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I think you're on to something about his ugly mug and the women running away. Apparently he is trying to live vicariously through others' photo of women since most of us are highly desirable examples of attractive, manly, manhood. I'm beginning to think his avatar is a cry for help in terms of self esteem, and perhaps he is trying to compensate. Also, don't you think it strange that he wanted me to take pictures of nuns? I'm not sure what that suggests.Seriously, his reports aren't THAT good. Plus, he always ruins it by inserting 3 or 4 selfies of his ugly mug, and he has no pictures of cute girls because they all run away when they see him coming. That's why he wants to see your pictures, to see proof that they'll actually talk to you.
Great report, that's a nice size toy hauler for one person to use staying out in the boonies, looks like luxury to me.
You got to do food pics at restaurants so the rest of us know where to eat!
I am new to loving Utah, looks like a good time, I need to get back out there on a motorcycle.
gixxer, on the luxury of the toy hauler, I did mention my tag line on ADV of "Candyass Camper". But seriously, I love boondocking, and the RV allows a much longer, more comfort laden base camp with a fridge, solar panels, and so on...I'm not one of those guys with a generator. The only thing bad weather brings to me at a camp site is the inability to ride that day at the worst.
As far as "roughing it" goes, I will share a somewhat weird thing I do on these off grid trips that I'm sure many other RV'ers will think abhorrent. I do not charge the water system in the RV, and I do not use the black water waste system. For waste I use a neat, Thetford portable toilet that is pretty much similar to and the pedestal size of the toilet in the RV. Why? I don't have to worry about finding RV style dump stations. No...LOL!...I'm not throwing "my stuff" out on the ground. The portable toilet splits in half, and I can dump it in a proper toilet or even those outback forest, BLM, etc. primitive toilets. Gasp!, some might think, but I tell ya this is what the FS, BLM, etc. wants you to do and in many cases requiring you to do if you're camping in certain areas. And we all know how much we love to find "surprises" surrounding some of our favorite remote campsites. I've been using the portable toilet deal for many years even back to my truck camper top and van camping days. The capacity in the portable allows quite a few days of use...unless you've been eating at Taco Bell and such. Also you make sure you're not using some chemical in the toilet that strips paint and kills baby bunnies. These days there are good, harmless, non-toxic options.
My water needs are also quite different. I stow several of the large 5-6 gallon water jugs in the truck and keep about 3 of the smaller "spigot equipped" jugs in the RV. One sits in a holder above the twin sinks...works pretty conveniently actually. Needed hot water for washing dishes and such is just heated on the stovetop. Bathing?...I don't bathe for 3 weeks. LOL!...NO!I do not follow the KsTeve method of personal hygiene...another indicator of why the women run away. I have a high mounted holder mounted in the regular shower stall that I hang a collapsible, thick, water jug on that has a mix of cold and hot water...heated on the stovetop...to take a pretty darned effective shower. I can stand and use it, but for most of the shower I like to sit on a small, folding, camp stool. Too much information?...sorry. This also allows me to shave my legs in comfort.
What do I do with the dish and shower water? I gave this a lot of thought and came to the conclusion that this water as far as amount and content the way I do it is no different than remote camping where you're taking solar showers and washing camp cookware. But again...no...I don't just dump the gray water anywhere or leave the drain open at my camp. The gray tank holds way more volume than I'll ever fill up when camping like this at a location. When I move camp there is often a free dump station at many locations or I get creative and dump the gray water...always a very small volume since I don't have an RV full of women washing their hair...a sexist would say...at a place like a DOT gravel/material location, or similar, where environmental impact is non-existent compared to what is already there. I know this is technically illegal in most states. However, my method does not dump my cooking and washing water at the camping site like primitive campers do. My same amount of showering/cooking/cleaning water does less harm at a dump station or place like a gravel/material marshalling location than it does at the spot where I'm camping and where others will camp. Some can't get their head around it, but I do understand the concern as some campers would irresponsibly dump their gray water in some not so friendly locations. It's gray water...the same thing in the same amount you're dumping at your campsite when you primitive camp and take a small solar shower each day. So, some can get their shorts in a wad about my technique or not. I'll continue until I end up in federal prison for raping the pristine environment...gasp! I think the real problem with remote camping these days is the poop and inappropriate control of said poop. Most dish soaps and shower soaps these days are pretty darned environmentally safe. I still don't like to let it drain at a remote campsite.
I'm sorry, gixxer...I didn't mean for my response to turn into a techno babble about RV remote camping, but I do get people occasionally coming up to me in a remote camping environment and asking about how I deal with water, waste, refrigeration, electrical power, etc. And let's face it, as many of us are remote campers, it may give others some ideas and options. And let's also face it that one of the black marks causing many remote camping areas to be closed down revolves around issues like waste and campsite impact. As you can tell I'm pretty passionate about it because I've been camping, riding, 4WD'ing, backpacking, etc. out west enough decades to see walls closing in.
Sorry for the somewhat off topic rant.