Scary things encountered
One night back when we were pulling a Travel trailer, we awoke to the trailer shaking violently, dishes fall out of the cupboards and all. Grabbing a flash light and running out side, I come face to ...
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A couple for us.
Late one night we pulled off for a break. We were in between Lakeview, Oregon and Winnemucca, NV, on a desolate stretch of highway about 100 miles from anywhere. We headed down a dirt road about 1/2 mile off the highway to sleep for the night (a spot I'd used before). Kids tucked in and I was just drifting off to sleep when I heard a vehicle on the highway -- loud sound of mud tires and a v-8 engine was easy to hear due to the lack of any trees or anything between us and the highway. Heard the vehicle slow down and stop, quiet for a minute, and then heard it coming down the dirt road until it stopped right next to our trailer. Loud death metal playing and several male voices. It drove around the trailer a couple times, I heard a door open and close and footsteps walking around, but no more voices. Don't know how long they were parked there walking around -- probably 30 seconds to take a leak or something, but seemed like forever, and then the truck finally pulled away. Who knows, we were probably just parked in their drinkin' spot or something, but I was wide awake after that!
Another time, also boondocking in the mountains of So. Oregon. After sleeping the night, I noticed something off in the trees and down the hill a little bit. I started to walk down there and suddenly noticed 5 or 6 guys sitting there with eyes on me. What I saw was an edge of a large tarp structure that housed I don't know how many people.
I made eye contact with one of the guys and he said "just makin' sure you aren't coming down to steal any of our stuff ...", which I found rather ironic, since I had $50k worth of stuff parked next to their $20 shelter! But it was creepy to know that people had been walking around our campsite and potentially watching us all night and we didn't even know it!
Late one night we pulled off for a break. We were in between Lakeview, Oregon and Winnemucca, NV, on a desolate stretch of highway about 100 miles from anywhere. We headed down a dirt road about 1/2 mile off the highway to sleep for the night (a spot I'd used before). Kids tucked in and I was just drifting off to sleep when I heard a vehicle on the highway -- loud sound of mud tires and a v-8 engine was easy to hear due to the lack of any trees or anything between us and the highway. Heard the vehicle slow down and stop, quiet for a minute, and then heard it coming down the dirt road until it stopped right next to our trailer. Loud death metal playing and several male voices. It drove around the trailer a couple times, I heard a door open and close and footsteps walking around, but no more voices. Don't know how long they were parked there walking around -- probably 30 seconds to take a leak or something, but seemed like forever, and then the truck finally pulled away. Who knows, we were probably just parked in their drinkin' spot or something, but I was wide awake after that!
Another time, also boondocking in the mountains of So. Oregon. After sleeping the night, I noticed something off in the trees and down the hill a little bit. I started to walk down there and suddenly noticed 5 or 6 guys sitting there with eyes on me. What I saw was an edge of a large tarp structure that housed I don't know how many people.
I made eye contact with one of the guys and he said "just makin' sure you aren't coming down to steal any of our stuff ...", which I found rather ironic, since I had $50k worth of stuff parked next to their $20 shelter! But it was creepy to know that people had been walking around our campsite and potentially watching us all night and we didn't even know it!
