Stealth Camping or Layovering
This is a related subject to boondocking and dry camping. I'm not sure I've broached the subject here. We have stealth camped for decades and find it works well in cities large and small even with our...
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greenrvgreen wrote:
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!
While I find much to admire in your post a couple things stand out for me.
The biggest is; WRVPO consistently in almost every post writes as if he is totally intolerant of anything outside of his own idea of what he considers how people should behave and spend their money. If his writing on this site is any indication of his true feelings and world view then that view is very narrow indeed. He comes off not as skeptical but as corrosively cynical and intolerant in my opinion.
Therefore I empathize with the OP on this issue.
There is a small group of like minded individuals that frequent this site that seem to make it their life's ambition to do nothing more than criticize an OP personally rather than engage upon the topic.
“The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.”
? Carl Sagan
