Urban Camping from Times Square to the Car Tent | Design + Ideas. Car Tents to Times Square: Bold Acts of Urban Camping Article by Urbanist, filed under Urban Exploration in the Travel category. Urban camping means different things to different people, from living without a vehicle or electricity and plumbing to squatting in unused properties and more. However, the most popular definition of urban camping provided by the urban dictionary is: “camping in an urban setting by sleeping on rooftops, under bushes, and in public parks.”
Amid and Zach are two brave New Yorkers who picked the busiest and most high profile place they could think of to pitch their urban camp: Times Square, New York City. According to Zach, “We chose the traffic median at 44th Street because it is a wide island right in the middle of Times Sqaure with plenty of room for our tents to sprawl. It was noisy and bright, but the LEDs replaced the stars nicely, and the skyscrapers couldn’t have imitated sequoias any better. The Car Tent is a rather ingenious approach to urban camping. TWO-STORY CAMPING-CAR AND Round-the-Japan travels. Is only one in the world? Lift up! TWO-STORY CAMPING-CAR Reports on the handmade camper and around the Japan travels, from Japan.
Three we made a TWO-STORY CAMPINGCAR. Take time of two years. This story is September, 2001 from June, 1998. Owner changed! Living out of your Vehicle (Boondocking) You, too, can live in a van and wake up to a new view every morning. I want to introduce you to a new method of traveling called boon-docking. Actually it is not really new at all. The RV crowd has been doing it for a long time. Lots of outdoors people bought truck campers or RVs to drive to the woods to camp, hunt or fish. While they were there they said they were “boon-docking” because they were out in the woods and not hooked up to utilities. While they were on their way out to the woods, they discovered they could stop in a WalMart parking lot overnight to sleep and not have to pay for an RV park space rent. This also came to be know as ‘boon-docking.’
I learned about this quite by accident. Turns out I had also discovered a great way to travel. The editors of Road Junky have asked me to provide a short guide on the how-to’s to boon-docking, so take a read and learn how to access this great way to travel yourself. DIY Motorhomes.