Posts Tagged ‘sleeping’
The Hardest Part
If there are other people out there reading this and considering their own transition to the home-free life–whether for personal, political, environmental or economic reasons–they might be inclined to ask, “what’s the hardest part?”
Well, I’ll be honest about what the hardest part for me is, mentally.
The hardest part is imagining sleeping without the usual degree of safety.
Good News in Santa Cruz
Great news regarding camping & parking in Santa Cruz–-apparently it’s easier than I thought.
I went down last weekend to visit and do some research on what being homeless there might be like. My first mission was to seek out parking and see if it was even possible to find permit-free overnight parking. On instinct, I immediately turned onto the industrial, north side of River Street as soon as I came off Highway One. Bingo! Almost all the streets were no parking 1AM-5AM, but I was able to find one or two small streets that allowed overnight parking without a permit.
Logistics
I have been plotting out the logistics of this experiment/adventure for a couple weeks now.
Originally I was hoping to be able to shed my car; however, on the advice of the Guide to Homelessness blog (see link to right), I decided otherwise. The author advocates having a car, even if it doesn’t run, as an escape from the weather and a place to store your things.
