next relo and winter plans

next relo

I suspect it’s going to start freezing overnight within a week here at 9200ft. If that happens I’ll likely move on to the Santa Fe area where daytime highs will be in the low-to-mid 70s in town.

I’ll stealth in town a bit and boondock outside town on NF and BLM land.

wintering

I’ve always wanted to try out one of the BLM’s Long Term Visitors Area (LTVA) winter sites and this might be the year:

• I have the $180 to buy the pass up-front
• there are proposals to increase the fee 3x
• our Canadian friends are avoiding the US this year due to tariffs and general US belligerence.

The Imperial Dam site is about 20mi outside Yuma so I could make supply runs on the scooter.

I have VA appointments before Christmas but I could leave for Yuma after that. I’m guessing by late Feb or early March it will start getting warm and I might move up to Quartzsite’s LTVA for a bit before that warms up, too. There are things I like to do there in Q.

economics

Let’s say I get 2.5 months at the LTVA (last week in Dec to first week in March). That’s $72/mo, about what my “one gas tank a month” fuel costs are while doing relocations.