Uh well, hmmm, I am really at a loss for words. My first thought was to say I'm a female and travel alone, but that would make me sound scared. So I'll start by asking are there trees and vegetation that I could "get lost" in? I know there is a lot of desert land. I love the desert but the goats do need shade in the hottest part of the day. Also, will I be frequently visited by the enforcement officials? When I go for public walks in our local farm neighborhoods I receive alot of "are your goats for sale". Goat meat is a pretty good market around here. Thanks for the advice!

My first DH and I starting camping when our son was about four. My husband bought a used van and we remodeled the inside and used it as our camper. Then we had to chance to buy a VW camper that had never been camped in so we bought it and sold the van. We used that for about a year. It had absolutely no power to climb mountains so we ended up selling it and started tent camping. When our son was nine, some friends that moved here from the NW talked us into sewing/building a teepee. That was quite an experience but the end result was some wonderful years of primitive camping, good times and great memories. After DH died, I passed the teepee along to our son and he still alternates between using it and tent camping. It's been 31 years since DH and I made it. I remarried and my current DH had one of the old VW campers when we married and we sold it a few years ago and bought a Class C motorhome with a slide. We've also got a two room tent that we keep on hand in case of family/friends over flow when we're camping. We've camped up to three months at a time. For the most part, I don't mind the cooking or camp clean up. Packing and unpacking is certainly not as tedious with the motorhome but the yearly maintenance & insurance can sure be a budget crunch. We keep threatening to sell it and go back to tent camping or a small travel trailer. I certainly don't see us giving up camping because we enjoy it too much to not do it. We've made a lot of great memories while camping and had some wonderful and awesome experiences that we may never have had otherwise. That's not to say that we don't enjoy trips and nice hotels because we do and most of those trips have been memorable in their own way. Thinking now...we may just be wanderers and adventurers at heart but we're the happiest with mother nature surrounding us.

It is just south of San Clemente. We love our Marines here.

This past weekend I camped at Vail Lake resort, which is out by Temecula. It was nice (toilets, showers, close enough to town if you forgot something). Also, the Temecula wineries are close. It is a little more "desert-y" than mountains and forests, but it was really nice. Here is a link that might be useful: Vail Lake