Escapees park to Sahaurita

I moved from my second boondocking site near Cottonwood to the Escapees park near Congress, AZ where I stayed 8 days. The North Ranch as the park is called has lots that are sold to people who want a home base. Some lots had homes built on them and every combination from a home to just a storage shed. It was interesting looking at all the various ways people set up their lots. 

The overnight area was a large gravel area. Lots of room to maneuver and spread out as well as full hookups. Here was my area. 

They had a cactus garden there that was quite extensive with a lot of the plants identified. 

In the middle of my stay near Congress I drove my Honda to Quartzsite and stayed overnight in a tent. I wanted to check out the area but not in January when the hordes are there. I prefer not to be around crowds. This was my campsite on BLM land.

It was very cold there at night but I was bundled up and kept very warm all night. There was frost on my car windows in the morning. I was in the same area where Bob Wells and gang were but a ways away from them. This picture is looking toward where they were. 

Went back to Congress where this greeted me the last morning.  Time to head further south. 

Water had dripped from the faucet overnight and created a tube of ice. 

On Tuesday, the 10th, I headed to my brother Ken's house south of Tucson. There I parked my RV in line with his fifth wheel and truck camper. Looks like a campground. 

Ken is helping me install the led lights I bought in Quartzsite amoung other things. He told me I could set my big inverter to not charge my batteries so my solar will do all the charging. This means only my heater and induction burner are using grid power. My lights, radio, furnace blower and charging of my phone and other toys are using the batteries which are in turn charged by my solar.  Cool. I imagine I will just leave it like that. No need to waste all that free electricity from the sun. If I am unable to keep the batteries charged up because of weather, I can just have the inverter help charge again while I am plugged into the grid. 

Life is good.