![]() ![]() Sometimes I think the best way to support others is to leave them alone and allow them to be. I want to give others space and permission to share their authentic selves. I want to share my authentic thoughts and feelings. I don't like fake, and I don't want to share fake. My goal (for my writing and my life) is to be real. I'm primarily a writer, but I also create beautiful little collages hand make hemp jewelry and warm, colorful winter hats and use my creative and artistic skills to decorate my life and brighten the lives of others. I'm also a house and pet sitter, and I pick up odd jobs when I can. During the last two seasons as a work camper on that mountain, I was a clerk in a campground store. I was a camp host and parking lot attendant for two seasons and wrote a book about my experiences called Confessions of a Work Camper: Tales from the Woods. I was a work camper in a remote National Forest recreation area on a mountain for four seasons. When it gets too hot for me in my desert, I get in my minivan and move up in elevation to find cooler temperatures or I house sit in town in a place with air conditioning Now I have a little travel trailer parked in a small RV park in a small desert town. For almost half of the time I was a van dweller, I was going it alone. I've been a rubber tramp for nearly a decade.I like to see places I've never seen before, and I like to visit the places I love again and again.įor most of my years on the road, my primary residence was my van. In any case, that's the name I'm using here and now. Maybe that's the name my family gave me maybe it's not. If you camp at Bighorn, please pack out everything you packed in. Please! Do not leave the burnt remains of garbage in the fire pit as previous campers at the site I chose had done. Visitors need to carry out all their trash. #Boondocking in new mexico free#Like most free campgrounds, Bighorn has no trash receptacles. The door to the toilet closed and locked, and I was happy about that. There was an uncomfortable number of dead flies on the interior walls of the building, but I did my best to ignore them. There was plenty of toilet paper during my stay (but I advise you to always be prepared with your own). The pit toilet was a cute, rustic little building. However, the price (free) was right, and it was a good, close place to spend the night after I wore myself out hiking at The Catwalk. Have I stayed in prettier or more interesting places? Yes. There’s not really too much to say about this campground. I thought it would have been nice to have the sound of water as my backdrop, but I guess I was too late in the year. I checked out the arroyo back there when I arrived, and it was bone dry. I read somewhere (probably on a Free Campsites website review) that during some parts of the year water flows in a creek along the back edge of the campground. The dry, yellow grass can be seen near the trees. I had to park this far away from the picnic table in order to find a flat spot. The trees did offer some shade on the sites, but it wasn’t the shade of a pine forest. The grass was dry and yellow and did not grow on the actual campsites. There were trees in the campground (juniper and cedar, I think), and scrubby desert bushes. ![]() The road through the campground was dirt covered in gravel and the sites had sparse wood mulch and gravel spread over them. When I left at 5:30 the next morning, I saw a couple other vehicles that had pulled in during the night.Įach campsite had a heavy, difficult to move picnic table made of metal, as well as a manufactured metal fire pit. At dusk, a man on a bicycle arrived and set up a tent. ![]() It wasn’t difficult to pick a spot away from others, as there was only one other person in the campground when I arrived. Other sites looked flatter, but I was interested in being as far away from other campers as possible. I had to park my minivan 15 feet or so from the picnic table on the site in order to find adequate flatness for sleeping inside my rig. The sites seemed mostly flat, but are really designed for tent camping. Highway 180 is on the right (passenger side) of Silver Streak, on the other side of that mound of earth. ![]()
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