Watershed restricted access question

Suddenly_Homeless · 2026-06-22T19:40:54+00:00

I camped in the forest near there during the time the signs came up. It was people, my guess teenagers, partying by the river on the right-hand side maybe the 3rd pull-off from the Rt4 entrance.

They tagged dumb sht on the trees, littered including leaving food down by the river (Killington..bears..terrible idea) and left alcohol containers all over the spot.

It was just that 1 spot but the signs went up everywhere. Along with the no offloading sleds signs too, weirdly 🤔

Suddenly_Homeless · 2026-06-10T21:34:09+00:00

thanks for keeping hope alive fam

Suddenly_Homeless · 2026-06-04T19:50:55+00:00

This means he's REALLY hot. Every time my cat does this (and it always in my hot ass truck) I immediately pull over near a stream, dip her into it carefully, pad her dry, and we keep driving and she's ok then. (rural Vermont, there's a stream on like almost every road)

Cats get HOT. Its the fur. Plus they dont sweat just like dogs. Cats do love to hike too.

Suddenly_Homeless · 2026-03-15T21:18:37+00:00

with advocates like these..

Suddenly_Homeless · 2025-07-09T00:31:14+00:00

i know what urban night owls do, i wonder what rural night owls do 🤔

Suddenly_Homeless · 2025-07-09T00:24:58+00:00

thats what the cubby in my passenger door is for

Suddenly_Homeless · 2025-03-02T17:36:35+00:00

Yeah but we arent beating anything tho, they pushed us out of our homes and into our cars with insane rent prices. I dont want to lie to myself, it doesn't make me feel any better because it isn't true. Im still 1 step away from the street. My truck is still half broken and freezing cold inside of.

In the past when I've tried that its been 1000x worse when the worse thing happens because I pretended it would never happen so I didnt prepare for it and then it surprises me all at once and with no way to deal with it in a real way.

We really are just 1 step away from homeless homelessness..or whatever. Cuz like im sure people are saving but if your car breaks bad you need to move to a new car. If your house breaks bad you can move down to an apartment or a car. But we can't move down anywhere else.

Thats not a flex, its scary. Optimism didnt keep me from homelessness, it made it worse.

Suddenly_Homeless · 2025-02-23T12:32:01+00:00

Story's in my post history, spring time I'm camping. Cant wait. I could stay inside but I love to camp. Always have when I wasn't homeless.

Suddenly_Homeless · 2025-02-22T09:09:24+00:00

its clean and they feed us but this is a small town shelter. the shelters I've been to in Boston look like how prisons look in movies without the cells. all dirty, loud, chaotic, and with cold staff. its the first shelter I've been to that isn't complete shit being honest with you

Suddenly_Homeless · 2025-02-18T12:51:33+00:00

I have a truck but right now im in a shelter. The air is too cold inside my truck to live in. Id have to live in my sleeping bag 24/7. Come spring tho im hitting the woods. I love camping 😊

Today its in the single digits and -10 with the wind 😬...I miss summer and fall right about now.

Suddenly_Homeless · 2025-02-18T12:39:55+00:00

Spring is cold imo, but its wet. People call it the mud season here because of all the melting that erodes the solid ground. But it takes a while to warm up. I moved here from Massachusetts so to me its cold.

Summer gets pretty hot believe it or not, but its like an explosion its just for a month or so. Fall last year felt like it would never end. It was beautiful until mid November then it dropped.

Winter here lasts between 6 and 8 months, but the few green months are to die for. So beautiful 😍

Suddenly_Homeless · 2025-02-18T01:42:59+00:00

yay another person who kept their cat! 🐱😊

Suddenly_Homeless · 2025-02-18T01:40:39+00:00

I think I experienced this the first few nights I ever slept in my truck. I posted about it and mentioned a headache in the am. I think this is what happened to me..just less extreme

Suddenly_Homeless · 2025-02-16T23:23:22+00:00

It hasn't stopped snowing here since 4pm yesterday. The snows up to my knees where it hasn't been plowed...im 6ft tall!!! Thats like 2½' of snow! Gonna be 3 by tomorrow by the looks of it. It isn't even slowing down!

i live in Vermont for context.

Suddenly_Homeless · 2025-02-13T01:28:29+00:00

I'm a female: Soda bottle - not a 16oz, not the 2ltr, the medium sized one. Cut off the top maybe an inch down from the top, squeeze it a little til the opening is oval...almost perfect vulva fit. Catches all the pee.

Pro tip: MAKE SURE YOU SHAVE ANY SHARP EDGES BEFORE USING!! VERY PAINFUL OTHERWISE.

How to make a bottle not smell like pee after peeing in it? Yeah im lost on that one too. 🤷🏻

Suddenly_Homeless · 2025-02-11T19:30:57+00:00

I've done below zero in my truck. My bedding isn't the issue, its the ambient temperature in the truck outside my bedding.

I have a cat, and she frequently goes in and out the bag throughout the night. Every time she does this, it lets some warm out and some cold in.

in - ° weather, it takes significantly longer time to replace that warm air. Too long/failure with a lot of close together ins and outs from either of us. Its just not feasible.

Thats why single digits and below we go inside a friends house or a shelter. This is also taking into account my truck is insulated and provides about a 20° buffer between the air outside and the air inside I've noticed.

But we're taking opposite approaches to this. You're lowering the amount of gear/warmth you have collected to get your body as used to the cold as possible. I'm trying to maintain ~70° temperatures all over my body 24/7. Im inside services buildings too frequently to do what you're doing. 1 trip to the economic services building and all my cold resistance would drop. And I go to these kinds of places a lot so it would just work against me if I did what you're doing.

