whats your sketchy story of being woken up while overlanding/camping

[charlie brown]

so when out traveling some times you got to sleep at a sketchy place and every noise you wake up or you got a knock.

I know that the short time i have had my van and the several trips i have taken cross country, we have stayed out back of some gas stations or other places. I have had good luck but what about you? some desert places can give this unsettling feeling also.

 

[theycallmeWALLY]

@Adventure Endeavor Do you have anything to add?

 

[DesertGoat]

i dunno if it's sketchy but more like me just being a paranoid city slicker...

When I took my great big sabbatical road trip (Trip report) there was a section that I was running around in northern Montana checking out Glacier NP & a few other things. I got all worked up in my head about Grizzly bear encounters. I was sweating it enough that my friend in Bozeman hooked me up with some 9mm bear rounds for my pistol and I would sleep in my Roof Top Bear Taco (tent) with my can of bear spray & my loaded pistol.

I was 100% by myself for that section of the trip and let's just say that I woke up more than zero times with my gun out & me peaking out the windows of my tent, lol.
I must have looked like such a Jabronie.

 

[Cleandezert]

i dunno if it's sketchy but more like me just being a paranoid city slicker...

When I took my great big sabbatical road trip (Trip report) there was a section that I was running around in northern Montana checking out Glacier NP & a few other things. I got all worked up in my head about Grizzly bear encounters. I was sweating it enough that my friend in Bozeman hooked me up with some 9mm bear rounds for my pistol and I would sleep in my Roof Top Bear Taco (tent) with my can of bear spray & my loaded pistol.

I was 100% by myself for that section of the trip and let's just say that I woke up more than zero times with my gun out & me peaking out the windows of my tent, lol.
I must have looked like such a Jabronie.

this reminds me of a trip with friends up in Mammoth

We did an offroad trip up the 395 and one night camped up above the hot springs by mammoth in the trees. I am not fond of the idea of a tent on the ground where bears might be. So i was whining like a bitch about our camping spot. I ended up putting my tent inbetween 2 really large bushes that made a alcove, so 3 sides of my tent were surrounded and i felt pretty confident i wouldn't die... Meanwhile my buddy Corey kept giving me shit that bears would be through that night and i was going to get fucked up. Fast forward til the morning while drinking coffee, Corey comes out of his tent telling us he had to pull his gun out because something's nose was sniffing him through his tent. That is what he gets for trying to scare me... we figured it was the dog from a couple campsites away. lol