There is nothing like being free from jobs that diminishes your energy during the week and confines you to a couch/bed every weekend, or you’re running around like a crazy person trying to get everything done before it’s time to return to the rat race on Monday.

I used to wonder, if I would ever be afforded the opportunity to find my own path or chart a new path for myself as an older adult.  Currently, I am living the life that I never thought I would live, but I know it’s only because of God’s blessings – that I am living on the rim of freedom, but not without many hardships including the deaths of family members, co-workers and friends.

Now-a-days, I travel from state-to-state, city-to-city and country-to-country without a plan or burden. I didn’t know before February 2018; how nice it would be to roam from place to place without rushing here and there due to a job.

 However, now I can tell you, this life-style of staying in areas until you’re ready to leave, meeting other campers from all over the world, taking pictures of beautiful/strange terrine; looking at mountains, clouds, sunsets and stars is wonderful. Sometimes, you might stay so long in an area that it becomes home.

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Long-Term Visitor Area (LTVA) allows you the opportunity to do just that; stay for seven-months (September 15 to April 15), just by paying a fee of $180. Further, you don’t have to stay at a particle LTVA. Instead, you are free to roam from desert campground-to-campground in different States until the snowbird season ends.

I have stayed at La Posa South and La Posa West, both BLM properties are in the desert of Quartzsite AZ. Currently, I am staying at a BLM property in Yuma AZ. Soon, a few friends and I will cross state-lines and do some shopping in Mexico.

I have included pictures taken in areas I have lived below:

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