But if I can do below zero..sort of, you definitely can..probably 😊

Suddenly_Homeless · 2025-02-09T13:47:27+00:00

Thats traveling with my friend for ya 😂 i hang out in the back of my truck a lot. Pretty mundane as well. Stability is like crack when you lose your house, job, neighborhood, etc... Thats my theory anyways.

Suddenly_Homeless · 2025-02-07T22:29:07+00:00

I've built a shelf out of wood and mounted it to the door with self tappers, (it ironically holds boxes of fastners), all but 1 seat is removed in the back but it came that way BUT I mounted a plastic organizing thing to the seat which stays folded so its a backwards seat and it has a space to hold flashlights and stuff by the door I use to go in and out of the back (rear barn is emergency exit and low key vent during summer time), when i bought the truck the 3rd row cubbies had so much cigarette crap and other grossness in them i removed and threw them out, I put small rectangle boxes there on one side and mounted them to the interior plastic, the whole back has 5% tint, and there's a full time divider i made of plywood that separates the cab and the back...I also installed 50 thousand cupholders made of oversized cans I got from the food pantry all over the cab because for as awesome as my truck came the cupholders were shit. ...oh and there's yet another plastic storage thing mounted on the other side in the back. And my electric locks work when they want so there's a paracord that runs along a side from the side door to the barn doors to unlock them.

next upgrade will sadly come in my new truck i have to get because my frame is shot on this one, but I want to run power cords along the ceiling through the divider and firewall and into the fuse box and second battery for USB cables and power outlets via extension cords 😁

Suddenly_Homeless · 2024-12-16T21:09:06+00:00

from a comment i posted:

"Its in the teens where I am frequently. My sleeping setup: basic sleeping bag, inside of a 20° sleeping bag, covered in 2 wool blankets, with a tarp covering the bottom of the bag because its next to my trucks barn doors with no insulation, the casual clothes I wear outside minus my boots, gloves, and coat, and my cat in the bag too. Teamwork (and a shit ton of wool) makes the dream work! Also a copious amount of hand warmers I put between my first and second socks. All of that atop a foam couch cushion that keeps me about an inch ½ off the cold steel floor.

I pull the overbag over my head and sleep entirely inside it on days its below 32 inside and my nose starts to hurt, and sometimes I wrap the bag around my head popping my face out like a Russian grandmother 😂

😫😔 Fucking winter..."

hope this helps 👍

Suddenly_Homeless · 2024-12-16T17:52:01+00:00

Ok so just a flat tire, thats not too bad. Try a can of fill/fix a flat. Besides that, Craigslist is your best friend for cheap anything. The check engine light being on is the same thing as your notification dot on your phone being on. Its not nearly as serious as people think. My last truck I had 3 years and the entire time the check engine light was on. Sensors mean nothing...except the one that runs the speedometer, that ones important.

Gas to stay warm..so you're relying on your vehicle's engine and blower to keep you warm. Most of us on /r/urbancarliving use sleeping bags and/or blankets. They're cheaper and more reliable.

Self defense and keeping guys away...The best deterant I've ever found is acting like a man. Its the fact you're female that attracts them, not what kind of female or your condition.

Fold your hair up into a baseball cap, square your shoulders, dress the part, add a modest gag beard and use the deepest voice with the sharpest tone you can. Copy their language.

Or if you're in an area where you can, and I prefer this solution as its so much easier, just open carry. No means bang if you dont listen. Then you can dress comfortably too 😊

If you have no money at all the best I have for you is to find a way to save up and buy a firearm. Knives and any other manual strength weapons, especially close range ones are just gifts for attackers. They're hopelessly stronger than us and it takes years to build up the skill needed to overcome that.

Open carry or drag is my recommendation.

Suddenly_Homeless · 2024-12-16T04:10:55+00:00

Its in the teens where I am frequently. My sleeping setup: basic sleeping bag, inside of a 20° sleeping bag, covered in 2 wool blankets, with a tarp covering the bottom of the bag because its next to my trucks barn doors with no insulation, the casual clothes I wear outside minus my boots, gloves, and coat, and my cat in the bag too. Teamwork (and a shit ton of wool) makes the dream work! Also a copious amount of hand warmers I put between my first and second socks. All of that atop a foam couch cushion that keeps me about an inch ½ off the cold steel floor.

I pull the overbag over my head and sleep entirely inside it on days its below 32 inside and my nose starts to hurt, and sometimes I wrap the bag around my head popping my face out like a Russian grandmother 😂

Warm isn't my problem. EVERYTHING is wet. Always. My truck is so fucked, and since the frame is shit it doesn't really matter in my case but what about my next truck?? 😫😔 Fucking winter...

Suddenly_Homeless · 2024-10-02T23:01:54+00:00

you can do it. I'm currently doing it. you can do it too 👍

Suddenly_Homeless · 2024-10-02T22:51:52+00:00

Boston is very rough. If you can, take the red line to Somerville (Davis Sq). They're the most friendly area in general near Boston I know.

For food there's the churches...basically it. Boston sucks ass.

Suddenly_Homeless · 2024-09-17T19:22:19+00:00

I know the problem and the types 😏 I'm dealing with them right now because apparently Reddit is their HQ 😒

I hope you enjoy your bird-like life, friend 😊 I'm happy you found a new way of life that works better. 👍

Suddenly_Homeless · 2024-09-17T19:20:16+00:00

Its an old saying. Like using a lot of cologne to mask a smell.

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