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Hi Vincenzo. I paid $5000 for the trailer and regarding the 8 months for $300, it is just a BLM property camp site. I have a generator and a good amount of solar for electricity plus the campground has it’s own well for delicious water. There is also a dump station, and it’s only minutes to the town of Lone Pine, CA. It’s a rather nice option if you’re looking to live on the cheap! and
it’s incredibly beautiful up there! I was going to add some pictures but I can’t seem to figure out how to do that….Hi Pippi! I have a Verizon iPhone and am lucky if I can watch a YouTube video! I had a sprint unlimited internet plan that gets absolutely nothing anywhere around here. I will start asking around for anything that works except some kind of expensive satellite internet. When I find something that works I’ll let you know. There are 4 BLM campgrounds this pass is good for and I can move around so if I get some solid info on the best place for internet, that’s where I’m moving to. Peace!
Thank you my friend! I’m currently
at Tuttle creek in Ca. at the base of Mt. Whitney on one of four available BLM campsites. Life is great here, $300 for 8 months of camping! All the comforts of home without the mega rent! Thanks Fuzzy and thanks Pippi for all your hard work! Peace!No problem RBuzz! Your information will help me in the future and I’m sure will help others that are currently in this situation. So actually it’s a good thing you missed a page! We all (especially us newbies) find this info invaluable. Thanks again and hopefully one day we can have a Pippi BBQ party! That came out strange, we’re not going to BBQ you Pippi! Hahaha! Sometimes I crack myself up!
Nothing but Peace and Love to you all!
JimRBuzz, thanks for the input, much appreciated. I don’t know if you’ve read all my postings, but it’s a done deal, and the truck has the tow package, so all is good. One of these days I will upgrade, but for now this suits me fantastically well! Gotta start somewhere, right? All of the great info from all the RVers here will help me and others in the future.
JimHi Pippi and all my fellow Happy Wanderers! Look what I just recieved in the mail! I’m so happy! It will be the last item I add before heading out into the great outdoors! I’ll have to give this some thought as to the best place to put it. Oops, I can’t figure out how to add a picture to this post, so I’ll make a quick, make that very quick, youtube vid…
Thanks fellow Jimmy, you are correct, all Jimmy’s are awesome! and thanks Pippi, all Pippi’s are awesome too, even though the only other Pippi I know of is Pippi Longstocking, but she was awesome as well! Now I can’t get the Pippi Longstocking song out of my head, haha! “I am Pippi Longstocking and I love my funny name”! That’s what happens when you raise a little girl who loved Pippi Longstocking way back in another lifetime, maybe the late 80’s? Anyway, I digress (and divulge my old age)…. Free burgers for Pippi when we do have the giant Pippenings get together! Now that sounds like a fun plan! Mucho love and peace to all you fellow RVers!
Thanks Jimmy! BTW, my legal name is Jimmy also! Haha! Great minds think alike! I am so excited about this transition I can barely sleep! I’m like you, I already had the truck, just smog checked it last month so the trailer seemed to be the way to go, and like you, all I have to do is unhitch, and BAM, off to town or wherever for whatever! See you in the great outdoors! And thanks Pippi for this fantastic forum! We just need more Pippi vids, preferably longer than 2 minutes, you are a wealth of knowledge, speak well and look fantastic! I even watched your belly dancing vids! Add talented to the list. Peace!
JimThanks Frank! Here’s some pics I
took and turned into my very
amateurish YouTube video, but
At least you can check it out
before I start filling it up
with all my stuff. http://youtu.be/CBv9LQOUJqMThanks jkoenig24! My search has ended! I bought a 2005 Mallard by Fleetwood travel trailer, 23ft, tows great with my pickup, had the controller installed for the electric brakes, plenty of room for just little ‘ol 220 lb, 6’2″ me! Haha. It has a seperate bedroom with built in dresser, sofa that turns into a bed, dining table that turns into a bed, central heat and air conditioning, new awning, new battery, new brakes. It was a great deal, unfortunately the sellers son was diagnosed with leukemia so he needed some money fast, for those of you who are Christians you will understand that the Good Lord put us together and the sale benefited us both. I am very happy, everything works perfectly! Now all I have to do is continue weeding out all the crap I have accumulated over the years, donate or into the dumpster depending on what it is. I am one happy camper, haha, and now I can just un-hitch and fly around town getting whatever I need in my truck, not stuck with a class A needing a towable vehicle, and don’t have to pack up everything in a class C if I want to leave for the day, or two! Thank you all for your input on this subject, it really helped me and I’m sure it will help others. Oh, also bought a solar charger for the battery and going to add another battery, bought a 4000 peak, 3200 watt running generator to power my a/c, hooked it up and no problem. Got them both at Harbor Freight ’cause I had 2 coupons totalling $350 off. The generator ended up costing $299 and the solar charger was like $129, so it’s all coming together! Hope to see you all on the road soon! Losing my home unlimited internet is about the worst thing about this whole situation! Merry Christmas to all and a Happy New Year!
JimThanks Frank, I did not know that about 5th wheelers, and I certainly don’t want to buy another truck! I am on a budget and the cash I have will only cover a decent RV, not some luxury rig by any means. I have looked at the 5th wheelers and thought “Darn, those things are nice and roomy”haha, little did I know there was a price to pay for that room! Since my failed spinal surgery I’m on SSDI, so the income is not great, but living in some type of inexpensive RV/trailer for a year or so would allow me to save a nice chunck of change for my Battleship Galactica RV, just have to stick it out for a while in a smaller trailer. It seems the closer you get to $20,000 the mansions on wheels start popping up on my screen! Wish me luck! P.S. I went yesterday and looked at a Class C, sounded and looked good in the ad, till I got there. They were using it as a doghouse for their Husky, the thing was a mess, carpet destroyed, holes chewed in the upholstery as well as filthy upholstery and it really stunk in there! I love dogs, but come on, a $5000 dog house with a 460 engine? I thanked the guy for his time and moved on. That’s my latest RV shopping experience. Merry Christmas to all of you, or Happy Holidays if you prefer. Either way, Peace!
Whatever feels like home, I like that! I agree I’m limited by my half ton pick up, but since it’s just me luckily I don’t need much room, considering the entire world will be my front porch and back yard! Thanks Marks!
Apshoaf, I feel your pain! The options are endless. Then, just when I think I found something, it’s either sold, has some problem I don’t want to deal with like registering an out of state vehicle here in California where the emissions requirements are quite strict compared to other states, or the people just don’t return my call/email. On top of that, as I look at the endless supply of RV’s, I keep thinking to myself “if I only had a couple extra thousand dollars I could get that one”. Haha! I need Pippis’ bumper sticker tattooed on my forehead “Keep it simple”!
Thanks Pippi! A friend told me about how expensive those big tires are, plus not every mechanic will or can work on Class A motor homes, but apparently the Class C’s are easier since they’re basically a van engine/van front end. I’m definitely leaning toward some type of trailer after all this good info. I really don’t plan on travelling too much with it, just set up in the mountains and do what I do best, absolutely nothing! Haha! I will be all by myself so the stopping/drinking/etc., won’t be a problem. I just want the solitude to drink my coffee, read some books and watch some tube (which is a whole separate topic). Right now I’m filling up my hard drive on my laptop in addition to a one terabyte external hard drive, with all kinds of movies and visual entertainment since I have unlimited internet now, but that will disappear as soon as I get out of Dodge. OK, I seem to be getting off base and writing an entire book here, so I shall say “Thanks Pippi and everyone else”.
Happy Trails to you,
Jim
P.S. Excellent idea with this whole blog site/forum!
