Here’s why we always go to Campendium first:

Campendium is extremely user-friendly and has a clean interface.

They work hard to provide this great website with its extensive list of RV parks, campgrounds, and boondock sites. Leigh and Brian of Aluminarium are the people who started Campendium. I randomly come across this website sometime during the second month we were on the road and have used it ever since. Now, let’s talk about how we find boondock sites:Ĭampendium is our first and foremost used website to find boondock sites. If you want to get more tips on parking your rig for solar, read our The Art of Solar Parking post. Solar panels get the maximum hours of sunlight when they are faced south and the second-best direction is anything closest to south. When it comes to the sun, it’s not just about how much tree coverage a site has but also whether the boondocking site lets us park with our solar panels facing south.

But ideally, we want to be in a spot that lets us charge our batteries because when it comes to living in a rig powered totally by sola, we have to think about the future and how much sunlight we’ll get later on. And in reality, depending on how fully charged our batteries are, we can go a few days without sun (it was ~3 days when we had lead-acid batteries and we haven’t had the chance to test it out with our lithium batteries). This isn’t an issue if we’re staying in a spot just overnight. Our second concern is whether we can get enough sunlight to charge our solar panels.

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