Tinting Windows on TC
I have thought about doing this for stealth camping ,Id like to get a dark tint but Im not sure how hard it would be to look out windows and see outside at night with the exterior lights on and in th...
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I explored the idea of having the TC windows tinted for the sole purpose of being more invisible at night while laying over in more urban circumstances. Notice I said layover, not STEALTH CAMPING! as the very term provokes unreasonable responses as above. What we do is neither stealthy or camping. Finding no good light blocking solution, I'm back to using the factory Venetian Blinds and using very low or no lights inside. There is no cooking or camping going on inside the box. You simply enter, change into your bedtime attire, if any, and hit the hay. The important part is to 'look like' there is no one home; just parked. No steps in the down position; no campground sprawl; nothing hanging on the outside; no change of shape, as in an erected pop up or open vents. I've never felt i was, "getting away with something" in this mode, which has evolved into kind of a game where your trained eye finds the right spot to pull over, mostly right on the street between two white 18-wheelers. It takes practice and experience to be unremarkable in the surroundings.
On a related issue, I'm seeing more and more Vagabonds living in the National Forest around our compound in class C's, small travel trailers and even in vans...."down by the river." One group moves around in a 45 foot, white painted school bus, called a "Skoolie" in hip circles with a pot belly stove with a stack in the middle. They all survived the snows of winter. Some of these are itinerant weed trimmers waiting for the harvest. Many are simply city dropouts because of the very high cost of housing and lack of personal internal drive. There have to be a lot of reasons why people resort to living like this. We've always had the fringies, but they are much more blatant and in-your-face than I can remember. We have had a cadre of people living in the city in old broken down leaky truck campers, small class C's and vans for as long as I can remember; moving every 72 hours. Our tiny church (Trinity Episcopal) feeds the homeless every week throughout the year as do many other denominations in town. I don't see this going away anytime soon.
jefe
On a related issue, I'm seeing more and more Vagabonds living in the National Forest around our compound in class C's, small travel trailers and even in vans...."down by the river." One group moves around in a 45 foot, white painted school bus, called a "Skoolie" in hip circles with a pot belly stove with a stack in the middle. They all survived the snows of winter. Some of these are itinerant weed trimmers waiting for the harvest. Many are simply city dropouts because of the very high cost of housing and lack of personal internal drive. There have to be a lot of reasons why people resort to living like this. We've always had the fringies, but they are much more blatant and in-your-face than I can remember. We have had a cadre of people living in the city in old broken down leaky truck campers, small class C's and vans for as long as I can remember; moving every 72 hours. Our tiny church (Trinity Episcopal) feeds the homeless every week throughout the year as do many other denominations in town. I don't see this going away anytime soon.
jefe
