Unprepared
I was finally forced by necessity to go into town and do some shopping. I discovered last night that I'm almost out of popcorn, and popcorn is one of the few things I can cook and actually eat after I cook it. So if I accidentally ran out of popcorn, there is a very real possibility I could starve.
I didn't have to mark my boondocking spot when I went into town, since there are plenty of spots to boondock where I'm at, and there's nothing special about the spot I'm in. So I headed for the grocery store.
Wandering around the Safeway, I couldn't bring myself to put anything in my cart because the prices were so unbelievable, I thought they were all a mistake. It looked to me like the shelf stockers had accidentally put caviar price tags on the peanut butter shelf and mistakenly thought that Land O’ Lakes butter was actually small gold bars and priced the butter accordingly. After wandering around the store for a while, I had nothing in my cart to eat and had to retrace my steps and find things I could afford to eat, and not necessarily what I wanted to eat..... So I decided this was a good time to lose a few pounds
After leaving the grocery store, I went to a gas station, put some diesel in the truck, which was not too bad at $3.40 a gallon, filled up an empty propane tank at $2.45 a gallon, also not too bad, and threw away a couple of bags of trash. If I haven't mentioned it before, I use my Walmart grocery bags for trash bags since they're small enough to fit in any trash can when I throw them away, and it takes me about three days to fill up one grocery bag, so I obviously don't make much trash.
Still suffering from sticker shock, I headed back home to the trusty trust lands, trying to remember if I had bought groceries this winter at anyplace other than a Walmart, and I don't think I have, so I guess that would explain the extreme sticker shock of walking into a Safeway mentally, emotionally, and financially unprepared.
Theboondork
Sunset.
If you look in the center of this picture, you will see a white spot, which is a camper van visible from the hill I'm standing on. This shows just a little bit of all the space available in this area for boondocking.
My Lance Camper and nearest neighbor. I know if you're not a loner, living like this is hard to imagine. But to a loner like me, it's just about perfect.