Our First Week of Boondocking

Thanks Ellie for this Great Picture


Our new campsite

We’ll we have been out here in the desert of Arizona for a week now. It has been wonderful except for my laptop crashed and died. Which is the reason for not updating the blog. Now Gina has a macbook and I use a pc. I have trouble using a mac. However, until I can get to a best buy or some other electronic store I will have to use Gina’s mac to keep the blog updated.

To say Gina loves it out here is an understatement. She has spent almost all day of everyday looking for rocks. We both had different visions of what the desert would be like and we were both wrong. Where we are located is mostly rocky terrain verse sandy desert. Gina loves rocks and is having a blast looking for those special and unique rocks. We have even been taking hikes up in the mountains. Gina is learning to be selective in the rocks she collecting. She even went so far the other day by purging some of the rocks she first collected. She is now looking for big rocks instead of smaller ones. On one of our hikes we carried two rocks back with us over two miles. I carried a 62 pound rock and she carried a 38 pound rock. That's 100 pounds of rocks between us and it's definitely a great workout program. That kind of workout will not happen everyday but we had fun doing it. On our journey back I was startled by a snake. Now try jumping with 62 pounds on your back. I went one way and he went the other. Now let me explain about that rock. Gina didn't ask me to carry it, quite on the contrary she said it was too heavy. However, I insisted on carrying it since it caught my eye first and we both thought it was beautiful and would look great in our garden. John Brown, you're right it is a good thing I have a big truck since I am sure it will be loaded down with rocks for our return trip to Louisiana.

Sun rising over the desert


View out of our front door


Gina is thinking to herself (so many rocks how do I ever choose?)


View from the mountains (our trailer is down there somewhere)


Another view from one of our hikes


A close up shot of the rocks on the mountains


Gina's vivid imagination told her this looked like a Triceratops

For our nights we have gotten together for dinner at either our house or Jim & Ellie’s. Gina cooked a big pot of chicken & sausage gumbo that we ate for two nights and then Jim & Ellie grilled chicken and pork one night along with a fruit salad that tasted great. Gina then made taco soup for one night and last night we were treated to homemade chili at Jim & Ellie's.

Mike and Janna our new friends from Montana


Jim and Ellie

Saturday morning Gina spoke with Janna and Ellie and they all decided that we would be taking a road trip to Wickenburg, Arizona. We left at a little after twelve so our first stop was lunch. Janna & Mike took us to a great little Mexican restaurant called Anita's. The food was delicious. We then took a walk around town to see all of the painted bronze statues.

Water tower in Wickenburg, Arizona


Mike & Janna with their friends Jerry and Caryl


Us posing with one of the bronze statues


Jim & Ellie taking their pose


Janna, Ellie and Gina


The Jail Tree


Gina taking time to smell the flowers


A gold prospector


Gina getting sweet with Buckshot Babe (another bronze statue)

Mike & Janna then took us to an area west of town that you can boondock at. It is another beautiful area.

How about this view for your backyard?


Or maybe this one?

From there we drove over to Escapee's North Ranch located in Congress, Arizona. Our good friends Mike and Pat have a lot there and they spend a few months there every year. They are there right now except for this week as they went down to Yuma, Arizona to set up a pressure pro and power tank booth at Nick & Terri's Gypsy Journal Rally. Both Jim & Ellie and us wanted to see about the RV park there since we are both thinking about staying there after we leave here.
After which we headed back toward our little paradise in the desert. Once we got back we took Angel and Zoey for a walk until it got dark. We decided we would watch a little TV since I put our DirecTV dish up this morning. We haven't watched TV this week since for the most part we have spent every evening with Jim & Ellie and Mike & Janna. I knew that Sunday the forecast called for 70% chance of thunderstorms so I figured we would be inside for the day and watching TV would be on the agenda.

The first of many clouds moving in Saturday evening

To end this entry I would like to tell everyone that our electrical system which includes the solar panels is performing magnificent, exceeding all of my expectations. It's doing so well that we are able to run our refrigerator on electric verse gas.


Gina & I hope everyone has a pleasant and wonderful day, enjoying what our Father has so graciously blessed us with.