Hey Chrome, For the sake of your viewers where do you recieve your mail mostly?? My guess is you get your mail at your shop? If a Van dweller had to rent a mailbox what kind of cost would that be???

When my mom was in the hospital for an extended stay I had a van dweller stay in her driveway. That way there was activity so it made her home less of a target for vandalism and theft. I told the police chief and the neighbors who knew her about it. It relieved me of worry about her home and the van dweller got to stay in one place for awhile. House or pet sitting is a side hustle for some people. Why not "house sit" in your own home? It worked well in our situation .

😂 that was a safe neighborhood, till some Weirdo shows up, parks, walks around the street talking to himself at 4:30 in the morning. I was hoping for a "What's up WEIRDO'S holler from the middle of the street. Love the channel, been watching for years.

A friend of mine got asked to move his bus, he had parked it out the front of HIS OWN HOUSE, the look of the vehicle bothered the neighbours and they assumed he was going to sleep in it and wasn't living in a house in the street. This was a quiet residential area. This is an awesome video Chrome taking people through the process of looking at the different types of areas. My first night as a vanlifer was right out the front of my pervious home , it had become tourist accommodation and I still had a 3 month residential parking permit so I quietly kept parking there and walking to work from there. Everyone knew my van but didn't know I wasn't still living in the house 😄

I may never have the opportunity to meet you Chrome. I want you to know that I find your channel extremely informative, and I love sharing in your van life adventures. Love to you, Cruzie, Emi and Kelly, from California.

OTR trucker for years, my hot shot f350 custom build exterior nice custom 3 axle trailer. 1 seat the rest tricked out per DOT rules allowed me to sleep almost anywhere as long as there was room for my 53' trailer. Walmarts, closed malls, off exit rural areas, I even would ask permission at Native reservations, never denied not once. Truckstops were of course designed for that as long as you shop in their store or eat in the cafe once per stop no problem. My big truck had a 6' sleeper and was nice custom paint job never denied anywhere. As long as you don't throw trash out or leave your pee bottle on the curb its ok just be respectful.

I live in a sticks and bricks. My neighborhood has a little motor home that is well kept moves often and doesn’t throw trash out we have a nice little park and he moves around the park keeps to himself so we tolerate him living in our neighborhood.

What a great idea to go scouting in the early morning hours! My neighbors tend to shout and scream at each other all night, so I've been thinking about stealth camping just so I can get some sleep!

You’re so right about ppl being so self involved that they don’t notice you. Hell, I used to worry about dressing up to go to the store. Then someone said, you think they even notice you? No… they’re too into their own moments. Now idc if I run into the store dressed sloppy (for me, which is dressy for others lol). No one will notice!

I have to avoid sidewalk parking as my pup is still getting used to noises when we are truck camping. If he barked at someone going past they might think a dog had been left in there and call the cops, so we go a bit further out of the way. 👍🏻

Even though I’m an apartment dweller, I love following your channel. You’re just naturally entertaining and inspirational. Maybe one day I’ll be living van life ❤❤ stay safe and have fun!! 🌼🙏🏼🌼

I’d rather have you park on my street to get sleep than have some of the neighbors I’ve had over the years. You MYOB. Some old neighbors of mine didn’t lol

You gotta think about highly dense apartment buildings with limited parking. Where I live there is limited parking and if someone is bitter about taking up parking in front of their apartment complex they may be willing to call the cops.

It's a lot more difficult in Southern California. Many cities don't even allow any parking unless you have a parking permit issued by the city.

Do you ( or does anyone else here) try to complete your cooking, dog walking, general outdoor activities elsewhere first, so as to minimize personal exposure once you’re at your evening parking spot of choice.

Great vid on stealth camping. I notice van dwellers all the time since watching van life KZfaqrs but that’s because I’m looking for it. Kinda like buying a car and suddenly noticing others in the same vehicle as yours. I like the guidelines you shared too, not squatting and being in the same spot more than once as well as following the parking signs.

Great video. Watching it makes me feel better about stealth camping in a city. Thanks for sharing and explaining what to look for. 🙂

Chrome, you're not going to wake up so early with the diesel engie,that will be alot of noise so early.

Well done!! This should make it easier for those overly concerned. I dont get a knock either; minivan with blackout window covers.

I love the idea of scouting out a place ahead of time. But I know if someone was driving slowly through my neighborhood at 4 in the morning, I'd wonder if they were scouting the place. How do you look inconspicuous?

Keep dropping knowledge on us Chrome! 💎 👍

Most people are not haters either.

I go car camping and stealth camp in residential areas. It's far easier in a car of course and safer for me out on my own, but I still use blackouts. Keeps the accommodation costs down and means I get to have a couple of days away from home because holidays are out. Great tips, this is the sort of attitude I take. :)

Starting up a diesel engine at 4am will certainly draw attention to yourself. The best thing i ever did was get rid of my diesel engine camper, and built a petrol van into my home on wheels.

