I've been spending a lot of time sleeping in my truck. I have an apartment in Colorado's western slope (and a community of folks I love out there) but I've bee

I've been spending a lot of time sleeping in my truck. I have an apartment in Colorado's western slope (and a community of folks I love out there) but I've been doing a lot of sound-guy gigs in the front range, 7 hours away. TBH, I prefer to stay in my truck than be put up in a hotel room (which happens about 1/3 of the time on these gigs). I don't have to share it with coworkers and it's very comfortable. To be clear, that situation is way different than if I didn't have a place to go back to for a while. It's also way different in that I get paid really well for the work, and a lot of it is festival stuff where there are a lot of traveling folks anyhow. Most of the places I have been just feel so horrifically insecure. If I had to rate most of the places I've slept in the last 80 or so nights in my truck, the primary axis would be "how secure do I feel about not getting kicked off this spot". Followed shortly by "how secure do I feel about not getting robbed/shot/etc". I have only been rousted once, and that was because I was in a ski resort lot in Utah (I had a 3-day pass and was on my way to a gig). And that guy told me where in the little town I could park without getting hassled. So I might just be overly worried about getting kicked. I have a nice truck with window-less topper, so it is hard to tell there is anyone sleeping in it anyhow. After the last week of chilling in an industrial park near Denver (near a company I work for's warehouse) I spent last night on FS land near Colorado Springs, and it was super nice to not have to worry about getting asked to leave and to know that I more or less have a right to be on that land, as much as any other person here. All that is to say that I find this situation much easier in the west, where there is a whole lot of BLM/Forest Service land; having clearer ideas about safe places to stay is probably the best thing that would help folks who are wanting to live in vehicles. Maybe the article says that, but I don't have access.