Great weather news!
The high temperature today was in the mid-70s, which is pretty nice. But the 10-day forecast is nothing but blue skies and 80° every day.... Not bad for February
I think what I'm going to do is stay where I am until Monday and then visit a couple of boondocking places I've read about on the Internet that are near Phoenix to see how they look and if they're still there. One never knows nowadays.
I really need a boondocking area that's near Ben Avery gun range that I can stay at for a week or more, that doesn't cost much, or is preferably free. Camping is pretty expensive near the Ben Avery gun range area, with commercial campgrounds in the $50 a night range, and a whole lot more if it has "resort" in the name. But as I've said many times in my blog, if commercial campgrounds were free, and it cost money to boondock..... I would still boondock. And that's not stubbornness, I just enjoy the freedom of living this way.
Even though I still have about three months of rambling this winter, one of these days, I need to start thinking about what route I'm going to take heading back to Colorado in May. I'm probably going to take I-40 and hit I-25 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and head north. Which means that I need to stay in this general area where I'm at, since I'm already pretty far north, so there'll be less driving to get back to Denver.
So I had planned to stay in the area of the Arizona trust lands, so I would have a free place to stay a lot of the time before I headed back to Colorado. But with the trust lands closed that I had planned on using, that sorta makes exiting Arizona more difficult when the time comes for me to leave. But I'll figure something out, I always do.
Theboondork
There's a hill near where I'm boondocked, and since I had nothing better to do, I had the urge to climb up it and take a picture or two.
Some parts of the hill were very rocky and difficult to walk through, but I enjoy getting off the trail and going places not everyone goes.
Some parts are easy-going if I stayed next to the little wash going from the top of the hill to the bottom, it was barely challenging.
Near the top, it got steeper, but I was in no hurry.
I finally made it to the top, and this is the picture I wanted to take. It shows the entire county boondocking area that I'm staying at.... In fact, that's my teeny tiny home on the far right. That's actually boondocking spot number one, so at least I had a couple of sides where I could see the desert landscape and not another RV.
Was it worth the climb? I think so, I know it's not Mount Everest, but at almost 80 years old, it felt like Mount Everest to me. It didn't take long, and I had nothing better to do except relax anyway.