Thank you . I may have a chance to live in my CRV. It's my dream .

With your huge VANLIFE sticker on your van you might as well have a sign on your van saying you are sleeping inside

You are the Best . What a great service you are providing with this...

Loving this one. Feels like old times at th ebeginning of your channel 💥

Love this type of video. Thanks! Hope to see more vids like this one!!!

Hey thanks Chrome for doing this video, overnight parking is definitely one of the things I thought about and maybe over thought lol I'm inspired. Tonight I'll go drive around and see what kind of parking I can come up with. Thanks Chrome, great work! 👍🙂

Great advice Chrome!!! Thank you for all you do and share!....Oh and hello from Cassidy!! 🇨🇦

I have heard on KZfaq. In some states they are cracking down on who stays in a parking spot parking lot or city streets. What truth it is I don't know. And I don't know how they can tell if anybody's in the vehicle or not without knocking lol.

Canada cities might just be easier to stealth-park anywhere. LA or New York City might be more challenging, for example, assuming anyone would want to park in those towns.

Super interesting and helping, Chrome. Cheers! I feel it’s slightly different in the UK of course, only because we have so much less space but all of your points still apply. Only difference I think is that in the UK if people saw reflectix they’d probably ask questions. But like you said, that could totally be me over thinking it. I tend not to put them up and just use curtains in built up areas

Nice one Chrome - back to basics - been 7 years now - stealth all the way - VW Crafter - (no roof vent) lol - no knock at night - Auckland City Central - New Zealand.

Yeah, I love this new content! I'm getting excited. I hope we get to meet you this year.

You always make me smile.😊 Look forward to seeing you on the road again!

Finding a spot on my cross Canada trip last year was easy, because I was moving on pretty much every day. Now that I’m back in Vancouver and going full time in two weeks, I’m still not worried. I’ve been scoping out local possibilities as I pack up my sticks & bricks. I never sleep in front of someone’s home. 🚐🇨🇦❤️

It's the beater RV that get the knock..

I’m like you. I can sleep soundly anywhere. And I have! Many a night next to busy streets or highways. Truck stops and rest areas (where the semi’s run their engines all night).

I have an older car I sleep in because I cannot find affordable housing. I'm a senior. My car doesn't have dark windows so I have to put window shades up at night. I park in 2 different shopping centers, one by a Walmart, where others also park at night, and the other shopping center is near a Taco Bell that stays open until 2 and 3 am. The one by Taco Bell is close to the storage where I keep my belongings.,, but if I need to sleep longer the other place works better, behind the mall area. I don't park on the street or near residential areas because people who live or work nearby notice you more easily, especially if your car looks "homeless". In the past I was actually on the street without a car for shelter and it was very harsh. I'd rather be dead than go back on the streets. By the way, I'm in Commifornia

I live in my Jeep Commander spring, summer, and fall. Have never had any problems parking. I live in Calgary.

Another point is to be respectful of the area. Don't be a dick and go to the bathroom in the bushes or cook and throw the scraps into the grass/bushes. Treat it like a camp site. Pack in/pack out. And sometimes, that's the hardest part-- Finding a spot to dump your trash

I liked the soundtrack in this video, I mean the birds singing early morning. About the cars parked in the industrial area, it could be night shift workers. But could it be workers that sleep at their workplace? They get out when the shift is done but they come back later and sleep on a cot? It would be a strange way to live without paying rent, and your boss and coworkers might think that they were always the first at work?

I know in our neighborhood if their is a strange vehicle, everyone knows.

Love the early morning bird chirps!

This looks like my home town! NV. Yup, I recognize exactly where you are. Love that A&W. It uaed to be drive in style.

Appreciate the video Chrome, Yep I’m watching

I sure appreciate your videos Chrome‼️😀✌🏼💜

Moving around early in the morning 4AM - 6AM will give you a better understanding of the world you live in. This is for anyone. Because the world wakes up to look at the unknown possibilities of that day. You get to see how they wake up.

Great commentary Chrome, spot on!

Love you buddy!! You look like your casing people cars and houses out. Lmao!!! Thanks for sharing though. Great info. ❤️🦋❤️🦋❤️🦋❤️🦋

I am considering living in a van. These videos are so helpful. Thanks Chrome!

i live like the next road over from that lumber store, it has alot of campervans on the side road near the bus depot, most of us are super chill and appreciate you're lifestyles, kinda wish i was out and about to randomly meet you on my travels. love your streams!

I sleep anywhere i want if they tell me to move i will move but it has never happened.Well there was this one time i was in a Sobeys parking lot eating dinner that i got from them and someone called the rcmp on me.

This is a great video! Thank you so much ❤

Great tips Chrome!

