On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:26:20 -0500, you wrote: >And obviously you'll want to have some street smarts wherever you go - if >you don't know how to tell, visually, between a good urban neighborhood and >a potentially unsafe one, you might want to practice. Obviously don't leave >your loaded van parked in a neighborhood that might look a bit dicey. Don't >drive through strange neighborhoods in the middle of the night. Figure out >where you're sleeping while it's still daylight, if you plan to stealth >camp, so you're comfortable with the area, then return later to park and >spend the night. I grew up in Chicago so I have some "street sense". I tried to describe that to a friend of mine who had grown up in "smalltown". The best description I could think of was ... ... if there are vulnerable (young people, old people, women not in large groups) walking around the neighborhood, then it's probably safe.
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