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<\/p>\nThere is no place like home. Spent some time today on my rough back road drive towards Cathedral Valley Campground wondering if I would have made better use of this time if I had gone back home instead. I would have had community and some downtime to work out the \u201cperspective\u201d part of this time off.<\/p>\n
Then I realized that if I had, I\u2019d have spent a goodly amount of time wishing I\u2019d gone on an adventure instead, logicing\u00a0that an adventure would give me perspective on full-timing and real out of my head time. I felt like Dorothy all of a sudden \u2013 \u201cthere\u2019s no place like home\u201d and perhaps I had to go on this adventure to find out what is important to me: community and a home base.<\/p>\n
It’s not my home-town that\u00a0I want, but Home: Community. Location.<\/p>\n
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I found out later that there are three ways to access the campground. All are 4×4 recommended, high clearance vehicle required. My route was no exception. The more common route, it seems, is to cross a wash which two days later was impassable. If you cross the Cathedral Valley to come in, you face a rocky, twisty, steep uphill. The way I came in wasn’t too bad, until closer to the campground. Then it got pretty rocky. Glad I have my very capable Tacoma!<\/p>\n
Obviously nice road here, but the photo doesn’t capture how steep this is!<\/p>\n
I saw a couple of these dwellings, but I’m not sure what they are. For hunters?<\/p>\n When I drove into the campground I spotted another FWC! Of course, I drove up to say hello. Turns out, they are on the Wander the West forum too! I parked two spots over from them in the small barebones campground, and we did a bit of exploring down to the overlook and had some wonderful chats that evening. Just when I start to get despondent about life on the road, I meet amazing people out there!<\/p>\n Pugsly used to be so photogenic. You can see the other FWC\u00a0camper there in the background!<\/p>\n Argos and I went exploring and found the cliff edge for some amazing views of Cathedral Valley<\/p>\n Pretty spot to camp for the night.<\/p>\n The dogs were not cooperating for picture-taking. Apparently, something elsewhere was far more interesting.<\/p>\n The view was amazing.<\/p>\n The rocky outcroppings out there looked rather flat when I first arrived. As the sun lowered, the shadows caught up, and gave definition to these structures. Lighting has such an amazing effect on view, perspective, appearance.<\/p>\n I got these photos with my little Lumix point and shoot! Not too shabby!<\/p>\n The dogs weren’t terribly impressed, but they did seem to like it up there.<\/p>\n We had some nice evening clouds.<\/p>\n and a lovely sunrise the next morning.<\/p>\n![\"p1000542\"](\"https:\/\/nodestinationorg.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/10\/p1000542.jpg\")
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