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Just suppose that it is a holiday weekend, one of those cool three day holiday’s. You are used to boondocking for Friday night, Saturday and leaving back to civilization on Sunday. But now, you have an extra day to unwind and commune with nature. Most of us only have a limited amount of storage space in our camper and that means packing extra stuff can be a challenge.  Boondocker’s have so many clever ways of stretching their resources that we could never cover them all in our limited space, so we will touch base with some of the more common ways and let your imagination be your creative guide.

Many RVer’s perceive that this means staying camped in their chosen location as long as the stuff that they bring with them lasts. And often times this can come down to how much water you brought with you.

Boondocking comes in many forms, so it’s not likely that we will be able to cover them all in this brief writing. So, let’s talk about the most common types of boondocking that comes to mind.

For those who don’t know me, I am ScubaRx on most of the travel trailer forums including Oliver’s. Over on the FGRV forum I am Steve Outlaw. I hope to be a reasonably consistent contributor to this blog. Yes, I realize “hope” is not a good planning strategy, but being new to the idea of “blogging”, I’m not exactly sure that I can be effective at it for very long, if at all.

Sometimes we can get a surprise from the Oliver’s ability to do cool stuff on it’s own ! Well, maybe at first it is a bit disconcerting, enough that we think, what, why did it do that ! It’s like it has a mind of it’s own ! During our winter tour with the Legacy Elite II, earlier this year, we got one such a pleasant surprise. At first I thought that I had messed something up, and I called the plant looking for answers to what I had done.

A proud new owner has a GREAT REVIEW of their new Oliver Travel Trailer they picked up in February. Check out their review and other post on their Wincrasher’s Travels blog.

Lots of miles and lots of weather ! Little did we realize that as we ran ahead of the ice storm when we left Edmond Oklahoma, that wave after wave of winter freezing precipitation would eventually grind our tour to a complete halt!
We are at the factory in Hohenwald now, turning in our equipment, writing up reports and debriefing with the sales staff. It has been great touring the Oliver Legacy Elite II, but it is time for these mountain folks to go fishing! See you all later this year as we gear up for our trans Canadian tour!

Absent without Leave! As our last appointment of the day was over, at Mathis Texas, and we took measure of what we needed to do next, we came to a startling discovery ! We were ever so close to the National Seashore just South East of Corpus Christi Texas ! Now, that is where all measuring of what comes next stopped. Right there. Dead in its’ tracks. And a full fledged escape began to happen ! Yep, we went off schedule, off route, played hooky and I mean, we went full fledged AWOL ! Here is a look.

Absent without Leave! As our last appointment of the day was over, at Mathis Texas, and we took measure of what we needed to do next, we came to a startling discovery ! We were ever so close to the National Seashore just South East of Corpus Christi Texas ! Now, that is where all measuring of what comes next stopped. Right there. Dead in its’ tracks. And a full fledged escape began to happen ! Yep, we went off schedule, off route, played hooky and I mean, we went full fledged AWOL ! Here is a look.

Today’s fuel efficient designs for RV’s and indeed trailer’s in general, are prompting the use of aluminum frames  for strength, rigidity and weight reduction, that will result in the owner reaping fuel savings.  Axle’s and suspensions, because of their very nature, are almost always made of steel. And there is the engineering rub. That rub has a name. Galvanic action, or, as end users, like many of us, think of it as, two dissimilar metals in contact, causing corrosion. A solution is the use of the sacrificial anode, like those pictured below.

Years ago, while back in the “work a day” world, on a day off, I was working my way through a chore list, on the farm.  One of those chores was to worm the small herd of Brangus cattle, that included a young Brangus Bull. Now, the wormer that I had on hand was not the liquid type, that pours on the back, but was instead, the paste in a tube type. He. he, now, those that have been there, already know that this isn’t going to go well!

If you have a strong and compelling desire to see what is over there on the other side of the mountain, or maybe, hike to the mountaintop in the predawn chill, just to see the first rays of sunshine peek over the horizon, you might be a nomad.