This allows you to search and route yourself to campgrounds, hiking trails, points of interest and businesses within the saved offline map area, even when you don't have service. To be more specific, before I get on the road on a long drive stretch or once I get to a place that I'm going to be spending more than one night in, there's some planning steps I take to find the spots I'd enjoy parking overnight at and they pretty much all involve maps:īecause the prettiest spots often are remote and without cell phone service, downloading an offline Google map of an area is great if you're going to be spending a few days or more in a national public land that has no cellphone service. I know, we wanderers don't really take too kindly to makin' plans but we sure do love our maps. What I learned from my event planning days that I've carried over to road life is to make plans that aren't concrete by researching your options so that when the time comes, you have the freedom to go with the flow and be all wild, free & loosey goosey without a worry in the world because your back up plan to your back up plan has a back up plan. However it's kinda more like that meat flavored tempeh instead of beef, in the way that there's looseness to plans in road life so planning is loose. So by now I'm sure you're all like "thanks for the vague motivational pep talk, Genevieve, but how the hell do I do all this hard work to find camp spots that aren't Walmart?" Well, this is the meat & potatoes of it. There's a reason that best things in life aren't easy and clearly Beyoncé never lived in a van, cause I feel that the look of a dirtbag vanner at sundown gives a whole new meaning to "I woke up like this”. It's all hard work and to the right people, it's all so worth it. I honestly can't really think of a single part of life on the road that is effortless or easy. Sure, every once in a blue moon, you'll stumble on a hidden gem of a boondock spot and post that gypsy heart stopping "look where I parked" geotag-less epic photo on instagram to make everyone think you effortlessly woke up like that er'day of that #vanlife but like 99.69% of the time you gots to work hard for that money shot view, whether it be finding it, getting to it or both. My friends, freedom also means you have the power to figure out how not to do the things you don't want to do, namely sleeping in Walmart parking lots!įinding really beautiful places to camp all the time takes time, effort and quite honestly, a good amount of hard work & dedication. Of course, why anybody would want to overnight at a Walmart when there are so many better opportunities is beyond us! We simply can't figure it out.Okay, don't you feel better? Now that that's over with, you know that whole freedom thing about road life that everyone is drawn to? Well the very definition of freedom is the power to act as one wants. Since the law was enacted in 1994-95 no property owner has ever been prosecuted for violation of this provision, nevertheless, otherwise RV friendly property owners would have been intimidated by the mere threat of legal sanction.” According to the earlier interpretation of a provision in the Tourist Accommodations Act, a private landowner who did not have a campground license was subject to prosecution if he/she allowed RVers who were members of the travelling public to park overnight on his/her property. “The Tourist Accommodations Act remains the law of the land in Nova Scotia, however, officials of the Nova Scotia Department of Tourism, Culture and Heritage have stated that RV owners, as well as landowners are not committing an offence by simply parking or allowing parking overnight of an RV in a parking lot (i.e.: shopping mall parking lots and other private property). They rescinded the law and wrote it off as a bad experience issuing the following report at the time. In June of 2010, the government realized what they had done wrong. James Parish Church near Port Dufferin, Nova Scotia.
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