Leaving Las Vegas! Time to go Live in the Mountains
About four years ago, I was living in Las Vegas. Great apartment! Great palm-tree-lined pool! 20 minutes from the Strip! The shows! The food! The luxury suite hotel stays!
So, I was running on the treadmill one morning (in the fully-equipped gym, overlooking the palm-tree-lined pool), when I had an ephipony. WTF am I doing here! That's when I decided to leave everything.
I got out of my lease, moved up to Northern California, and lived by the side of a breathtaking River called Savage Rapids. Turns out that breathtaking river was "breath-giving".
I was in my pop up tent. With no electricity. That's no email, no MSN news, no facebook. ( No NETFLIX, for goddsake!) It's called dry camping. Only, I found myself starting to feel quenched.
My nearest "neighbor" was a mile away. I started taking long walks in the woods (singing at the top of my lungs with my ipod), swam in the river, ate a lot of sandwiches. (Turns out, there's no PF Chang off the grid.)
I'd sit outside on my lawnchair and watch the bluejays, frogs and toads. I would watch the bald eagles swooping down the river! ( Yes, I have a bear story, too. I walked out one morning and encountered a bear standing not 15 feet away from me, standing on her hind legs, holding my gatorade bottle between her teeth! ( I left no food outside - but forgot the gatorade.)
Well, this is my first post. I was in N. Calif for 18 mos, then pitched my pop up tent in an Arizona ghost town for 6 mos, then it got too hot, so now I'm camping in Oregon doing my gold mining thing. Back to AZ in October. (After a crazy-snow winter in N. Cal, never again am I "doing" snow.)
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Dry camping 18 mos. That's all I could take. When I got to AZ and now Oregon, I have 30 amp hookup. I bought a microwave! A coffee maker! A hotplate! Running water!! That's how I'm online now and taking this course. I have Netflix back, too! Thanks for reading and the comment! Thank you!!
We did dry camping in Quartzite, AZ one winter. They had a truck that delivered water and a "honey wagon" to empty the black water tank. There were lots of snow birds parked out there in the desert on BLM land all winter long. We used our generator for AC and power.
You can follow me to NC! I haven't been on the road in the RV since about 2005 or so. Got tired of the way the guy I was with treated me when he was drinking (which was all the time)! So I came home.
Great story! Thanks for sharing. Years ago, one of my friends panned for gold in Idaho. (We are both from Oregon.) He had a small claim that he had to work every so often to keep the claim.
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Such an amazing adventure you are on! I know exactly the thrill of travel and staying where your neighbors are either miles from you or at least far enough away so you can hear their every word.
Congratulations on your journey!
All the best,
Sue