Do you long to go camping along Canadian and American highways and discover this great country of ours? Camping provides an excellent escape to the daily stresses of everyday life and allows one to discover new people and places.
If you want to camp long term, for a month, two or more at a time, you will experience a very fulfilling and adventure filled life unknown to the average person living in a house, in a city, working 9-5 Monday to Friday.
Boondock camping, also called rough camping is a great solution to affording long term travel. If you are like my husband and I, you love traveling but enjoy being independent and love privacy even though you enjoy meeting new people and going to social events. At night, when it's time to turn in, you, like us probably love hanging your coats at the same place,
I love cooking healthy vegetarian foods from my own travelling kitchen and my husband loves watching his own movies on his own flat screen television in his rolling den. I can work long distance on my laptop and make money wherever we are.
Boondock camping is perfect for us because we have a choice to live in the great outdoors in nature's beauty at its finest or in downtown parking lots close to farmer's markets and gardening festivals. We get to park our small Winnebago up close and personal with Mother Nature anytime we choose to.
From the forests of the north to the deserts of the south, North America is ours to discover. Maybe eventually I will convince my husband to cross over into Mexico and from there well, I have my eye on Belize...but I digress...
There are many advantages to boondocking, namely saving lots of money. However it is not for everyone. You need to be a self reliant, mechanically inclined and self sufficient couple or family that can amuse themselves and allow themselves the pure joy of living and discovering. There are a few major differences between camping in an RV park temporarily for a few days vs. boondocking for weeks at a time.
When you go boondock camping you will be usually parked in areas with no electricity hook-ups. This does not mean you have to go without. With the use of solar panels, batteries, inverters and a mini generator, you can easily and cheaply create your own energy.
Of course you don't want to run your generator if you park at Walmart in downtown Ottawa or Orlando but when you are parked in the middle of the desert or the forest, you can recharge your batteries for when you get to the big city.
The key to successful boondocking is self-reliance and that means energy wise, mechanically, eating wise and financially. Menu planning is my specialty. I usually sit down on Sundays and plan a week's worth of menus for my husband and I.
Breakfast is mostly either cereal and fruit or tofu or egg scramble with fakin bacon. Lunch is when we enjoy going out to try new vegetarian restaurants in different cities. Lunches are less expensive than dinner and are equally tasty so whenever we are passing by an interesting prospect, we take advantage of the situation.
If we are camped out and not close to civilization, we usually eat soup and sandwiches or big salads for lunch. Dinner is when I enjoy trying out new recipes and as my husband would tell you, we never eat the same thing twice because i love to experiment in the kitchen.
Boondock camping has recently found new popularity or at least is coming out of the woodwork now. The internet is great to find prospective camping sites and more information about this new trend that is allowing many families to feel the joy of freedom, new discoveries and the sheer pleasure of having enough time to truly discover and appreciate our beautiful country.
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