Comments on: How To: Wild Camp Anywhere And Not Get Busted http://tomsbiketrip.com/2009/11/how-to-camp-anywhere-and-not-get-busted/ Adventure cycling since 2007 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:06:58 +0000 hourly 1 By: Bryan Keith http://tomsbiketrip.com/2009/11/how-to-camp-anywhere-and-not-get-busted/#comment-26176 Bryan Keith Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:12:13 +0000 http://tom.ride-earth.org.uk/?p=844#comment-26176 Haha, I got a laugh over the guys with guns in Laos. The worst I ever did was near a marijuana field in Chihuahua. Bad, bad timing for darkness. Bad, bad idea. We hid like the paranoid tourists that we were, and we were happy to get out of there in the morning. The only advice I would add to your post is to have a good lighting system. Spending the winter cycling in Albania and Greece, I seem to find myself looking for a place to camp in the dark each night. Sometimes a warm tea in a warm café is a great way to spend the first couple cold hours of darkness. Having good lights makes that a much more comfortable option. Haha, I got a laugh over the guys with guns in Laos. The worst I ever did was near a marijuana field in Chihuahua. Bad, bad timing for darkness. Bad, bad idea. We hid like the paranoid tourists that we were, and we were happy to get out of there in the morning.

The only advice I would add to your post is to have a good lighting system. Spending the winter cycling in Albania and Greece, I seem to find myself looking for a place to camp in the dark each night. Sometimes a warm tea in a warm café is a great way to spend the first couple cold hours of darkness. Having good lights makes that a much more comfortable option.

]]> By: Erwin Buse http://tomsbiketrip.com/2009/11/how-to-camp-anywhere-and-not-get-busted/#comment-11868 Erwin Buse Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:55:02 +0000 http://tom.ride-earth.org.uk/?p=844#comment-11868 Hi Jarrod, Thats funny I had the same experience in Laos. No coincidence cos I was staying in the same field as you. We sure had a nice time. I guess its more dangerous to step over a sign in Alaska "No tresspassing" and camp out there. They wouldn't be hunting for birds. Hi Jarrod, Thats funny I had the same experience in Laos. No coincidence cos I was staying in the same field as you. We sure had a nice time. I guess its more dangerous to step over a sign in Alaska “No tresspassing” and camp out there. They wouldn’t be hunting for birds.

]]> By: Jarrod Dellamarta http://tomsbiketrip.com/2009/11/how-to-camp-anywhere-and-not-get-busted/#comment-5207 Jarrod Dellamarta Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:30:19 +0000 http://tom.ride-earth.org.uk/?p=844#comment-5207 First visit to the site and I enjoyed the article. Funny you should say "humans don't roam the fields and forests at night brandishing lethal weapons" - I was free camping in a field in Southern Laos when I was warned in broken English to beware of guys with guns. I ignored the warning and went to sleep in my tent. Sure enough about midnight some guys with guns turned up blazing away. Luckily they were just shooting for birds and weren't interested in me! Cheers JD First visit to the site and I enjoyed the article. Funny you should say “humans don’t roam the fields and forests at night brandishing lethal weapons” — I was free camping in a field in Southern Laos when I was warned in broken English to beware of guys with guns. I ignored the warning and went to sleep in my tent. Sure enough about midnight some guys with guns turned up blazing away. Luckily they were just shooting for birds and weren’t interested in me!

Cheers
JD

]]> By: Rachel http://tomsbiketrip.com/2009/11/how-to-camp-anywhere-and-not-get-busted/#comment-5196 Rachel Tue, 12 Apr 2011 08:47:55 +0000 http://tom.ride-earth.org.uk/?p=844#comment-5196 Hey tom, Great article. Really useful for us. Pitching our tent is the one thing we are slightly anxious about on our upcoming expedition in Thailand (we leave in just under 2 weeks!). But your article has given good tips and in many ways will be a reminder to just relax and ask a local!! Thanks Rachel Hey tom,
Great article. Really useful for us. Pitching our tent is the one thing we are slightly anxious about on our upcoming expedition in Thailand (we leave in just under 2 weeks!). But your article has given good tips and in many ways will be a reminder to just relax and ask a local!!