There's a town in usa that passed a unconstitutional law of no van or motorhomes allowed from 2am to 7am Which is bad deal. Boycotting that town is manitory. On street in whole town

Interesting information - it seems like "discovery" is being heard of more and more lately - it's always interesting to hear the tips & tricks others use to stay out of sight! Keep making memories & adventure on! ~Karen & Shannon WOY

Hi Chrome, love yours videos. You are the first one I check everyday. ❤🇨🇦✌️

OMG thanks Chrome. This video was so helpful. I don't sleep very well at Wal-Mart's. Loved this

Great pro tips Chrome thank you👍

I think you made the key statement,,,”it’s easy to overthink it….” Just do it,,,worst case, you get a knock from the cops at 2:30am and they tell you to move. I’m a retired cop of 30 years and I can tell you most cops don’t care if you are spending the night on the street. The only time they will bug you is if you camp out for a week, someone called or if you are spending the night in a high crime area.

Parking overnight is easy when i pull up to find a spot i look out for not parking in front of a fire hydrant, community mailbox. don't block a driveway or alley etc, If i can see a front door from my van it's ok to park as well. The last thing i look at is no parking signs & times.

Waving a hand from texas

Nice tips! 😊

Your Best Informative Video to date!!

Getting tougher and tougher to van life in the city it seems.

Great video Crome.

You see, it is important that your vehicle don,t look like a camping . My van was an ex handcrafter van. So i keep this look.

So amusing watching all the different areas, and editing transitions between areas., having grown up in the lower mainland and then explored quite a bit of the coast/island/province as an adult. The edit from Cowichan, direct to NVan was just too funny! I notice van(lifer)s all the time, but couldn't care less (so cool seeing all the different rigs around). I realize that others might care, but it's all NIMBYs, anyway...

People saying not in the usa are just making excuses i have friends that been vanlifers in the usa for 4 years + and never had a issue with park ups no cops nothing anyone that uses the whole ''not in the usa'' excuse hasn't really tried to stealth camp

We just had our Cherry Blossom festival here in DC. Absolutely beautiful tress

Hey Chrome, great video awesome tips, Hi Cruise.

What abt ventilation in that small space with all windows rolled up ?

I had a Chevy Conversion van and a astro Conversion van camped in both while on road trips slept in places people wouldn't think about

That makes sense do a recon mission to find the ideal spot Before you park there.

Chrome if you were parked outside an apartment building and there were other vans on the street and you got a knock at 2am would you open the door or pretend you weren't inside you could be in the apartment building?

Awesome video Chrome! I haven’t started vanlife yet, bug I can tell you that you’re 💯% correct. I couldn’t tell you from day to day what cars or vans or trucks park on the street outside of my apartment. The *only* card I notice are those that park across part of my driveway (ie: not fully in the designated parking spot) and make it hard for me to get out to the street. Even then, unless they’re a repeat offender, they’d soon be forgotten. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Hi. Chrome. Forgot to hit the Like and subscribe button the other day. Taking care of my mom and Forgot. The question I have is about the video editing submissions. Wondering if still on or on hold. Didn't see the link or video to download the work. Thank you. Take care.

Thank you so much for this video🙏🏽

people camping in one spot in the UK is a big problem, Here in New Brighton we have had campers and motor homes decend on the town (we are near the beach) and literally live on 1 street for months at a time, then they get moved so they all take up home in a car park again for months, they just stay there and dont move...the council has now made most of the area a no overnight parking because of this....its a shame, if they just moved around it would have been fine.

I’m so excited to stealth camp in my travato but the only thing is I sleep during the day because I work graveyard shift

This was really helpful, seeing it in the AM as opposed to at night. Great idea!

@21:00 that a step van aka bread truck... lunch box driver... :P

Excellent useful video thanks

I’m sorry in Massachusetts. There’s always somebody looking out the window. I think I’m in the wrong state.

I've been in my van for 6 mo this now. I honestly love it. My next goal is solar or a generator so I can have ac

Thanks for that video. It’s so needed. Even though you talk about it someone may be new.

Thanks for this video very good to know information.

😂 I slow down to check for Reflectix. I am a weirdo looking for other weirdos just to stay inspired.

Very informative. Thank you.

I predict this video will do well!!!

I think, technically, there's no such thing as "stealth camping." Just being quiet when it's time to be quiet, and being respectful of the area that you choose to put up your tent or park your vehicle.

That white box truck is a meat delivery truck…😂😂…that is what some city dweller thought of my van. With solar and roof vents. 😎…

I fell asleep in my van in Manzanita, OR and woke up to a knock and a $500 fine. Freaking outrageous revenue churning.

Love your stuff!

Great lesson thank you

Great Vid I found a hotel that been letting me sleep there forever even tho I switch up time to time

Please post link to curtain rails?