Winter Stealth Car Camping in a Walmart Parking Lot - Freezing Temps and Snow!

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Snowy Stealth Camping at Walmart – A Much-Needed Escape ❄️🚗
I had plans to camp elsewhere, but of course… more snow! With the storm rolling in, I had to pivot and ended up stealth camping in a Walmart parking lot—one that wasn’t even on iOverlander. That meant I had to be extra stealthy since it wasn’t a common spot for campers.
See I don't need a mortgage
And I'm on empty and times are hard
It is no secret among those of you guys who know me what I do. I go on a road trip and
Tonight is no different as I'm heading out to a hip camp, but per always there is a snowstorm
So guess where we end up so it is close to 11 o'clock. Oh, it's getting really close
So I need to run into Walmart and get some groceries before it closes. So let's go do that now
All right, I'm just gonna get my window covers up and then I'll tell you guys what is going on I
Have to be real this stealth camping at Walmart could be riskier than ones I've done in the past
All right, guys, so I'm just doing a quick little weather check here
So if you can see on my phone this whole area
There's like precipitation snow ice rain and a lot. I can't show you exactly where I am
This is not the most ideal Walmart. I really prefer to stay at Walmart's that are
More established whether on I overlander or something. Excuse me. You want it?
Yeah, I really find those situations a lot
Risky as far as parking because when you have trucks and just travelers in and out
Like on a busy road like off of an interstate
I find there's a lot less risky where this is a very quiet very small city
Tears, so that definitely does bring the risk factor of getting caught so that does bring it up
Usually when it's on I overlander, I feel like by then it's more established
But here I do not see any other vans there are no semis is very quiet and I
Think there's a few employee
Employees parked, but I think basically I'm gonna be the only one on the lot tonight
but I really do think the weather will play into our favor here because usually cops when there's snow and
Like ice and stuff. It seems like they're busy helping other people. There's no ordinances
Citywide against sleeping in cars
The only ordinances that I saw were like you can't sleep on the sidewalk in this city
You cannot park your car on the sidewalk you get in your dinner party
Parker's eating I
got an air fryer for the car and
Everything has changed
Here take it
Okay, so I think the fries are supposed to cook a little bit higher. So I'm gonna go ahead and
Put these and first
Because I am getting over being sick, and I just don't have an appetite
Yet, so I'm just gonna put like a few in here. I don't really need that many
So something that I'm also noticing is that having the air fryer on is actually generating a lot of heat
Okay, we're not quite done yet, but I'm just giving it a mid cook stir
What's that? Oh, I think I overdid it. Okay, I think we're done wait, no turn off off off off
All right, perfect. Oh, was that Thunder?
It sounded like fireworks or Thunder or a tire
Kabooming. So unfortunately, I don't have a plate
I just realized I do have a plate but it's in the cooler and it's under my other power station and
Parker's water and I'm not gonna go under there right now. So I'm just gonna eat out
the air fryer
It's fine. How innovative is that? I don't know what all this like mortgage talk is. See I don't need a mortgage
I just need an air fryer because when you have an air fryer, I have my kitchen. I have my entertainment center
It's like everything I have furniture. It's like it's a heater. I mean, it's like a multi-faceted product
Yeah, I mean I don't see why I need a house I mean I have everything that I need right here it's complete
Yeah mortgage smorgasbord
Get an air fryer. It's everything I need in life
right
Yeah
Perky, can we go potty?
All right, everybody well a snow has started to fall so
I'm gonna get this boy out before it gets too much worse
Can you take a break to put your sweater back on
Come here. I think you can
I'm very sorry. All right, so I'm trying to decide what to do about the weather tonight
It's like 30 degrees and I think it's going to be right around freezing tonight
And I'm kind of tempted to use my electric blanket
but my power station is at 63 and
I still want to use this tomorrow and I want to keep using my light
So I think I'm just gonna hold off on that and I'm just gonna do the sleeping bag inside of a sleeping bag tonight
There you go. First one's for you. Please don't yell at me
Underdog bless you
Take it you take it
How is that precious bird? How is that bird?
under duck
I
Have been doing some research here for the last several minutes I am
Research. I'm actually shopping. I'm beyond research. I am shopping for a fridge for the car
and so far the ones that I'm considering is
Dometic booze art booze RG
booze RV and
I don't know how to say it like
iceco
Icicle or something and just from like what I'm looking at
It looks like it looks like the Dometic is the highest ranked one
And I definitely like how it looks like it looks so good
But it's also the most expensive and so I'm just trying to figure out if it's worth it, I mean I would definitely
Pay more for it. Like if there was if it was gonna like last longer than the others
If you guys have any advice on this, could you please drop that in the comments?
Because I do see this like iceco one all the time
But I'm willing to pay more if the fridge is gonna last longer because it will be a process
To
get it and
Yeah, I would prefer not to have to switch it out really soon
So I have to decide which brand to get and then I also have to decide like what size to get
So I will be like measuring this whole area in here trying to determine the best size. So
Yeah, guys, I'm just doing some research here and the snow should be starting soon
After like what this winter was like, I feel like being here with this little snowstorm coming and it being
Around freezing. I feel like I'm in the Caribbean
This seriously, I'm not exaggerating. I'm not I'm not it feels tropical
It feels down right
Tropical I'm not gonna brush my teeth here because I know some of you all do not like that
But for the record I am brushing my teeth
All right, guys, so it's like an hour later
And the snow has definitely oh shoot. There's a guy in his truck right there, but it definitely started snowing
We've got snow on the ground. It's really windy
The snow is supposed to really start accumulating here over the next several hours and tomorrow morning
So I'm not quite sure what I'm gonna do, but we'll figure it out tomorrow. I'm getting really tired
He's all bedded down in on the sleeping bag and with the nano loft blanket
He will make him crawl up in my sleeping bag if he wants to
Definitely stay tuned because it could be a long night. I
Don't know if I don't think anybody's gonna bother me, but you know, we never know
So we'll have to see how much snow we get in the morning. So I'll see you in the morning
Still snowing
I'm gonna see if I can use these and the air fryer. I've never I've never tried that before but
We'll see. I
Feel so much better. I feel better
I'm happier in the car guys. I'm just I'm happier in the car. It's where I'm happy. It's where I feel good
having a really rough time lately
Really rough time lately just I
mean, I really hate to complain because I feel really blessed in some ways because I have I
Feel like I have like all this life to manage
but
You know, it just gets to a point where it's too much, you know
I mean, have you ever just spread yourself like so thin where it's just
Yeah, it's just as humans. We're not indispensable. We're just not we're not so
Yeah, I'm um, I'm making some plans guys. I'm making some plans my life. It's not gonna be like this forever, but
I'm making some plans
It's gonna be a little bit though. It's gonna be a little bit but I really appreciate you guys
Hanging with me. Um, well I get my life together. So
Yeah, oh, oh
Hey, okay, that looks pretty good
Okay, I think I can just eat it like that. I think that's done
I don't have anything to eat on it, but it's blueberry. So
Oh, I really wanted to make tea or something
But unfortunately, I can't find you know that little green thing
If you guys watch me, you probably know what I'm talking about, but I heat water up in
For some reason I can't find the lid to it
so
That's a no-go, but I'll just drink some water. It's okay. You are on high alert, bud
The storm is over in this area, so I need to get going
So I need to get back on the road get to where I want to go
So I will have to catch up with you guys in the next one. Thank you so much for tuning in
Thank you so much for being here. I appreciate each and every one of you and so does Parker. We love you guys
We'll see you on the next one. Bye
