Thank you for your response kryten! I am intressted in hearing everyones experience, and your response was super usefull
I have this far been thinking about keeping my van bland a bit tacky on the outside, just to keep off attention. My solarpanels are high up enough to be out of vision and I will soon install good blackout curtains. I have a lock for the steeringweel and I am concidering some other burgler alarm that is noisy as I dont actually have a dog.
There are two sides to the situation as a female traveller: I have been travelling in Portugal by my self for about 2 years and I felt safe in general. Some parts of me dont give a shit about being female, I just cut my hair short, wear baggy clothes and walk fast with heavy boots and always keep a knife with me. These things somehow just makes sense to me. My techiqe is to not give people a reason to think of me as vounrable. I have never come across any threats, only sleasy drunks that are usually just lonley and kind. Maybe I have been lucky. The situation with a van somehow makes me feel a bit more nervous, maybe becouse It involves more belongings and being less discrete...
I am still in Sweden and my plan is to mostly stand on WWOOF farms/friends projects as I go out in Europe. I just wanted to hear the experience of other rubbertramps.
Thank you and keep safe!
I have this far been thinking about keeping my van bland a bit tacky on the outside, just to keep off attention. My solarpanels are high up enough to be out of vision and I will soon install good blackout curtains. I have a lock for the steeringweel and I am concidering some other burgler alarm that is noisy as I dont actually have a dog.
There are two sides to the situation as a female traveller: I have been travelling in Portugal by my self for about 2 years and I felt safe in general. Some parts of me dont give a shit about being female, I just cut my hair short, wear baggy clothes and walk fast with heavy boots and always keep a knife with me. These things somehow just makes sense to me. My techiqe is to not give people a reason to think of me as vounrable. I have never come across any threats, only sleasy drunks that are usually just lonley and kind. Maybe I have been lucky. The situation with a van somehow makes me feel a bit more nervous, maybe becouse It involves more belongings and being less discrete...
I am still in Sweden and my plan is to mostly stand on WWOOF farms/friends projects as I go out in Europe. I just wanted to hear the experience of other rubbertramps.
Thank you and keep safe!