Originally Posted by awc380
Come on guys....
Let's be honest with ourselves - maybe 'stealth' camping doesn't always have to be so furtive and important. The majority of people touring (at least on this forum) seems to be middle-aged men who, unless they work for the CIA or something, probably aren't being hunted while on tour. Discretion is definitely important, but out-and-out hiding from things??? If you try too hard to conceal yourself, you'll probably end up just looking more and more like you've done something wrong.
IMHO, that is.
My primary concern is to not be bothered by some (perhaps intoxicated) folks at o'two late o'clock am. How/where to set up depends upon a lot of factors.
I recall seeing a photo a solo tourist took in ?Kazakhstan of himself and two folks "who stopped by" a roadside shelter at some awefull late hour (lost the bookmark of the journal). The tourist had stayed in the shelter, rather than pitching his tent, because of a storm. The visitors were also drinking rather heavily. I couldn't imagine that as being a good restfull nites sleep.
Could happen anywhere in the world, the better choice would have been to set up camp well out of view of the shelter.