Pros:
- I need a camper shell. I can pick one up on craigslist for pretty cheap once I get paid next week. The cost of a camper shell is a flat investment and maybe one month's rent if it's new.
- My truck is small, but I can make a makeshift bed inside the camper shell and sleep in there at nights. A buddy and I slept in the back without a camper shell in Yosemite and it was comfy enough, even when it was freezing outside. San Diego doesn't get that cold outside and after studying homelessness, I know that the times where you can possibly die while sleeping outside are the times when the city opens the winter shelters (that's how the winter shelters started, with a homeless person dying while sleeping outside and city officials responding by calculating exactly when the temperatures fall from 'discomfort' level to 'possible death' levels)
- Since my truck is small, I can blend in well by parking on the streets. I'm also familiar with most of San Diego now since I've driven to practically every homeless shelter here
- I'm in San Diego and there's homeless everywhere. I doubt a cop would take the time to give me a ticket for sleeping in my vehicle when there's people obviously sleeping on the curb.
- I have all my camping equipment including sleeping bag and a mini camping stove.
- I have one weeks worth of clothes, which means I can easily fit everything into a small box.
- I'm paying about $600 a month on utilities and rent. While its relatively cheap, that's still like $20 a night. That's how much sleeping in a hostel costs.
- Worst case scenario is that I crash with friends / family in the area if it doesn't work out.
- My work has showers and since its a stereotypical non-profit, its mainly women working there. Except for one other guy, no one else really uses the guys' showers.
- Freedom to roam wherever! When I go climbing or hiking, I don't have to drive 'home'.
- Problem: Nowhere to use the facilities at nights and on weekends
- Possible Solution: Walmart or 24 hour fitness gym membership?
- Problem: Personal Hygiene
- Possible Solution: Keep 1 gallon of clean water at all times with a mini sink built-in that flushes into an empty 5 gallon tank?
- Problem: Nowhere to store my surfboard safely and I'd have to return my friend's rock climbing crashpad
- Possible Solution: ???
- Problem: My smell... (Sure, I'll just blame this one on being homeless...)
Schlafmanns like it!! If nothing else, you can say you tried it, which is sort of the point, right?? Let us know how it works out William!
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