Boondocking – Page 2 – On the Road with Dan & Amy

Texas & New Mexico

This post will cover our time moving from Georgetown, TX where we spent time with our friends, Rob and Laura, through the rest of Texas and New Mexico. As we write this, we are now in Benson, AZ at an Escapees Co-Op park for at least 2 weeks. We’ll write all about it in the next blog.

Mooch Docking in Maine

After over 2 months in the Rochester, NY area spending time with our new grandson, we are back on the road once again. Before heading south and west, we wanted to take a quick trip to Maine to visit family and enjoy our original home state. This post covers our first week and a half spent mooch docking (camping for free in a relative’s driveway) at Dan’s sister’s and his cousin’s houses.

South Dakota

Steam Engine Train Ride

After leaving our lonely campground in the Black Hills, we spent a week at the Elks Lodge in Rapid City. While there, we ventured back into the Black Hills to Hill City to ride the 1880 Train to Keystone and back. This is a tourist ride on a steam engine train, similar to the mode of transportation one might have taken in the late 1800’s. The ride to Keystone takes about an hour and then the engine is moved from on end of the train to the other for the return trip. There is no round table to turn the engine around so it actually hooks up backwards for the return trip. They told us this works just as well but does look strange.

Nebraska and The Black Hills

When we left the Casper area of Wyoming and headed to The Black Hills of South Dakota, we decided to route ourselves through Nebraska so we could add that state to our travel map. We stayed at Fort Robinson State Park in Crawford, NE for 2 nights before moving into South Dakota. The weather was beautiful when we arrived in Nebraska but little did we know this would be the last good weather we’d see for a while.

Colorado & Wyoming

Our last stop in Moab, UT was a decision point for us. We originally planned to make our way to South Dakota, our new state of residence, but we started to doubt the wisdom of moving further north this early. We were either going to stick with this plan or head a little south and go across southern Colorado and into Kansas and points east from there. After weighing our options, we decided to stick with the original plan and take our chances on the weather. The decision has had mixed results.