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THere's this phrase "good enough for Government work." I wonder if MVUMs are a victim of that, if they're contracted out.

N. Charleston strikes me as too dangerous to car camp. W. Ashley is where that guy got killed sleeping in his SUV about 2 years ago. Mt. Pleasant is so boring I wouldn't even need encouragement to move along. I've done the Francis Marion. Not worth it as forests go. It's just not a...

Yeah you'd think they could update some of these maps more frequently. Sure I can stop at a FS office and have them put X's through stuff that isn't passable, or just read their road closure notices outside the office after hours. They're often on the ball like that. But the FS office isn't...

Aside from cost, and the circumstances under which it can be used, I've not been thrilled about its size or theft risk.

I think the public generally overstates the value of what is taken. I've had several battles over electrical outlets in public parks before, not at picnic shelters. The public tends to imagine that massive amounts of someone's electrical bill are being taken from the taxpayers, when actually...

It is true that I use a fullblown "desktop replacement" laptop that has 3 wifi antennae in it. My iPod doesn't get anywhere near the range. That's a pretty crap McDs though if you're not getting an ok signal somewhere in the parking lot. I've been able to get one in 95% of McDs I've been to...

I have some advantages for LEO interaction. 1) I've done this professionally, with mall security guards and the occasional cop breathing down my neck or doing something inappropriate, although most have been professional. I may be angry about some of these experience but I usually handle it...

I don't gripe about LEOs who do it politely, "just checking up," not asking me for ID. I've had that experience with enough cops to know the difference. Cops shouldn't be going on fishing expeditions and they shouldn't be interrogating people with ID checks just because they "look different"...

Well, if there was really no legal issue involved such as opening hours or use fees, here's an anecdote of how it ended the last time I ran into something like that. I've arrived in some small coastal town just over the Florida border. Georgia to the north. There's a park, there are no stated...

I'm curious about the local "loitering laws". 1st time in 4 years any cop in any city has accused me of "loitering". This was also absent any residential complaint, they seemed to have taken this point of enforcement on their own near Waterfront Park. Which deprives me of sitting in my car...

You really think civilian GPS is going to be accurate enough, and your shovel mighty enough, for the kind of landscape changes I mentioned earlier? Have you been in a NF and seen a bridge and a road well, just, gone?

Totally inapplicable I'd think. Asheville is an artsy, edgy, hippie, yuppie, Biltmore tourism kind of town. Lots of organic foods and such. I mean, sure, people might be intrigued by a novel and totally not-fitting the landscape kind of act, but I'd be surprised if you'd clean up with it...

But the general population isn't living out of cars. Recalibrate your statistics for the correct demographics. Then add choices based on your behavior, like parking somewhere dumb, and it's not about averages anymore.

Never once have I parked in a public park after hours. The rules are always posted, and breaking them is a good way to get LEO attention. Why would anyone expect things to be set up any differently? It's not like there's nowhere else to go. Parks are for hanging out during the day. Some...

Didn't know that. But moot, because my initial reply was going to be "sleep in Durham, are you insane?" That town is a crime pit. They have one bright spot around the American Tobacco Campus where everyone goes for ballgames, the theater, restaurants, etc. Everywhere else... scaaaa-rrry! I...

"Bored on the Board" is one of the descriptive phrases. These people used to have jobs where people had to pay attention to them. Now that they're retired / drummed out, they lack relevance and can't control anybody. So they seek new people to try to control. The retirees who don't have a...

You can die in places like that. http://www.abcnews4.com/story/24024597/sentencing-under-way-in-marly-lion-murder-trial This was just some BBQ joint on a major highway through the West Ashley area of Charleston. You would not pick this road for especially dangerous, to look at it. However...

I poked around in Eastern WA hard enough on forest roads to find some funny things on my Motor Vehicle Use Maps. Twice I found some roads ending juuuuuust next to each other. Like surely, those roads were touching at one time. Maybe the map is wrong, they're still touching now? So I drive...

Obvious places work fine. I always park in places that people don't have a strong vested interest in defending as their turf. Not in front of a nice business after hours or during their daytime business hours. Not in front of a single family detached dwelling. Not in the empty undeveloped...

Lots of musician street performers in Asheville NC and no way anyone's making that kind of money. First off, too many street performers in a small area. Second off, if that kind of money was sitting in their hat or guitar case in front of 'em, the druggies would run by and grab it. They do...