Date:         Tue, 23 May 2006 11:57:56 -0700
Reply-To:     Sean Garrett <SEAN.GARRETT@ASU.EDU>
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From:         Sean Garrett <SEAN.GARRETT@ASU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Stealth camping spot and tick warning
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Hmmmmm....
One might construe then that if Hospital Parking lot security does
question you in the lot you could say you have a relative in the
hospital ???

Not really honest but if you need shuteye ....

Sean Garrett
Central AZ
1987 Syncro, 2.5 Subaru (his)
1995 EVC (hers)

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of Higginbotham, David A.
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 11:18 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Stealth camping spot and tick warning

I never really thought about it until this past month but a good spot
for relatively hassle free stealth camping might be a hospital parking
lot. I just finished a two week stint living in our bus at the local
hospital where my wife was in ICU after contracting ehrlichiosis from a
tick bite. You can google it but in short it mimics rocky mountain
spotted fever without the spots. She went too long before she saw a
doctor and developed Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome and Sepsis, in
short very bad mojo for those of us not initiated to medical lingo. A
very traumatic experience indeed but she is home now and on the mend and
I can not fully express how much nicer it is to catch a few hours sleep
in the bus rather than trying to sleep in the chairs in the ICU waiting
room. They would not let me "sleep" in the ICU patient room although I
could "stay" all night. The moral of the story: A) monitor your tick
bites closely and if you get sick within 5-10 days do NOT hesitate to
see a doctor. B) the hospital parking lot is a relatively nice place to
live for short periods of time, albeit under better circumstances than a
sick loved one.

Happy trails,
David and Rene' Higginbotham
82 Westfalia
Silk Hope, NC