While it’s politically no longer a true “conservative” haven, nor a deep “red” state, Arizona is bustling, busy, and full of RVer’s doing the full time RV Living.

While out in the vast desert landscape, often surrounded by high mountain peaks, we have met a number of people doing what we are doing. Living in their RV or Van full time.

Arizona provide an almost perfect climate from mid to late November all the way through April. After which time it become hot, hot, hot.

Joelle and I are camped on Arizona State Trust land presently and are enjoying the short winter Arizona days followed by beautiful sunsets, cool nights, and beautiful sunrises to greet us the following morning.

While not as big a challenge for Joelle, I am finding myself still continuing to struggle with not being “busy” sun up to sun down. This life is teaching me to slow down, don’t rush, and learn and listen to those with whom I come into contact each day.

At our present site, we have met a number of folks much older than us. Many of these folks have been living this way for years. Most have become masters of navigating the life of portability.

As with life in a home, so too come challenges which must be met and overcome while out on the road.

Where to source water to fill the tanks, where to dump the black water tanks when it becomes full. Will the solar keep up or will we need to run the generator?

Groceries? When and from where.

In our spot at this moment, we are only a short distance to most of these items, although finding a water source (a free source) proved quite challenging. However, after some significant research, I found an open water spigot at a lovely public park which has been our source of refills once or twice per week.

I am finding loads of photography opportunity while here at our camp. A morning or night rarely passes wherein a photo isn’t ready to be taken.

I thought I could share a few of these with you today.

Click on any image file to see the larger version. The photos here have all been taken from the area surrounding the spot upon which we are presently parked.

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