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As I sit here typing this, I know that my fresh water tanks have 6% water left, our black (toilet) tank is 50% full, our grey (sink water) tank is 81% full, and our battery has 96% of its capacity left. I am loving the fact that I have monitoring systems on the Airstream for when we are boondocking like this. The kids have been biking their butts off here too, which is awesome. The campground is really peaceful, quiet and beautiful and there are great trails to run on. I realized it only takes me 30 seconds or so to rinse off, so I got to stand there for three and a half minutes with the shower running in order to get my moneyвЂ™s worth. Being cheap and unemployed and all, for my first shower, I shampooed my hair and lathered up with body wash before putting in the quarters and getting any water (this is actually pretty tough to do). They even have showers that you have to put quarters in вЂ“ 4 minutes for 75 cents. So while we are officially boondocking here, we are not far from civilization. They do have dump stations for the RVвЂ™s sewage dispersed throughout the camp and water spigots here and there (we avoided the ones near the dump stations) where you could get drinking water though. We stayed at a large campground called Burlingame State Park that had no utilities throughout the camp. We arrived in Rhode Island to find beautiful weather and scenery. We never unhitched the trailer, so we were able to hit the road to Rhode Island early. Thank goodness because we still had no options for air conditioning for the next four nights. By the time we woke up in the morning, a front that brought the rain cleared out all the heat and cool temperatures had finally arrived. Archer put four cooler ice packs from the freezer on herself to help her go to sleep вЂ“ smart girl. We did our best to keep cool with our small USB fans all night. That may not be too bad under normal conditions but we were still in the midst of an insane heatwave stretching over the east coast. We need power hookups to have air conditioning, so that was a no-go.

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When it is storming, you end up having to shut all the windows and ceiling vents and wait it out. When we got there, we set the Airstream up next to a corn field and walked over to the farmвЂ™s market to stock up on fresh produce and other great farm things like honey, jam, and bacon-flavored ranch dressing.ДЄs soon as we walked back to the Airstream, it started to storm and kept it up pretty much the whole night.

The farm we stayed at was beautiful as was that whole area of New Jersey with its hills and farms. We love fresh farm food as much as we do wine and beer, so I think these places do just fine when we stay there.

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We belong to a club called Harvest Hosts where you pay an annual fee to be able to stay at participating wineries, breweries, and farms for free with the understanding that you will likely buy something from them. Our first night boondocking was at a farm in northern New Jersey. IвЂ™ll write about this more in detail later for those that want to geek out on it.

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I upgraded our batteries to have more capacity, installed 200 watts of solar panels on the roof of the Airstream, installed a battery monitoring system, and converted a Honda generator to run off the low pressure propane hookup on the Airstream. I had planned ahead to be ready for boondocking as well (big shocker for those that know me, I am sure). Lucky for us, we are pretty used to this from our previous lives as sailors.

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This requires you to conserve electricity and water more than you typically would in a full hookup type campground. Boondocking is where you are basically camping вЂњoff the gridвЂќ without electrical or plumbing hookups. Tonight marks our fifth night in a row boondocking or dry camping.