Solo Travel and Living on the Road in a Skoolie
This is a subject that probably learns more into the realm of being personal than I should probably get into, but it is a reality of life on the road. Just as it is with anyone that is single and keeping their options open to meeting new people. Either new friends or something more. Dating…
As I’ve been bringing over old posts to the new site, I found one that was talking about my challenges in the beginning, when I had only been living on the road for a few weeks. Some of the insights that I discovered about full time travel still hold water, but in the four months…
This post originally appeared on my Sixty Miles from Anywhere site, just as I was starting off on this adventure. I attempted to update the content, but realized how much things have changed over the last several months. I will post an update to what I have learned in upcoming posts and possibly a podcast…
My new podcast episodes are out. Ep. 30 New Year Decisions. And episode 29: Leaving Lake Havasu. In these episodes I talk about my decision to leave Lake Havasu, the circumstances surrounding that, solitude in the Mojave desert, a house party for NYE in Phoenix, and finding myself back in Quartzsite at the Wu-Tang Camp….
I’ve been boondocking in the same area for the last three weeks. There’s a couple reasons for doing this. First of all, I have a limited income and gasoline is expensive. Second, I have lots of work that needs to be done and when you are on the road for hours at a time, it…
I’ve been at this site for the last two nights. I can’t complain. It’s a free camping in Farmington, New Mexico. Just north of the Glade Run recreation area sits a small ten site BLM campground. No day use fees. A vault toilet and cement pads with gazebos and picnic tables. An iron fire ring…
Currently, no pun intended, my bus is running a 250watt solar panel with two 12v 100amp Lithium Iron batteries. For a couple weeks I was fighting my electrical system. Honestly I had no idea what I was getting into with solar power. Solar is promoted as being this incredible thing that is going to save…
It’s 4:30am when I start the bus, ready to head out to see the Chaco Culture NHP eclipse. Normally when I’m making sure everything is stowed away it done with the assurance of complete daylight. Right now the starts are still bright and sharp in the night sky. My headlights help guide me out of…