Drive night Sleep day Boondocking

If you can actually get a good night's sleep during the day. And if you're able to stay awake during the night. I did 3rd shift (and 2nd and 1st) for a few years. My body never fully accustomed to 3rd. I was still always tired.

I'd think it would take a while to get in synch. Kind of like flying across the pond. It takes a few days to get into the new schedule. You might be drowsy those first few nights.

Johno02 wrote:
and DutchmanSport If you want to party all night, and are able to do it, that is great and I envy you that. but PLEASE don't park next to me!!! I want to sleep at night!

I do not think you read the original post. There is nothing in it about partying all night.


Thanks to all others for your comments. I too usually like to see the countryside while traveling, but when time is short and there is a main destination to reach, I think I would not mind reversing the sleep/drive cycle. I just thought that doing this would open-up a lot more possibilities for one-sleep-period spots.

Anyways, drive safe and get out there and camp!

If you want to party all night, and are able to do it, that is great and I envy you that. but PLEASE don't park next to me!!! I want to sleep at night!

It's kind of like this.

When you are a kid, you refuse to go to sleep, but once down, you refuse to get up.

When you're in the prime of your youth, you refuse to sleep, but have to sometime, so you push day and night to stay awake, and once again, you are forced to sleep sometime!

When you get old, you WANT to sleep, but can't. As a kid you use to sleep 12, 14, 16 hours at a stretch. When old, you get ... maybe .... 3 or 4! Your brain switches "on" after 3 or 4 hours of deep sleep, and that's pretty much it! So now you are old, you WANT sleep and can't!

I remember driving 24 hours non-stop and still had energy to go in my late teens and early 20's. Now that I'm past 60, I can barely drive more than 4 hours, and that's with 6 hours dropped in there for potty stops! (Yea, getting older just sucks!)... Diapers when a kid, and diapers when old again! Well, I'm not old enough for diapers, I can still stop every 15 minutes and use the potty in the camper! Darn, getting old sucks!

So you know, if you are young, and it fits your life style and fills a purpose... sure! Go ahead and sleep during the day! And party all night! There are no right or wrongs when it comes to RVing! That's why we drag our homes behind us, so we can use them whenever and wherever we want!

Sleep? um ... what's that. I'm getting 3 1/2 hours a night now.... what do I do with all the spare time? Fix the roof of the house! nope! To dark outside... um... well ... I'm reading RV.net! (cheers!)

We did this alot in younger days... Leave the honky tonks at midnight and head for the gulf beaches overnite - sleep a few hours during the day somewhere then do it all over again. haha...

Today I have to get off the road before dark and get somewhat setup somewhere - have a good supper and hit the hay... Then back on the road again early the next day...

Roy Ken

Good for you if like it, for me I done my share of shift work when I was working don't want to do that anymore.

Bck in our youger days in So CA and working 5 days a week we'd leave Friday night late and drive our TC all night to get our destination. Have fun Satuday an Sunday and drive all Sunday night to get home.We were thrashed at work on Monday. You have alot time the best way possible.

Sounds like a good theory.

Are you and your wife already working swing shifts? Your bodies are trained to easily (quickly) switch between day-dwelling and night-dwelling?

When I have a long period of time off work, I sometimes slip into night-dwelling easy enough, but switching back to day-dwelling is pretty hard for me. The transition at either end leaves me kinda foggy, I would not want to be operating heavy machinery at high speeds.

Talking with a retired friend, this is the only way her husband would travel. He'd spent his entire career working swing shifts at a salt mine and could sleep any time, day or night, didn't matter. So he'd drive at night and sleep in rest areas during the day, she was just along for the ride.

It's definitely an option if, you have a destination.
I wouldn't like doing it just to save money.

And, like many others, I chose to drive during the day because I enjoy the drive and seeing the landscape.
If I need to drive at night, it's no problem.

Maybe what you are proposing would also work at Walmart and other locations that do not allow overnighting?
Unless it's posted for no RV parking, you would probably be okay.

I can understand why they closed the camping areas as they were a bit trashy three years ago when I looked at them. Shame folks didn't clean up after themselves and ruined it for others.

I save my days for sight seeing and nights for sleeping. There is just too much to see during the day and too many places to boondock at night to catch a good nights sleep. Even traveling I see lots of beautiful country and would hate to miss that by traveling at night. So much for seeing an interesting thing and not being able to stop to investigate.