10 Best Places to Sleep on the Road While Urban Stealth Camping

one of the most common questions I'm asked is where do I sleep this week I'm going to cover about ten of my favorite places that I'll usually look for when I'm traveling on the road people writing in and asking me where can we find places to sleep what are the safest where can we stay for the night without being asked to leave this week I'm going to cover that so sit back relax and we'll be right back when I turn 50 I sold my business I bought a band and now I travel I live day to day and mild to mild I spend my time searching for the perfect picture the perfect shot I look forward to every day and discovering more fantastic journeys so the bio would hammer out some of the least likely places I like to stay I would have to say that motels and apartment complexes I've spent many a night in the parking lot of a motel you typically want to choose a real busy motel not a small mom-and-pop operation the same thing with the apartment complexes if I'm going to stay in an apartment complex for the night I would typically pick one that has lots and lots and lots of apartments and lots and lots and lots of cars I stay away from condos or townhouses people tend to have a little more pride in ownership and tend to keep them keeping the eye out on what's going on in a neighborhood and what's going on in the street not recommended shopping malls I look for shopping malls sometimes I'll always look for open 24 hours a day grocery store are those my favorite I could run and grab some groceries or I could grab some snacks and usually there's a restroom there if I wake up in the morning and one access to a restroom I can get it BLM land and Forestry Service land those are mostly out on the west coast those are big big tracts of land that are set aside the attractive part of BL Emily is that you can usually stay for more than one night sometimes as much as a week or two and if you're looking to set up camp in one area for a long period of time on the cheap I recommend that the downside is that oftentimes your Menna tees are like far away and getting water and the shower could be challenging if you don't have onboard water I am a little hesitant sometimes about sleeping BLM land simply because you never really know what's going on out there in the desert you really never really know what what sort of drug trafficking or what kind of cartels or using those those lands sometime for for their meetings and you know I've heard stories of people having trouble out there when they're by themselves but it's like anything else you know be careful you be cautious and you can utilize those those lens for for a week or two at a time and they're a great place to set up and camp long-term boondocking feel a little more comfortable sometimes with a group and sharing big spaces on BLM land with groups that's that's ideal that really is especially if you can go to three for ten people fifty hundred people have you meetups out on BLM land a great place to do it so just a few things to remember at nighttime I usually lock my doors I usually leave my keys in my ignition I usually put a black t-shirt over it so no one can see that the keys are in my ignition one other thing I keep real handy at nighttime is this bear spray made for bears works real real well on people be careful though you may need to borrow my team carry that in some states because see those can be a great place to crash for the night you always see tons of nomadic travelers utilizing the parking lots here great spot to have some dinner kill some time and sleep safe here's a bit of a strange one car dealerships yes I've slept in parking lots of car dealerships I usually look for the service area and park next to the place where people would drop their cars off and if by pure chance you happen to find a car dealership of the same brand of van you're driving you get bonus points all right so here's a neat little trick I learned I want some hot water I want to wash up so what I do is I line up some small individual water bottles on the dashboard and turn off the defroster and I mean it doesn't take long usually about 15 20 minutes so you have to kind of plan ahead well here we are at Walmart maybe the number two place I most commonly sleep that you will need to be careful though and some Walmart's it is posted for no overnight parking so we're at the Walmart and I'm just gonna say this I'm gonna stay here tonight but I sure as hell I'm gonna make damn well sure that I blend in with everybody else cuz that poor bastard over there just parked in the big-ass RV and if the manager comes out and tosses his ass out well I just assumed blend in with the rest of these cars cuz in a black man with blacked-out windows no one's gonna know what the hell I'm doing so good luck to you mr. Winnebago and then of course there's no marks at the complete opposite end of the spectrum that's Walmart's that are taking in more campers in our fears then they actually are taking in shoppers go figure Walmart parking lot st. Augustine it's like driving through an RV park [Music] [Music] I spend most of my tend to be rest areas and truck stops like deaths here in Missouri it was about 15 degrees when I woke up in the morning BRR and here's another in Texas I pulled in too late at night in my opinion truck stops all seem to be fairly safe most of the people here including truckers of course all want the same thing a good night's sleep a safe place to get off the road and while you're here most of them you can grab a shower and some food and fuel up and I've got to say you know some of these showers in these truck stops are actually cleaner than some of the showers and the hotels I've stayed in I'm making a little child I got some sausages I want to cook up a lot of the food that I cook I cook when I'm stationed at home base so that it's not raw so we got a little potato salad a little macaroni salad some sausages meal fit for a king or putting up shop don't got to wash one pan working on my social media for a little bit the height of the people at home and get a good night's sleep camping at the Walmart some call it lot docking parking lot docking I call it home but tonight yes that's it [Music]

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Published: Sun Apr 01 2018