Sean wrote: >I've lived in my van for the last year and half, parking on city streets and >friends' driveways all across the USA. I created "crude home made curtains" : > Let me tell you, there's nothing worse than having to crash in your van >and waking up to the police pounding on the sliding door. The fact of the I don't think you can totally block out signs of activity with any kinds of practical curtains. The human eye is amazingly light, sensitive and the smallest light flicker slipping through can be detected. (Just one photon is needed to change the rhodopsin in our foto-receptors from trans to cis form. A few more might be needed to actually make the brain listen in (depending on prior beer consumption). In addition, not only light but also noise and rocking of the bus will reveal activity within. A better tip: Before dark seek out a good intended camping spot, but don't linger there. Instead go do all activities somewhere else. Only go back when it's time to turn in, and do it with a minimum of stray light and noise. This tip is out of Lonely Planet for bike camping in China. However, we found the Chinese to be friendly towards us and never needed to use it there. It has served me well in the US instead. /Martin -- Westy 1.9l Turbo Diesel Quantum 1.6l Turbo Diesel New and used parts for sale, gas and Diesel: http://www.cs.yale.edu/~jag/vw/forsale.html Martin Jagersand email: vwjag@hammer.cs.jhu.edu Computer Science Department Johns Hopkins University Slow down and visit the VW diesel Westy page: WWW: http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/jag/vw ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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