Queen of Stealth

first night camping report:

crawled into car around 11:00pm

between the full moon and the outside light it

was awfully bright without curtains

even with a few clouds i enjoyed a stellar

view of the stars before drifting off to sleep

dreamed about stealth camping in a residential

neighborhood with a plethora of friends and

acquaintances showing up throughout the dream

i live in the country and don't have close

neighbors   (.....very strange dream)

woke to the sound of gentle tapping and 

was immediately reminded of finding a 

mouse in the car last summer

realized the sound was rain...  grabbed keys....

leaned over front seat to start car and roll windows

up....

SET OFF CAR ALARM

(cue the police song king of pain and insert

queen of stealth...sigh)

after much fumbling managed to get

alarm turned off

potty break

pulled blanket over head and

slept until morning

first night:   done!

Yep....I'm Cra Cra

this time every year i get all hepped up and want to 

plant flowers everywhere. i do dearly love me some

flowers! this area across my front porch always gets

too much sun during our hot southern summers for 

anything to do really well so this year i decided on

succulents and lemon balm.

another reason for the succulents...i'm hoping to take a

few road trips this summer. i really...really...really would

like to have a class b rv....like a pleasure-way:

truth is...i can't afford one...and if i had one

i couldn't afford to keep insurance on it plus my 

car. i have a honda fit:

 

the back seats lay down and make a nice cargo area

for hauling things around....which i'm wont to do...so

i thought...hmmmm...maybe i can use my car to camp

with. well...i immediately got lost in you tube land 

because....wow....there are bunches of folks doing this!

it appears to be some kind of new movement to do

"stealth camping" in modified conversion vans and 

cars.....who knew? it sure looks like something that

can be done on a shoestring budget.

here is an interesting video of a woman my age that 

travels across the country in her prius... which size wise

is pretty much like my car. i know the whole "bathroom"

thing will probably freak most of you out but as someone

who spent a lot of time hauling horses around and camping

in the boondocks...i've already done my share of this kind

of thing. i think i really need to give this a try...my honda

gets 40 miles to the gallon and i could do a lot of road

tripping with this set up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suiPFn3xa2E