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We do loops from Florida out west, the last two ran up about 10,000 miles and 8500 mile respectively. About 1/4 to 1/3 of that is trips out from campgrounds not cg to cg. We intended to slow down this time but we are on our way out right now, north Florida to Rock Springs then by mid september to the Oregon coast to catch crabs and clams. Want to do the Aspen color change, probably in Colorado. If it has cooled down we will probably cut thru Nevada on the way. Then working our way back for the holidays in N.Florida. So I'm sure that will be over 10K. Not so good with fuel prices climbing over $1.25/gal since the end of last year.

It's a matter of which layout you like better. I just prefer FreeCampsites. I have Campedium, Allstays and iOverlander and my Garmin RV890 surprisingly has iOverlander built in. So far as I can tell they mostly have the same info but may call the same site by a different name to confuse things. I do not plan to renew Allstays, we just about never use it. And there are a number of other sites/apps. One I have taken a dislike to is the Dyrt.

I just saw a comment by some saying that they were owned by Amazon, he probably misinterpreted that note. The problem with them boosting some campsite is that hundreds of thousands of others have seen the same thing and many are headed to the camp site.

We did a week on FR 688 back in May

I don't agree with some of this but there are good points in this. A lot is aimed at solo women boondockers who have security worries that don't affect me. newbie advice Whatever you think about Campedium, owned by Amazon I hear, they put out good posts.

You lost me there. We planned to go down the Lime Creek rd in our truck, but it was closed for some reason, maybe a rockfall. We were exploring some of the more moderate alpine roads after doing Cinnamon Pass from Lake City to Silverton. But this guy, maybe has learned the backcountry driving rule number one. Check out the road before taking your RV down it. And if you start down a road that looks like trouble, back out before you go too far. But looking at those photos I think there was zero chance that the rig was going over the slope and I would have taken the toad back. Or walked 5 1/2 miles, a two hour walk. I was wondering why no one came across him tho, but the road being blocked a half mile ahead accounts for that. They do have a phone number you can call to check these roads. This guy did zero preparation. Old Lime Creek Rd

Heh I donät think Iäd drive mz RV up there. We drove the alpine loop including Cinnamon Pass but in our 4WD truck. And got some questions from Jeep drivers at the bottom.

Well probably not any type they do not make chipped keys or at least not all chipped keys. They probably make most standard keys and you can find those machines all over, Lowe's, Home Depot and Walmarts for example.

But you can use the park address for delivery not the Escapee address.

I don't think that is what is happening in Venice Beach, the local police have been told not to remove the junkers.

Are there friendly counties near DC? You are projecting the situation in the NE metroplex onto the rest of the country. Here in Florida you can get a nice slot in a RV park for $400-500/month tho if you want a new RV Resort then that blows up to $900 and up. And placing an RV here in FL isn't as easy as you think, you need five acres minimum, a well, septic tank, electric power poles and county permits and inspections.

LOL I was just speaking generally, I don't know anything about you after all. And didn't the word: Dumb mean speechless or incapable of speaking? And the word: Stupid, which seems to have vanished from the lexicon, mean someone with diminished IQ? Sub 90 range. Or an unwise idea or plan? As for unlimited hotspots, I've used 67 GB this month on my Visible phone which runs on Verizon. But I doubt it would work for really massive data flow. As for working remotely, some IT jobs could work that way. Web Designers or maybe coders, but I don't see Network guys swapping out a bad drive remotely. Or running cable.

The complicating factor is the issue of urban outdoorsmen taking up old RVs and living on the streets with them. This has sensitized the urban population and will make flying under the police radar a lot more difficult. I think just how alert the locals would be depends on location and the density of people doing this. The west coast seems to have the worst problem but they also have lax laws or at least lax enforcemnt. As I said stress level would be high. You could not get away with parking in a residential area for days or weeks on end. Maybe in an industrial/commercial area if the vehicle had some sort of logo on it making it appear to be a local business. Some of those magnetic signs maybe. "Carls Computer Service" or some such. Air conditioning would be a big issue, running one would be a dead give away. Living without one in 90 degree plus city streets in a metal box, would be very difficult. Sanitary issues would also be a problem, you going to live with a Porta-Potty, how would you empty it?

Thats a thought, I'll check that,

On the whole we are very happy with Visible. But it does have one behavior that is really aggravating. When the Visible App wants to install a update it silently chokes off the Internet. It doesn't send you a text or an email, pr pop up a notification. This time it happened right after Win 10 installed a patch, so of course I blamed MS and finally rolled back the patch for the first time ever. And I've used Windows since Win-286. Did no good, finally it occurred to me, check the Visible app and sure enough it wanted an update. Installed that and rebooted compter and phone and everything works again. But geez they could just notify you... I think this is the third time it's happened over a couple of years, once it bricked the phone too.

