Reddit reviews Guide to Free Campgrounds (Don Wright's Guide to Free Campgrounds)

Could be a long post but here it goes:

My dad has been voluntarily homeless for more than 10 years (His words: My wife told me to fuck off and I've been doing that ever since.) He has been this way since he was 57 years old. He learned it from his father...who retired and then traveled until he died when he was 72.

My father started with a fifth wheel camper...my grandfather's camper and truck he inherited upon my grandfather's death. He used this book: https://www.amazon.com/Guide-Free-Campgrounds-Don-Wrights/dp/0937877522

This was pre smart phones ... but he had a GPS.

Then he got tired of the fifth wheel and got a pop up slide in camper. He maintained a seasonal route where he made friends. Some really good friends...friends who have since settled down and now have a door yard for him to sleep in and an outlet for him to plug into.

He collected social security disability and now he collects social security and a pension.

His route is (was...he's now on dialysis and in one place) Slab City Salton Sea/Holtville CA from November until March. Then he'd move east to South Carolina to stay at Don's for a month. Then he'd move up to Virginia to stay on Bob's sister's farm. Then May he'd come to Connecticut then up to NY or Maine until September. Then he'd move back down to VA then to SC and then across to Cali. Some times he'd go to Yellowstone. He has the golden pass. Staying at National Parks was easy for him.

Now, I'm 43 and I've traveled over 70k miles these last 7 summers. I bought a copy of that book and got a homeless guy to come with me the first time. I paid his way for the security. I'm female and needed someone to keep an eye on things. We traveled by car and we tented, slept in ditches, in squats, etc.

Second year my now ex wife and I did the car and tent thing.

Third year my dad and I traveled in the dolphin. Some walmart parking, some boondogging. Some parks.

Fourth through seventh I've traveled with my new wife. We used www.freecampsites.net but the first two summers we traveled mainly to places I've already been. It took time to learn things and ways and how much time it took to get to places.