Thanks
Rachel

]]> By: CurioRando http://tomsbiketrip.com/2009/11/how-to-camp-anywhere-and-not-get-busted/#comment-5138 CurioRando Mon, 11 Apr 2011 22:52:59 +0000 http://tom.ride-earth.org.uk/?p=844#comment-5138 Well conveyed: Hope more powerful than our fears. As college students touring ohio thirty years ago we asked a farmer for permission to sleep in his fields. He insisted on throwing our bikes into his pickup and taking us to his church's campground, for which he as caretaker had the key. It was an idyllic spot with a pond where we skinny-dipped, and swung from a rope falling into the water after a hard day's pedaling. Not sure who was more pleased, we at our good fortune or he at his opportunity to lend a hand. Well conveyed: Hope more powerful than our fears. As college students touring ohio thirty years ago we asked a farmer for permission to sleep in his fields. He insisted on throwing our bikes into his pickup and taking us to his church’s campground, for which he as caretaker had the key. It was an idyllic spot with a pond where we skinny-dipped, and swung from a rope falling into the water after a hard day’s pedaling.

Not sure who was more pleased, we at our good fortune or he at his opportunity to lend a hand.

]]> By: Alastair Humphreys http://tomsbiketrip.com/2009/11/how-to-camp-anywhere-and-not-get-busted/#comment-5115 Alastair Humphreys Mon, 11 Apr 2011 20:16:35 +0000 http://tom.ride-earth.org.uk/?p=844#comment-5115 Hear! Hear! Fabulous post, Tom. In case your readers think you are crazy and that wild camping is only for idiots, here is my own siren song of praise for nights out under the stars: http://www.alastairhumphreys.com/2011/03/praise-wild-camping-tents-trump-star-hotels-time/ Hear! Hear! Fabulous post, Tom.
In case your readers think you are crazy and that wild camping is only for idiots, here is my own siren song of praise for nights out under the stars: http://www.alastairhumphreys.com/2011/03/praise-wild-camping-tents-trump-star-hotels-time/

]]> By: Tom http://tomsbiketrip.com/2009/11/how-to-camp-anywhere-and-not-get-busted/#comment-1196 Tom Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:23:01 +0000 http://tom.ride-earth.org.uk/?p=844#comment-1196 I could not have put it better myself - "you might just help someone to trust people again" I could not have put it better myself — “you might just help someone to trust people again”

]]> By: james http://tomsbiketrip.com/2009/11/how-to-camp-anywhere-and-not-get-busted/#comment-1195 james Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:49:19 +0000 http://tom.ride-earth.org.uk/?p=844#comment-1195 Nicely put together Tom, honest and straight to the point. It's true isn't it - in some sense, we do each have a right, as people, to stay in a place and pass the night. To deny that is basically the same as denying another's right to drawing breath. Done respectfully and, as you say, if possible with local peoples consent, it's all good, and, especially in Europe/USA, can actually start to heal the massive amount of fear and paranoia that we have all learned to feel. So go for it, sleep out.......you might just help someone to trust people again. Nicely put together Tom, honest and straight to the point.

It’s true isn’t it — in some sense, we do each have a right, as people, to stay in a place and pass the night.

To deny that is basically the same as denying another’s right to drawing breath.

Done respectfully and, as you say, if possible with local peoples consent, it’s all good, and, especially in Europe/USA, can actually start to heal the massive amount of fear and paranoia that we have all learned to feel.

So go for it, sleep out.……you might just help someone to trust people again.

]]> By: Philip Smith http://tomsbiketrip.com/2009/11/how-to-camp-anywhere-and-not-get-busted/#comment-1194 Philip Smith Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:50:11 +0000 http://tom.ride-earth.org.uk/?p=844#comment-1194 Great article. I really admire your tenacity, and loved the pictures on your flickr site. Great stuff. Great article. I really admire your tenacity, and loved the pictures on your flickr site. Great stuff.

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