The stress level would be too high for me. We prefer boondocking intermixed with socializing in campgrounds. And we avoid cities as much as possible.

I have little experience with the east coast, we did one trip up thru DC, to Boston and Bar Harbor. Mosty in the west tho and I've found fellow campers to be 99% pleasant people, always willing to help. There are occasional rule lovers running the places but they are rare.

Well Wind Cave tour reservations fill up by late morning, they told us to get there before nine AM if we wanted to get a slot. So it's as busy as it can be. Cedar Breaks is only open for three or four months a year. Including Alaskan parks is silly, some don't even have road access, I bet they have low visitation. Any of the Island Parks or water parks like Voyager limit visitation by being inaccessible to most of the public. They list is made up by people who don't know much about visiting parks. Some parks on the list just don't have the capacity to absorb many visitors. T Roosevelt has a single fairly short dead end road with few trails. They could not take many more visitors. The north unit is far to the north and most visitors aren't going to travel that far away from the interstate. And the ranger tell you not to waste your time visiting the ranch unit, there isn't anything there. Lassen is a real gem tho, it's snowed in until July many years tho.Great Basin is very far off the track but worth a visit. Black Canyon and Natural Bridges are far from any interstates too. Especially the north side of Black Canyon. Great Sand Dunes is another that probably has all the visitors it can take, there was quite a line of vehicles waiting to get in, last time we were there. And it's a favorite of locals too. That creek is very popular and the dunes are a kid favorite.

All of the major Utah parks plus South Rim were busy, not quite mobbed but that was most of a month ago. Cedar Breaks is probably not too bad if it opened on schedule. Don't know about North Rim. Minor parks probably not mobbed yet, Wupataki was mostly empty.

The German Embassy may be able to help with the insurance issue with some suggestions. There is a consulate in Houston. As for SIM cards, there is no rule just buy one. Visible will provide them for example as will any other phone company. I haven't heard anyone saying they had problems with a mail service address. Ask the Escapees mail people about it.

Well if you are going to be permanent residents you will be dealing with the US taxes. You will need to pick a domicile state. Most people adopt one of three states that have no state income tax and have low taxes in general. Those states are Florida, Texas and South Dakota. The Escapees have a video on their website showing how to go about this. Escapees Domicile Other issues are health and auto insurance, Texas has some sort of vehicle inspection which means they inspect you vehicles periodically. Whichever state you pick you will need to visit for a day or two in order to get a drivers license, automobile/truck registration/and for US citizens, voter registration. At least the US bureaucrats are not as bad as I understand the German ones are. You should be able to finish all this in an afternoon.

Visible is $40/month or if you get on their party plan $25/month. That's per phone. You have to use one of their phones or one from their approved list.

Cannot advise you on this. You will have a lot of questions, just feel free to ask here.

We took 85 south, it's a good two lane highway, we stopped near Amidon to boondock at the burning coal vein site, OK spot but no burning in progress.

Utah Hwy 95 from Hanksville to Blanding Utah (and then to Cortez).This is east exit from Capitol Reef via Hwy 24. Spectacular canyon thru red rock walls that equal Capitol Reef. Turn offs to Hite and Bull Frog Marina both have fuel, otherwise it's 125 miles of no service. I just noticed on the map that this borders the new Bears Eyes NM which is on the east side of the road. Also goes by Natural Bridges. East end is part of the Trail of Ancients with some ruins. Also Hwy 261 to Moki Dugway branches off with many boondocking spots for many miles of road. Including one of our top five spots. Bottom of Moki is Valley of Gods and road to Mexican Hat/Monument Valley and to Goosenecks SP. Bears ears is on our todo list. 2) CO Hwy 141 which comes off of Hwy 50 south of Grand Junction running west then turning south to Naturita CO. Continues south but we did not go that way. This is not really a road to anywhere but is is bordered by a large river and giant cliffs to a mesa on the south side of the west leg. Cliffs reminded me of Yosemite and we drove it in a light rain and there were many waterfalls off the mesa top. There are reportedly many camping spots on top of the mesa which is NF land. Some NF camps and boondocking. South side of mesa is a uranium mining district with active mines. You can get to the top of the mesa via several access roads, which we did not take. It's on my list of spots to revisit.