Thank you for bringing this post back up, I had forgotten about it. What I did was to get a camper van and go to Ehrenberg. I camped out on the barren plain for a few weeks and met some people, then went to the RTR and met more people, and went back to Ehrenberg with a group and spent some time camped on the river. The friendships that I made there were very healing and the friends I made are the dearest friends in my life, including some people who posted in this thread. Thank you to Bob for showing how to do this. After being back in the fight here at home for a couple of years, I am ready to go back to camping as a lifestyle.