Date:         Wed, 10 May 2000 17:53:29 -0700
Reply-To:     Ron Bloomquist <roadcow@MCN.ORG>
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From:         Ron Bloomquist <roadcow@MCN.ORG>
Subject:      Re: Stealth camping: Boston & beyond,
              was stealth camping IN NYC....
Comments: To: "J. C." <jcblues@YAHOO.COM>
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>What I'd like to know is where else is good for
>stealth camping & getting showers.

I stealth camped in the Northrop employee parking lot for six months while
working on the Stealth Bomber.  (I think I told this story before but maybe
there are new members to the list.)

I had been hired away from Boring, yes Boring, in Seattle and was new to
L.A. and didn't know anybody.

Since Northrop had me working 10 hour days, seven days a week...  why not?
I wouldn't be home even if I had one!

So, I would get off work in the late afternoon, drive out of the lot and
head for the beach.  Read a book and watch the sun go down.  Then hit a
Mexican restaurant for dinner and a couple of XX'es.  Roll back into the
parking lot around 10 pm. and hit the sack.  Up in the wee hours to go back
to work.

Walk in a bit early to hit the shower.  Cafeteria at work had breakfast
stuff and lunch.  Piece of cake.

The weekends I didn't have to work I would go camping at Joshua Tree or Los
Padres National Forest.  Only trouble was, I was making too much money and
got goofy.  I bought a MG midget one of my fellow workers wanted to sell and
then I bought a 1974 Harley Davidson SuperGlide from another co-worker!  I
just couldn't pass it up!

So, there I am, shuffling three vehicles around the parking lot!!  That
attracted the attention of Northrop security.  I finally got tossed out of
the parking lot.  They would not even accept my pee bottle as... facilities!
Oh well, by then I knew some guys at work and was able to rent a spare
bedroom from one of them.  In only six months my life in the parking lot had
come to an end!!  ;-)

Here is one more stealth camping idea I can recommend if you don't want to
work for Northrop:

If you are driving the Highway to Alaska there are places called "borrow
pits".  These are places where the road crew gets their gravel for road
maintenance.  You get so you can spot them as you drive the miles of miles.
Because of the gravel extraction they are open areas which means a breeze
and fewer mosquitoes.  They are also a short way off of the highway so road
noise is reduced.  I found them to be... Perfect!

Ron Bloomquist
ROADCOW
VANARU