Boondocking Break *Cheap* RV Park Stopover in AZ for Mundane Chores, etc (Passport America)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ต.ค. 2024
- In this video, I give you a look at the mundane side of our snowbird boondocking travels. Time to do assorted chores, laundry, flush the tanks and get refilled with fuel, propane, fresh water, etc
We stop off at a cheap little RV park in Gila Bend, Arizona. It's located on Interstate 8 between Phoenix/Tucson and Yuma.
I show you around the RV park, dog park, and truck stop. Then explain the benefits of our Passport America discount camping card which gave us 50% at the this Holt's Shell RV park. $11.98 plus tax.
At the end of the video, Anne gets a turtle!
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Thank you for showing us around the RV park! I could not believe the membership price for a stay...not to mention the free dump station and water. Do you have any other memberships besides Passport America? (You may have mentioned this in earlier videos...I just can not remember.) Hard to beat a $44 card that saved you over $200 in fees! Great video!
For a few years, we had the Thousand Trails Zone Pass - www.thousandtrails.com/membership-info Saved us quite a bit over the course of a year but we canceled it once we have the off-grid systems installed and needed RV parks less and less. Also, I got bored of the same parks. Here is a review I did - www.loveyourrv.com/thousand-trails-zone-camping-pass/ Cheers! Ray
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Did google the place and found it called them and they do not take reservations it’s first come first serve. They don’t now accept Passport America however the Spaces are under $23.00 with all tax and what ever so that’s still a wonderful buy. I live in California where State Parks with no hooks or Wi-Fi can be $50. With Tax and senior discount. I am going Tuesday to one on the Pacific Ocean at Fort Bragg MacKericker State Beach and Camping
Thank You
Also I am watching on my phone so the map was way to small to see. I noticed on Google it’s East off 85 at the 8 not west to Yuma so if you come down HWY 85 turn East on Interstate 8 to Holts Shells truck Stop.😊 Thank You so much
Thanks Ray, this place is on our list for this winter!
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Ray nice vid and info
Thanks for the great stop over location.
Holt's truck stop, RV and *_helicopter_* park! ;-)
It was just too cool not to include. :)
We'll be using your link when we get signed up. Thanks for the Gila Bend tips!
Hi Ray, we were there Jan 15,2019 and went down to the KOA down the street. Nice scenery, but cold the month we were there. Safe travels.
What an awesome place to stay, gonna have to add this one to the list, thanks for sharing
You bet. Cheers, Ray
Don't know why it took me so long to find you but I'm enjoying your channel.
Definitely not scenic but for $12 it's a good pit stop.
Thank you Ray & Ann!!
Thanks for the PA park info. We joined the club last year. Like it so much we renewed over the holidays for another 5 years.
I purchased a subscription to Passport America via your link the other day. Once I started getting into the specifics, I found many of the RV parks don't accept the discount on weekends. I am still a weekender/Vacationer so my usage of this membership is going to be limited. I will try to use this when on vacations that allow me to be in the RV during the week. Thank you for sharing this with us.
Many times you can call ahead to the RV parks and they will bend the dates if they aren't busy. It's all at their discretion so they can have the business or not. ;)
Rocky the turtle! lol another great video. Really like your tech videos too
I will Def buy our Passport America from you! Ohhhh, I want a T-rex metal art!!!! I'd go there just for that...then I'd tie it to the roof of our suv!!!!! (Since I couldnt put him on the hood)🤣😂🤣😉😛👍🤪😘🙋♀️😅
Good informative video. Good look around. One stop shopping.
Hope you guys make it to Apache Junction fine, if you had little time like to stop by and meet you guys
Soooooooooooooo jealous! They were full when we rolled in back about the 9th. I so wanted to stay there. Too many RTR'ers there I guess. Thanks for the vid. :)
Ues, I imagine it gets really busy on both sides of the big Quartzsite convergence, its just about the right distance away for a stopover.
My pup would be too busy barking at the dinosaurs to concentrate on "doing her business". Great little place, gotta keep that one in my memory banks.
Hey Ray! Great relaxing video as usual and glad to hear excitement in your voice!
We are about 128 days from full timing if all goes well and our house sells by June of this year. We just purchased a 'new to us' 2016 Grand Design Reflection 337RLS and are so happy with it and the outstanding customer care we've received from Tom Schaefer's Super Store in Shoemakersville PA. Just south of Hamburg.
Hope to make it out to the West Coast, or at least Arizona, this ti,e next year...we'll see!
Take care,
Mark
Awesome! not too long to go now. :)
Look forward to watching your videos...very informative. Like your lay back style. Good job.
Thanks!
I noticed the watch for rattlesnakes sign. My wife would freak out seeing it. Are you just turtling?
haha, tell her don't worry those signs a mainly for the warmer months, too cold in the winter for those cold-blooded varmints. :)
Hello Ray, Saw you on Hebards Travels a few weeks ago and really enjoyed the video. I have started following you and I am catching up on past videos. I really like the places you go and the way you use the satellite photos to show your route. Thanks Reed
Hi Reed, don't think it was me on Hebards Travels unless I'm losing my mind, which could be the case. :) haha
Anyway, thanks for following and watching. Cheers! Ray
Oh well, I found ya somewhere. Enjoy your travels.
We are staying at the Air Force Air Field, just down the road.
Speedy, the turtle!
