Truck Camping on the ragged edge

Less Stuff wrote:

sleepy wrote:
This is about as close to homeless as one could get.

Sleeping in a shopping cart might be closer.... hitch hiking from place to place.

Wearing a diaper would solve another problem.... makes my eyes burn just thinking about it. Bottled water and a sponge...

Setting the ice chest below the tail gate solves the step problem...

Sounds like a self contained truck camper to me...

Are you homeless if you own a home but are out camping?

Sleeping under the stars or in a tent is not truck camping yet many find pleasure in the outdoors.

Being as tall as I am helps with the step problem.
Self contained absolutely not but I can live with that.

Told you this was Truck Camping on the ragged edge!

Oops! I didn't realize that you were serious.

This being the Truck Camper Forum.... not the truck forum.

I guess people all over that are sleeping in their automobiles every night could call them Motor Homes... as long as the car has or had a motor (engine) and it's the only home they have. At least they have a recliner... and can stretch out to their full height.

I think most of us know what constitutes a truck camper. A contained unit that is removeable from the bed of the truck... etc.


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As far as hotels go.... UGGGGG!

Many years ago when I was a college student using my GI Bill I took a lot of courses that had field trips.

I took a geology trip where we would be in the mountains until dark... and then move to another area, stay in a motel overnight and put in the next day in a different type of enviroment.

One night I spread all of the days rocks that I'd collected on the bed in my room to start identifying them. I plugged in the black light that I had with me that had a couple of frequencies. I turned it on to one of them and shined it on the rocks and the bed of course..

Part of my collection fluoresced... but so did the bed cover... every bit of organic material on the bed lite up... there was spit, snot, puke, semen, blood, feces and more... food, drinks, and who knows.

People have sex on the beds covers, they also go to the toilet and don't wipe well... then sit naked on the bed... if you can imagine it... people do it.

Now-a-days it is even worse... drugs are sold, bought, used, spilled, or even made in crack labs in the hotel rooms... you see it in the news everyday.

So, don't try to convince me that hotels and motels are places that are good to stay in.

I think that I'll stay with our truck camper.

I'm sure glad that I didn't take that early retirement.... retiring at 65 has worked out well... and at 75 I'm back in shape.

Good luck to you.