My favorite guerilla camping tactic is to find a residential street with houses on one side and a park on the other. I pull up on the park side of the street - my favorite place is in San Francisco on a side street by Stern Grove park. It's a very quiet, very nice neighborhood. The trees mask the slider door side, there is no foot traffic, the curb has ramps where, I guess, park vehicles drive into the park, so you can back the rear wheel gently up the ramp, nicely leveling the van. I usually sleep with the sliding door wide open (hate stuffy sleeping quarters) and have never had a second thought about it, nor once had my right to be there questioned. Coby Valley Wagonworks "Intimately acquainted with VW Vans since 1959" Volkswagen Bus, Vanagon, Westfalia and Eurovan Repair and Service Specialists 1535 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., San Anselmo, CA 94933 Voice:(415) 457-5628 Fax: (415) 457-0967 http://wagonworks.com mailto:contact@wagonworks.com
-----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf Of byard Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 5:54 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: stealth camping
You can't be very stealthy in a parking lot...camp on residential streets. Just don't run any interior lights, and of course don't put the top up. I've done this many times, in places I know and places I'm a complete stranger. I think there are enough Westys around so nobody really notices, unless you do something to attract attention. > morning, the parking lot was full. So, my comment on stealth camping is > that I am quite sure that my westy with curtains pulled is much more > suspicious looking then this astro with tint. If you look at the astro, > you can see inside if you look, but who's going to look -- its an > innocent looking van. |
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