Good video I really like hearing reviews about RV parks and other places as well
Hi Ray, thanks for the tip on Saddle Mountain BLM area. We are there now... Looks like we just missed you. Beautiful view of the mountains👍
Did you go to Painted Rocks monument? There's a nice little campground there but no hookups, of course.-
Yes, we went and did a bit of a drive through to check it out. Nice spot. :)
Thanks for sharing this. Looks like a decent place to re-charge.: )
Where you staying in Phx area? Been following and building my solar system quite similar to yours. Picture Looks like Lost Dutchman State Park.
Ya, at Lost Dutchman. Beautiful park!
Hey Guys, if you are in florida heading over to Ocala/Silver Springs check out the Barberville Yard Art Emporium at the crossroads of hwy 70 and hwy 40. hugh metal dinosaurs , Iron Man, and other really cool art and mexican stuff like you were showing at the shell station.. things I have never seen before. We spent a hour or so just looking around and going WOW.. look at that.. LOL
Spumone. Like the ice cream. Coz that turtle is from where it's hot and he has lots of pieces to him! Spumone the Turtle!
Eeeek "Watch for rattlesnakes" you didn't mention that.
I keep looking but never saw one yet. They like it really hot out and I don't guess that's why. ;)
Do you carry an extra propane tank or was filling one. Great looking place to rest.
Our fifth wheel trailer has 2 - 30 lb propane cylinders. When one empties it auto switches to the other and I take the empty one to get a refill.
Thanks Ray. This might help us when we make our Dream Western Trip™.
Awesome. :)
Thank you, just added it to google maps RV Parks. Already a member. Passport America paid for itself the first 2 nights out last year.
I gotta visit this place!
Really like the Passport America. Some pretty old but basic and cheap!
Passport America is a great deal. I even managed to use it last summer (bad season for Passport America) and it was great option to Walmart parking when just passing through an area.
Ray, did you do a video on your water filter for your RV? If so, can you share the link for it with me? We would love to hear more about it. Thanks.
Yep, a little while back - www.loveyourrv.com/clearsource-rv-water-filter-review-install-mod/
At 4:11 did someone leave one of those nice water pressure reg's behind? Along with a "T"...
Seems you were re-filling tanks from another water faucet...
Just wondering... I have left a couple of those behind... haha
haha, I've left one behind, too. On the depart checklist now. :) That was my regulator I was just borrowing the next door tap as my normal 25' fresh water didn't reach, save grabbing another hose.
Right on... I was just looking through Passport America's Web Site...
Seems like a real good deal... Lots of RV parks... Lots of new parks also
At $44.00 I will be using your link soon...
Thanks for the "Shameless Plug"!
SB
I have been through there several time. Gila Bend is a ........
How often do you actually use passport America? I noticed no water regulator, do you not use one anymore? Glad to see you folks are looking well. Thanks for sharing your travels.
I was filling up my freshwater tank using the next door empty campsites water, my hose was too short to reach from mine, the regulator was left on my tap, I don't need it to fill the gravity fed fresh tank, just for the city water input.
We mostly boondock but we've used Passport America for 11 nights in RV parks this trip so far after over ten weeks on the road and saved 200 bucks over the regular rate. We paid full rate for 6 nights at other RV parks. So we have only stayed in RV parks 17 times so far in 76 days on the road. Frugality is one of the reasons we are still on the road nearing 7 years now. :)
Hope that turtle that Ann picked out wasn't to ginormous for you...Angie might have a second thought about that.
Alfonso is a good name for the turtle......maybe..idk what do you think?
Do you worry about snakes and your dog when your walking around in the desert?
Depends on the time of year. Snake and scorpions don't like cold weather, so they generally are only active once the temps get to be quite hot like above 85F along with warm nighttime temps too for several days in a row. We tend to follow mild temps so avoid encountering them. I've actually seen or heard 0 rattlers and only a couple scorpions in 7 winters coming to the desert.
Nice area Ray to kick back and get some stuff done,thanks for sharing,got one question,when i renew my passport america,can i give you the credit or is it renewal only.thanks see ya.
Good question I'm not sure about that one. I'll have to check into it.
Got a link to that snazzy filter set up you showed?
Yes, I reviewed it a few weeks back - www.loveyourrv.com/clearsource-rv-water-filter-review-install-mod/ Cheers, Ray
Dinasor there to scare the poop out of the dogs
No name your turtle slowpoke cuz they are slow lol.
Please say what Hwy is on and And say it’s between this town in that town approximately you know so many miles so that we can find it because giving something like saying it’s holes in the desert oh my God you know that’s like a needle in haystack thank you
If you look at the first 8 seconds of the video I show a map with the place pinned with name and town its located in. ;) So, you could open up Google Maps and enter - Holt's Shell Gila Bend AZ Cheers, Ray
I'd pay $20 a night not to be in ear shot of that gd barking dog.
Quite the busy corner there in Gila bend. I stop there often and like to go get a subway sandwich on my way to see my parents. Are you headed toward Tombstone this year?
Don't think so this season. Likely hang around in western AZ for the most part. I'd like to get up into Cottonwood, Sedona, and Flagstaff this spring when the weather warms.
If you wanted to camp near Tombstone I know a place. My father has some land and would let you stay for free. Just let me know if you decide to get over that way. Doesn't even have to be this year either...
Cool, thanks.