I totally agree with Steve on this. If you are sneaking around you are far more suspicious than someone who is just upfront about it.<br>In my little town if a LEO sees you parking on the street to sleep and it catches their eye enough to wake you up and tell you to move, they direct you to one of the dirt areas where it is ok to park for the night<br><br>We have put up the resources for that on here in several threads. I have them all bookmarked in my computer. If you research that a bit you will find boondocking websites and freecampsites.net, etc.<br><br>We had a member of Yahoo Vandwellers forum who traveled the entire US for three years by herself in a Class C motorhome and almost never stayed in a campground or RV park. She stayed in parking lots everywhere she went and was never bothered once in the 3 years.<br><br>I think it is easy to get paranoid about how much you will be bothered while vandwelling.<br><br>In all the many years of my vehicle camping, traveling and living in the US, Canada, Mexico, Belize and Guatemala, I have only been woken once by a LEO and it was in Texas in a truck stop where I had asked and gotten permission to stay the night....go figger! Actually it kinda made sense and he was just being cautious which served to make me actually feel more secure. This truck stop was very remote and had two women only working the night shift...the women I had asked had gone off shift and forgotten to tell the next two I was there. I had out of state license plates and the cop did the right thing.<br><br>The lesson for me was that when he knocked and asked me to "open up, it's the police!" or whatever he said, he woke me from a dead sleep and I actually opened the door. Stupid, I know now. It was a cheap lesson and I will never open the door until I look and see if they have ID to show me.<br><br>Bri<br>