Date:         Mon, 17 Jan 2000 21:45:13 -0700
Reply-To:     Kevin and Heather <keather@EARTHLINK.NET>
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From:         Kevin and Heather <keather@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject:      Re: Stealth camping, Was: Re: Curtains and privacy...
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My wife and I spent 4 months cruising the US whilst on an extended
drive to Mexico, and had the opportunity to do a lot of 'Urban
Camping'.

We found that hotel parking lots were perfect places to camp for a
night or two.  Suburban Holiday Inn type places were the best. Just
pull in after dark, pull the curtains, and go to sleep. People expect
strange cars to be there all night long, so no hassles at all.  Nice
and quiet too.  And in the morning, if you so desire, just walk on
into the lobby and use the facilities. Just act like you belong, and
you do!

CIty parks are the worst places. You are just about guaranteed a 3 am
flashlight toting cop.
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Kevin and/or Heather

Where have the years gone? Why, into the usual vices of the romantic
idealist: into sloth amd melancholy, each feeding upon and
reinforcing the other, into love and marriage and the begetting of
children, into the strenuous maneuvers of earning a living without
living to earn, into travel and play and music and drink and talk and
laughter, into saving the world - but saving the world was only a
hobby. Into watching cloud formations float across our planetary
skies. But mostly into sloth and melancholy and I don't regret a
moment of it.

Edward Abbey.