I would like to thank mdoverl for joining and posting. His unique perspective is the most refreshing I've seen here in memory. I hope he continues to post and I would suggest to the moderators that the type of RVing he's doing deserves its own subforum.
In full disclosure, I'm a much greater cynic and scoffer than WesternPark, and I'm a little surprised at how quickly he's jumped to the attack stance. Even if this poster is completely ficticious, I know that this type of camping can be done, because I've done it (in the distant past) in ski area parking lots using my Jeep GC. To me, a tiny Prius just seems that much more "hard core".
To mdover I would say that he's left out an important and very negative aspect to this lifestyle: In cities that have embraced such camping (Seattle and Venice, CA, for example), for every one person like mdover who just wants to live a simple lifestyle and be left alone, you end up with a hundred or a thousand IV drug users, gay prostitutes, etc who simply collect there and set up shop until they are forcibly removed by the same "progressive" societal elements that invited them there in the first place. So in that sense I agree with Western Paark and others who want no part of this.
Camp on, mdover, you rock!