When we first came up with the idea for our Coverage? app a few years back (it overlays the four major cellular carrier’s data maps) – I immediately remembered the app I craved that first restless night, and wondered if we could do something similar with maps of publicly owned lands.īut after a bit of research – we put the idea on the back burner until we could either find time to manually create public land overlays, or perhaps some public domain source of data in a usable format. I shook Chris awake and told him we had to leave. Sure is pretty… but is it BLM?īut I awoke at 5am with nightmares of a sheriff, a rancher, and a cow (don’t ask) banging on our door to rustle us out.
Learning that – I was able to get to sleep at last.
Well, most of Utah it seemed actually, and we were in Utah. I could however confirm that the BLM did manage land in this general area. but this was our location.Īnd there was no easy way to cross reference our current location on the rudimentary high level BLM maps I could pull up on their website. Online maps weren’t nearly this good back then. We had a horrendously slow very weak 1xRT signal, and I huddled over it missing my first in-the-wild sunset trying to find anything online that would tell me we were ok for the night.īut no maps I could access showed local BLM land boundaries.
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Or at the very least a ‘ OK to Camp Here‘ sign.īut there was nothing to indicate that we were actually on public land.Īll I could think was – what if we had pulled on to some rancher’s private road, and he was loading up his rifle now?Īt the time, I was packing a Windows based smartphone with internet access.
Or maybe a park ranger greeting us with wine & cheese and personally inviting us to stay the night? I think I was expecting a bright neon ‘ BLM Lands welcomes you, Cherie – rest well!‘ sign or something. He kept cajoling me to come out and join him. I’m inside the trailer – a nervous wreck.Īfter parking, Chris got out to admire the amazing sunset. It was our very first night boondocking in the wilds together. He pulled off Interstate 70, and tucked us in on a pull out down a side dirt road.
No campgrounds or rest areas were serendipitously found, and as the day was drawing to a close with the sun setting in front of us, I was getting more than a little uneasy.īut then Chris mentioned that he thought we were surrounded by lands owned and managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and we could probably park nearby overnight with no worry. This had been Chris’s typical style before we met, but being a planner myself I was still getting used to embracing diving into the unknown. This particular morning nearly seven years ago, we left Arches National Park in Moab, UT and we didn’t have a specific plan for where we’d stop for the night. We were working our way west into the vast wilderness and abundance of public lands. We were keeping a steady pace, working our way from landmark to landmark on our maiden voyage together – trying to combine seeing as much of this great country as we could while still in a hurry to get to a wedding in California.
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My crazy adventure of full time RVing had just begun, fueled by biodiesel and the “anything is possible” energy of a new romance.Īfter a hectic couple of weeks of the typical newly-on-the-road chaos, we were now exploring on our own schedule. Just a couple weeks earlier I had left my stationary home in Florida and set off across the country in a small 16′ trailer with Chris.
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