On the Lam

Even I have a hard time believing this, but Ive done it again! I missed my court date!
So I'm on the lam AGAIN. And it's Saturday, so I can't call the Pueblo Cty courthouse and straighten it out. So, thankfully I'm in MON , down the road from BFE. Plan on staying off of the road, even the dirt road I'm on. This is the main road around here. Small-town America. ...I love it!

Your friend,

Fugitive Pat

Crown King Road, AZ.

I had left Southern AZ, where I was checking out an RV Park called Coyote Howls Campground.   It's huge attraction is it's price, and the size of the spaces.  They charge $550/year for a space. 

But it was ~100 degrees F, and I headed back north, to try to find some elevation.  North of Phoenix, I17 starts to climb toward Flagstaff (which is 7000 ft and above , thus much cooler).  I got to about 3000 feet, noticed it had cooled off quite a bit, and it was getting toward sunset.  I had very little money in my bank account, so I decided I would have to find a camping spot. 

I was in the general vicinity of where roads head toward Prescott to the west, and went to freecampsites.net to look for a place to spend the night.

I found this entry on that website:

https://freecampsites.net/#!3979&query=sitedetails

This is for Crown King Road boondock. 

I found a nice place here.  I'm on top of a hill, and loving it.  It is very pleasant, temperature-wise.  It DOES get hot during the day, but if I sit in the shade, it is very comfortable. 
I believe I will stay here the whole 14 days. 

Here's a view toward the West, from my campsite.

Flagstaff.

I stayed in Flagstaff, off of A1 Mountain Rd exit (190) for about a week.
Thanks to my friend Jim's directions, I arrived in the Coconino NF around 2pm. (I think that's the name of this place). It is absolutely beautiful! This is the kind of place I imagined I would stay in as a nomad. I'm staying next to a large meadow that my buddy Jim told me about. Being wide open, there's plenty of opportunity for my solar panel to "get a tan, Man"... lots of rays coming down and generating electrical power and storing it in my batteries.

I can hear Elk calling, and I realized it MUST be hunting season. I'm right, it is. So, I need to put an Orange vest on Lacy. :)

There were Elk and Pronghorn Antelope out here.




Lacy rooting around for snacks   

FSR 518 ... II

Got a little chilly last night! :) My thermometer says it was 20 degrees. I think that's a little inaccurate, but it was cold in the trailer; and that's a fact. The only heat I have is a propane "Mr Buddy".... I don't use it very much because it
1. Generates a LOT of condensation
2. If you forget to do something, you might not wake up. I have forgotten to do something before. Amazingly, I woke up. If I didn't believe in God before, I sure do now. :)

Anyway, my water jugs were outside, and were frozen solid this morning. Hahah. Thankfully, I had one in the truck that was covered in blankets ... So, I could make coffee.

Can still hear Elk calling... wonderful. And it warms up pretty quickly once the sun clears the trees.

FSR 518 ... Favorite spot yet

I'm on Forest Service Road (FSR) 518 in Coconino National Forest.  This is one of the nicest spots I've stayed in since I hit the road 10 months ago.  So far, it's my favorite. 
Very dispersed... one other camper on the other side of the meadow. 

It's hunting season, so there's some traffic from people hunting.  Still very quiet and private.
Which is what I prefer.  I DO like people, and love to talk and even listen at times!  But I prefer solitude the most. 

This is off of exit 190 on I40 West.  Take the first dirt road to your left as soon as you get off of the exit.  Then about 3 miles on a dirt road.  Then there's a large meadow on your left.
Perfect alignment for my solar and trailer.  I like to have the front of the trailer pointing West, and as much sun exposure as possible.  When I park it like that, the door and the window by my bed is on the North side of the trailer, so no direct sunlight on that side.

This is the cleanest camping spot in a National Forest I've seen yet.  Much better than the 2 in Colorado I've stayed at.  They're pigsties compared to this .... haven't seen a single diaper yet.

Arrived in Flagstaff, AZ

Just crossed into Arizona. Man, I'm glad to be back!

(and then, a little later)

A1 Mountain Road

Thanks to my friend Jim's directions, I arrived in the Coconino NF around 2pm. (I think that's the name of this place). It is absolutely beautiful! This is the kind of place I imagined I would stay in as a nomad. I'm staying next to a large meadow that my buddy Jim told me about. Being wide open, there's plenty of opportunity for my solar panel to "get a tan, Man"... lots of rays coming down and generating electrical power and storing it in my batteries.

This place is much nicer than Pike NF and San Isabel NF.... The Colorado campsites in the NF have been trashed so much.  And even though they're cleaner than they have been, they are just trashy compared to this one.  People actually seem to really clean up after themselves here.

I can hear Elk calling, and I realized it MUST be hunting season. I'm right, it is. So, I need to put an Orange vest on Lacy.  

Here's the view from the forest side of the trailer.:H)

Here

Lacy is already covered with dirt from rolling around in it!

She's such a little pig pen.

The view of the meadow on the south side of the trailer.

 My rig.