Tips for TC Boondocking
DW and I have been TCing every year, starting with a 2003 trip to Alaska. Not counting Wal-Mart, we have never boondocked. Now we are considering renting a self-contained hardside as an experiment. Af...
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Stick-Joe,
You make a good point about 'who cares' about the area you have picked to go-to-ground. A good example is night camping in marina parking lots. Many of the folks in broken down old RV's in a marina lot are there night-timing in their RV and day-timing fishing in their 12 ft. dingy, so it's easy to 'hide' there amongst them. However, different marinas have differing rules about over-nighting.
In our little town of Nevada City (pop: 2500) there are 'regular' night-timers in broken down RV's (mostly TC's) who know the city codes of 72 hr. max parking on the street. Every 3 days in a rolling change they are in a new spot, round-robbining the hood. You drive by at night and there are no lights on, shades down, no steps down, no signs of human habitation at all. It just looks like they are parked. Many of them have been around for years in a group I call the 'mobile-homeless'. I see them at our church's soup kitchen feeding the hungry.
in addition, i still like the, "hide in plain sight" approach. You must make a judgement as to whether this will work for each and every prospective night-camp site.
After reading Tioga George's Blog, I see from whence Sleepy got a lot of his ideas.
regards, as always, jefe
Pax in aeternum
You make a good point about 'who cares' about the area you have picked to go-to-ground. A good example is night camping in marina parking lots. Many of the folks in broken down old RV's in a marina lot are there night-timing in their RV and day-timing fishing in their 12 ft. dingy, so it's easy to 'hide' there amongst them. However, different marinas have differing rules about over-nighting.
In our little town of Nevada City (pop: 2500) there are 'regular' night-timers in broken down RV's (mostly TC's) who know the city codes of 72 hr. max parking on the street. Every 3 days in a rolling change they are in a new spot, round-robbining the hood. You drive by at night and there are no lights on, shades down, no steps down, no signs of human habitation at all. It just looks like they are parked. Many of them have been around for years in a group I call the 'mobile-homeless'. I see them at our church's soup kitchen feeding the hungry.
in addition, i still like the, "hide in plain sight" approach. You must make a judgement as to whether this will work for each and every prospective night-camp site.
After reading Tioga George's Blog, I see from whence Sleepy got a lot of his ideas.
regards, as always, jefe
Pax in aeternum
