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    RV Boondocking: The Road to the Good Life
    RV Boondocking: The Road to the Good Life
    RV Boondocking: The Road to the Good Life
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    RV Boondocking: The Road to the Good Life

    By BK Gore

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    RV boondocking, the complete story... 19 chapters from my rv boondocking philosophy and finding good camps to work kamping and an rvers dictionary.

    I may not have all the answers but I have a few... and maybe some advice you can use to help find the ones I don't have!

    Not a big book... but a big little book! I believe it'll start you down the right road to finding shining times on the rv road!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBK Gore
    Release dateJul 17, 2010
    ISBN9781452366999
    RV Boondocking: The Road to the Good Life
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    BK Gore

    He was born back east and fit there like the proverbial square peg in a round hole. Lucky for him his family moved to Arizona when he was but 13. Within months of hitting that desert sand he was horseback under a wide brim black hat, wearing tall boots with jinglin' spurs, wranglin' for a local rancher. He grew up chasin' wild cows through the Arizona chaparral. That square peg had found the home he'd been born to fit. While the best part of his life has been spent cowboying from Arizona to Montana, parts of the last many years have been spent as a soldier, carpet cleaner, hard rock miner, carpenter, night watchman, truck driver, hardware clerk, holster maker, wood cutter, and horse rustler. It's from that wide variety of experience that he's able to draw the raw materials to bring his characters to life. They form the foundation for his stories of honor, sacrifice and "damn the consequences I'm riding this trail my own way" tough hided western stubbornness.

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      RV Boondocking - BK Gore

      RV Boondocking

      ~ The Road to the Good Life ~

      By B.K. Gore

      Published by B.K. Gore at Smashwords

      Copyright 2010 B. K Gore

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      ~ Table of Contents ~

      Introduction

      My RV Boondocking Philosophy

      RV Boondocking ~ The only way to go RVing

      Choosing your first rig

      Obstacles you’re going to find

      Form a Plan ~ Outline Your RV Boondocking Escape

      Your First Steps ~ Preparations to Go RV Boondocking

      Setting Up and Outfitting Your Rig

      Budgeting for RV Boondocking

      Making the hard choices... nothing goes according to plan

      Handling Your Mail/Finances on the road

      Communications on the road

      Finding the RV Boondocking camps that Make for Shinin’ Times

      Wildlife safety

      RVing and Boondocking security

      It’s not just wandering- what do we do now?

      A way of going... Slow down so you can see what comes into focus

      Work Kamping

      My Top Ten RV Boondocking Tips

      A Dictionary for RVers

      ~ Introduction ~

      This book is the collection of all the lessons I’ve learned, about RV Boondocking, over the past 30 years or so. Now, I ain’t tellin’ you I know it all. But, I do believe if you use what I’ve learned; it might save you a few hard knocks.

      You’ll still find plenty of your own interesting ‘excitements’ to laugh about.... later; but if I can help you cut down on their frequency, I figure I’ve done something worthwhile.

      Some of what’s here is from articles I’ve previously written... the rest is brand new inspiration pulled from memory for this book.

      My hope is that this book will inspire you to go out and try RV Boondocking. It’s my belief, that after you wake up a few mornings; to the sound of a Loon’s calls echoing through the mountains; or the fresh scent of the wind in the trees; you’ll not want to RV, or live, any other way.

      Use this book as a starting point to develop your own, personal, style and way of going. There is seldom, if ever, just one way of doing anything correctly. RV Boondocking is darn sure not the exception. The trick is, as always, to find the way of going, which is the right ‘way’ for you.

      Look at what I’ve done. Find the different ways others go about the same tasks. Take your pick of those ‘ways’, mix ‘em together in clever, new, combinations... or come up with fresh, brand new, ideas of your own.

      Most of all don’t be afraid to explore, do things your own way, and LIVE! The only down side is, you’ll get to find out what might not work! But then you’ll know right? To tell the truth, most of our best times, and most valued memories are from those times when we learned how ‘NOT’ to do something.

      So, enjoy and get Goin’ RV Boondocking!

      ~ My RV Boondocking Philosophy ~

      What is RV Boondocking? For me it’s the simplicity advised by Thoreau a century and more ago. Though I aspire to his achievement of simplicity, I am not pursuing his austerity. I plan on hangin’ on to the creature comforts of my fifth wheel!

      When I wake up, in our fifth wheel, my wife softly sawing logs beside me, deep in a high mountain camp, I thank God for the life he’s blessed me with, in spite of my many stupidities.

      All I need is the roof and four walls of my beloved rig. The warm bed and hot shower, surrounded by the far country of my boondock camp keep me thinking: I’ve died and gone to Heaven.

      Now, I’ve chased the almighty American dollar (mostly without success!) a hundred hours a week. I’ve worked jobs I’ve detested, as well as those I’ve enjoyed, right down to my boots. Chasin’ cows (which pretty much paid nuthin’) was a joy. It was all done, for the most part, to do what I figured I was ‘expected’ to do.

      Sort of a go along to get along idea; what we’re all conditioned to do from the first day we fill a diaper; to be a good, productive, citizen. The question is, productive for whom?

      I’m here to tell you, for the most part, I think we all got conned. Cogitate on it for a while. Who benefits from all your slavin’? Subtract all the work you do that only benefits somebody else, and what do you have left?

      Eliminate all the work that only pays the tax man; and let’s face it, we don’t really get much back from that investment; the bankers interest, the work that pays for that ‘Big House’, most of which goes unused most of the time, and how much work do you have left?

      Heck, there were weeks at a time that I didn’t enter 50% of our old house. So why work for it?

      (Note: We’ve been pushed back into our house for a while. (Winter 2007) We’d moved into our rig full-time thinking we had the house sold. The deal collapsed. We got caught by the popping housing ‘bubble’... one more argument against ‘em!)

      Take away all the work ‘Others’ have talked you into doin’; the benefits of which go mostly, right, straight, to THEM, and there ain’t much work left to do for your own actual needs is there? Put a sharp pencil to it and I think you’ll find that in our ‘system’, a fraction of your work actually goes to your true needs.

      Now, if you need a 45’ diesel pusher ... you’re going to have to work harder than I do to support my six year old, 30’ Jayco Fiver, but you get the idea.

      I admit I had to kick in a goodly amount for that big red Dodge we drive... but I NEEDED it!

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