Living In My Truck

[Moxadox]

Had to move into the cab of my Chevy truck a couple of weeks ago for a number of reasons. I was very anxious about leaving my trailer, where I'm very comfortable and secure. I was terrified about sleeping in the truck and how that was going to work out.

Well, it did take some adjustment, both for me and my Doggess who is used to sleeping right next to me, and is now relegated to the back seat in the cab and separated from me by the seat backs, but we've both got it figured out now and it's fine.

It's amazing how adaptable humans (and dogs) are! I'm now visiting my mother, sleeping in my truck in her driveway. I much prefer the truck to the old musty bed in her house, her annoying cats and the drama of my dog always wanting to interact with the cats. Of course she thinks it odd that I prefer to sleep in my truck, but then I've always been weird so this is just one more weirdness!

Above all I'm grateful to have the truck to live in, until I get my trailer back, which may be a while. The biggest challenge is hot weather. I admit to using the diesel engine as a generator to run the AC. Not cheap. I'm OK for money right now so I can idle the engine for a few hours, costs me about $15 for an air-conditioned night! So I'm living the good life [emoji57]

The Dire Wolfess

 

[QinReno]

Dire wolves are tough. They can handle anything.

 

[John61CT]

Please, don't murder me

 

[highdesertranger]

dang what kind of diesel do you have I could idle mine for a couple of days on 15 bucks worth of fuel. highdesertranger

 

[QinReno]

Please, don't murder me

Wow, never heard of that one. 600 pounds of sin.
https://www.google.com/search?q=dire+wolf+lyrics

 

[John61CT]

Annotated http://artsites.ucsc.edu/GDead/agdl/direwolf.html

 

[Moxadox]

dang what kind of diesel do you have I could idle mine for a couple of days on 15 bucks worth of fuel. highdesertranger

Duramax. It sucks the stuff up.

The Dire Wolfess

 

[Moxadox]

Wow, never heard of that one. 600 pounds of sin.
https://www.google.com/search?q=dire+wolf+lyrics

Come on in! **Grin*!

The Dire Wolfess

 

[Moxadox]

Dire wolves are tough. They can handle anything.

Grrrrrrrin and bear it, baby!

The Dire Wolfess

 

[QinReno]

All in a day's work for a Dire She-Wolf, and the Alpha Female at that.

 

[Moxadox]

All in a day's work for a Dire She-Wolf, and the Alpha Female at that.

[emoji191]

The Dire Wolfess

 

[Dingfelder]

Good luck on your truck time and getting the trailer back. Sounds like some bad luck was involved.

Surprised you can be successful with the A/C. Different circumstances for me of course, but when I used A/C for an hour before night school way back in the day, it would run my battery way down.

 

[DLTooley]

I’m no longer full time but I’ve been sleeping under a bed cap for 8 years now. It works well for me.

 

[Moxadox]

Good luck on your truck time and getting the trailer back. Sounds like some bad luck was involved.

Surprised you can be successful with the A/C. Different circumstances for me of course, but when I used A/C for an hour before night school way back in the day, it would run my battery way down.

Thank you! I idle the engine...expensive, but it works. Yeah, I ran into some bad juju. Hope that's the end of it.

The Dire Wolfess

 

[Moxadox]

I’m no longer full time but I’ve been sleeping under a bed cap for 8 years now. It works well for me.

Yes! I slept under a cap on a cot for a couple of years. With a 130 lb solid black German Shepherd. I can't put a cap on this truck because I'm going to have my 5th wheel back eventually and don't have anywhere to store the cap. Don't want to put a tonneau cover on because eventually want to put an auxiliary fuel tank in the front of the bed, too much stuff! This too shall pass, and I'm grateful to have it.

The Dire Wolfess

 

[QinReno]

I just heard that they're holding up the Womens-RTR until MX gets there.

When I stopped in Death Valley coming north in March, the guy in the camp space next to me was literally sleeping in the back of his pickup under the tonneau cover. He had left the trailer in Seattle since his wife wasn't along on that trip. Some people will do anything to get away.

 

[crofter]

I used the back seat in my Silverado for sleeping, but it had an awful ridge that dug into my back. Then one day I took out the back seat and built a bunk in there - very comfy, and more storage underneath without the seat. I had the plywood and 2x4s cut at Home Depot and built it in their parking lot.   

Oh, and my AC was broken at the time, so I parked for late afternoon shade and that kept it cool enough for sleeping. ~crofter

 

[Moxadox]

That sounds fantastic! There's plenty of room back there....for my Malinois [emoji38]. She takes up the whole back seat. There are some mighty uncomfortable ridges on the edges of the front seats....good thing I can't start the chain saw! I suppose I could convince her to switch with me, if I wanted to sleep in the back seat instead...Now you've got me thinking....

The Dire Wolfess