free. www.boondockerswelcome.com If you are in the Dayton Ohio area, visit me. boondockerswelcome.com/users/dragonflyDragonfly |
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Post by cowcharge on Jun 12, 2012 8:46:48 GMT -5
Good point. I have a hard time visualizing a Walmart as "boondocking" though, hehe.
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Post by LittleVintageTrailer on Jun 12, 2012 9:04:34 GMT -5
Wow, what a great site and concept!
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Post by Redwings on Jun 12, 2012 10:56:40 GMT -5
Dragonfly,
Nice little profile you have put up there. I wish I was going to Ohio so I could take up your offer of hospitality. And I like chickens!
I've "boondocked" in a Walmart. Once. In Spokane, WA. I especially enjoyed the joyriding donut-squealing cars at 2:00 am. But at least those parking lot security lights illuminated everything inside and out.
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Post by harrison429 on Jun 12, 2012 17:43:44 GMT -5
Tool cool dragonfly...I too wish we were headed your way. I'll keep it in mind.  |
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Post by lilbobcat on Jun 12, 2012 23:36:24 GMT -5
I love boondocking! If on a long trip anywhere, my husband and I always try to find a place. Mainly at Walmarts. It makes me think of that movie, Where is Heart Is, with Natalie Portman. She lives in a Walmart for weeks and eventually has her baby there too.
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Post by cowcharge on Jun 13, 2012 2:25:20 GMT -5
If anyone's going to the Grand Canyon, you can boondock just north of the North Rim on the Kaibab Plateau for free, miles of ranger roads and dense forest to hide in, with pretty little alpine meadows scattered about between ridges. So much Ponderosa Pine laying on the ground that you don't have to look more than 20 feet away from your fire for fuel (you can practically light it with a match, too). I tent camped there back in '03 in my little Subaru Impreza, it was gorgeous. Although I did feel the need to change campsites right after finishing setting up, as I noticed a big tree with all the bark stripped off the bottom 8 feet, and large piles of poop...
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Post by dragonfly on Jun 13, 2012 5:27:03 GMT -5
I have always boondocked. One can camp longer this way. Things have changed over the years. If allowed to have a fire, you may need a permit from the forestry service. Easy to get but you may face a fine without one.
Moving camp was a wise choice cowcharge.
For you hunters and experienced boondockers out here, do you know what "lighter knot" is?
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Post by cowcharge on Jun 14, 2012 1:56:28 GMT -5
Sappy pine knots that light really easily?
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Post by Gone Kayaking on Jun 14, 2012 10:06:29 GMT -5
Thanks for sharing this, I just posted my driveway!
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Post by dragonfly on Jun 14, 2012 10:11:57 GMT -5
Sappy pine knots that light really easily? Yep, nice to carry some with you. |
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Post by Gone Kayaking on Jun 14, 2012 12:12:32 GMT -5
I use dryer lint stuffed in egg cartons and then soaked with parrafin wax....works like a charm!
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Post by cowcharge on Jun 14, 2012 14:24:04 GMT -5
Where I was, there were pieces of wood every two feet that would go up like you wouldn't believe. The stuff was incredible to a Maine boy used to using wet birch bark and pine fronds to get a fire going. L.L. Bean sells little barrels of fatwood to keep next to the woodstove for the same purpose.
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