Motel 6 for the $69.....
shower & shitter...for less than three 30paks of Bud lite.
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"Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander."- Holocaust Museum, DC
Want a good way to sleep undetected in your car at night? Tint the windows (even the lowest MA allows (35%) will work. And get one of those sun reflectors for the windshield. Paint it a dark color if you have to and put it in the windshield. I have 35% tint and I would be invisible in the car if the windshield was blocked. Granted it wont help if someone has a flashlight but for someone just walking by it will.
ya i have been planning on getting my windows tinted with this as a secondary reason, but i didnt think of the sun shade, good idea!Originally Posted by ryan81986
It is not strange... to mistake change for progress. -- Millard Fillmore
Is this really true? The only other time I've heard of this is the movie Something About Mary, but I've never had problems sleeping at rest stops.
Everything in the Survival sub-section of NES is true... especially if I wrote it.
Seriously....be vigilant and aware of whos around you @ rest stops at night.
Dregs,gypsies,perverts,pedaphiles,drug addicts and nomads need piss breaks & pitstops too.
Hookers & crooks lurk around some truck stops and prey on motorists.
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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.”
-Mark Twain
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
From some experience with sleeping in cars I would not recommend sleeping anywhere other than in the driver's seat, keys in the ignition, maybe even running the car. If you do get disturbed by some miscreant, all you have to do is start up, throw it in gear, and get outta there. If it is comfortable enough, keep the seat more or less up and throw on some dark sunglasses (so no one can see your eyes), this would tend to deter some of the aforementioned miscreants. Just my .02
Uh Huh.
You're kidding right?
Today I saw an interesting truck cap that looked like a ghetto camper of sorts... it actually had an AC unit mounted to the top of it... but it just looked like a bigger than normal truck cap, not a camper insert.
-Mike
"Do this. Don't do that. Stay back in line. Where's tax receipt? Fill out form. Let's see license. Submit six copies. Exit only. No left turn. No right turn. Queue up and pay fine. Take back and get stamped. Drop dead— but first get permit. "
-Robert Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
The author has an interesting outlook on truth. He talks about sleeping outside for a year or six months at a time and then posts this...
Each time I told the truth - I was very tired, and unsure I could proceed to the next motel location.
"As government expands, liberty contracts"...Ronald Reagan
???? HmmmFrom some experience with sleeping in cars I would not recommend sleeping anywhere other than in the driver's seat, keys in the ignition, maybe even running the car. If you do get disturbed by some miscreant, all you have to do is start up, throw it in gear, and get outta there. If it is comfortable enough, keep the seat more or less up and throw on some dark sunglasses (so no one can see your eyes), this would tend to deter some of the aforementioned miscreants. Just my .02
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