I was in eastern California just south of Death Valley from February until the beginning of March and it rained a lot and I could start to see the green coming out of the ground and of course I had to leave. Family duty called. Someone that I follow on Instagram posted a picture from more or less the same area I was in. So I asked her how the flowers were. She said pretty darn lush... Maybe I'm just not meant to see flowers this early spring. Super bummer, the only place I could probably catch them is in eastern New Mexico up towards the panhandle of Oklahoma if I'm lucky, but who knows. I'm headed back east, going along the I-40 corridor so maybe I'll run into some beauty. More than likely I run into a tornado but hey.
Sounds like you get around a lot boondocking. That was my plan until I got diagnosed with severe onset rheumatoid arthritis last Oct. It has fuk’d me up real good. It has taken away pretty much everything I love to do. I imagine you’ll hit some flowers along the way somewhere. That’s a lot of ground you’ll be covering that got a good bit of water’n this winter. Buddy in Tulsa said things are just start’n to green up, you might hit that up just in time. Same for NM. Don’t count it out just yet! If’n you don’t, oh well. Get’n to see Mother Nature as God presents her to us is always a thing to behold. Even a tornado, from a distance of course!
Yeah I've been living in a camper for a couple of years now. I got to go home to help my father out around his house and do some interior camper rearranging. I also wanted to travel a little bit in the area. It's been forever since I've done any boondocking back east. Of course there's a reason for that but I'd like to give it a go anyway.
Bummer about your arthritis I know two people that have RA and they did injections. I think it helped, I don't know, I've lost contact with them. One of them got struck down with it at the age of 30, that sucks.
My plan is to drive back on the state or county roads once I get past the Rockies in New Mexico. I'm going to see how far I can get before I just becomes too congested. That's the real way to see America.
Went back to Virginia about ten years ago to take care of my aunt until she passed away. It was a long two years. It’s just not like I remember it to be as a small boy. The population density is ridiculous. And not as white as it once was. Beautiful, with much to see in landscape and history, yet I couldn’t wait to get away from it and get back to the open expanses of the west. Boondocking out there seems like it’d be difficult and maybe even a little dangerous?
Yes this RA sucks. I’ve only begun to try to figure out how to live with it. No insurance and make just a wee too much to get assistance. The steroid shots aren’t cheap and since I have had a retina try’n to fall off the wall there’s a chance I could lose sight that eye they said. Guess there’s a blood transfusion that helps too, but they are upwards of ten grand a year. A lifetime of living on the fringe has left me I’ll prepared for this bullshit. Sometimes I think if I didn’t have bad luck I wouldn’t have any at all.
Had plans to sell my house into something smaller and hit the road full time this past winter. On those rural roads as you say to see America. Dammit.
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