Boondocking at a Harvest Host site

"Boondocking" is free camping, taking it's name from camping out in the boondocks.  It's come to mean camping without any hook-ups (no water, electricity or sewer connections).  Here's a link to a data base of GPS coordinates for boondocking sites, should you be interested.  www.boondocking.org

We had our first boondocking experience on Saturday, Feb. 16th when we stayed at a Harvest Host site, Three Oaks Winery.  Harvest Hosts is a membership network that invites RVers to stay overnight for free at over 700 wineries, breweries, farms and more.  For a small membership fee, you get access to the list of all the member sites.  Members are encouraged to patronize the business that is allowing you to stay for free.  It wasn't much of a hardship to do a wine tasting and buy a bottle of wine, in exchange for a free spot for the night.  💗

Our camper has a built-in solar panel on the roof, so our battery stays charged and works for lights, cell-phone charging, and anything else you can do on 12 volts.  We have a water tank, so we had water to wash our hands, flush, and do dishes if we wanted to and we had propane for heat, cooking and running the fridge.  But my number one concern with being without an electrical hook-up was ... COFFEE!  We would not be able to plug in the coffee maker and that was a horror I could not face.  

I have to tell you about the most amazing product we found to solve this dilemma.  This is a single cup pour over coffee maker that I purchased on Amazon.  Click here for link to product.

Using a number 2 cone filter ensures no silt and grounds get in the coffee.

  

What I really love about this is the well that sits over the coffee grounds so you can pour a whole cup of water at once.

And when the water drains over the grounds you have a perfect cup of coffee.  Now that I know I can have coffee, I'm really excited to do more Harvest Host locations and even try boondocking out in the boondocks one of these days! 😀