As you may know, early last year I leased a boondocking site at Cacallo Loco Ranch, a Ranch in the desert for RVers, about 40 miles southwest of Tucson.

The road that leads here is sometimes crowded, nobody wants to moooove,

And, you might get some attitude from your fellow travelers.  😊

There is no electricity and no phone lines.  (Verizon works pretty good most of the time though).  Any power we have is produced by a great big generator, which runs from 9am till 9pm daily throughout the cooler months.  (In the summer it’s run once a week).

The generator brings power to the clubhouse, the library/game room, the laundry room…

The office, lights for the bathroom down front, and the full hook up sites.  At least from 9am till 9pm.  Other hours you are on your own.

Where my site is, and most anyone else who stays for any length of time, you are on your own for power 24/7.

Water is supplied by some very deep wells in the desert.  It is piped to the buildings mentioned above, the full hook up sites, and also the bathroom/showers in the boondock area.

There is a pump house near the shower room where the boondockers can get water.

That little white thing is what I call the pumphouse.  The boondockers bathroom is the red building and if you notice the white picket fence, that’s where the dump is.

My power setup is among the most simple of the boondockers.  I have 40 watts of solar on top of WS, 1 twelve volt battery and a Honda 2000 generator.

At least 95% of the time my 40 watts of solar along with the battery take care of our needs.  Some others here have large battery banks, many large solar panels, and they have satellite tv and many other conveniences.

I rather like my set up…I like to keep it simple.

Water is another story.  Without a little (a lot actually) Of help from my friends, filling my water tank would be quite a chore.  Last season my routine was to take many one gallon containers and some larger ones, to the pump house, fill them, then bring them home in the truck and fill my water tank one gallon at a time.  Water is heavy!

This season Fred built his own water wagon, with a 60 gallon container.

Fred and his water wagon, filling WS’s water tank.

He tows it to the pump house with one of their four wheelers, fills it and shares the water with us, bringing it up our hill as needed.

Fred has two filters and a pump on his water wagon.

About once a week I empty my black tank into my blue boy, which is actually gray.

I hook it up to the hitch on JR and tow it down to the dump.

Fun fun.

When I empty the black tank, I also empty the gray tank….down the hill to water the Palo Verde tree and some cactus.

Propane is sold here for the going rate which is $2.30/gal right now.

Oh and I can even get NPR on my little transistor radio…at least sometimes.

The bird watching is great!

Sometimes I have 6 or 8 Cardinals at my feeders at once.  (I have many feeders)….along with 50 or 60 other sweet birdies.

And the scenery is amazing.

Cactus with a silver lining.

Sunset with a view of one of the ranch water tanks there on the left.

Cozy home.

Who needs the big city? ❤️